3 poems (Transfer, Raspberries and Portrait) from poet Jason Olsen. Olsen currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan and teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University. Olsen earned his ...

  "Writing is not decanting of personality. The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned." Louise Glück from ...

It's that time of year again; shopping malls, egg nog and the incarnation. In this season that is focused on the divine, I find myself often consumed by the ...

Kalamazoo, Michigan. On the campus of Western Michigan University. Student union:

I have often thought of artists as the mirrors held up before the world. To some extent they are. They are the mirror on the wall you pass with ...

I was looking at a human body, a woman sliced in cross-sections no more than an inch thick and pressed between glass so that curious people like me could see ...

We all have an impression of the Beat Poets, but rarely do we associate religion with beat poetry. But maybe beat poetry and the story of Jesus have a simbiotic ...

A sacrament is an outward symbol, a visible sign of inner divine grace.  Traditionally, there are seven of these, ranging from baptism to confession to marriage.  But in Dancing After ...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. It doesn't make much sense, does it?   The book itself makes much more, though it is a bundle of paradoxes. Alexandra Fuller ...

Describe how heaven was when you first saw it or heard of it.  Now describe how heaven makes the earth come green in the spring when the soil is always ...