Review of The Possibility of America – David Dark
David Dark’s The Possibility of America is as foreboding as it is worthwhile. Read More …
Author: Paul Frank Spencer
Then We Had Arrived
We had arrived there on roads much like the only roads we had ever known. Read More …
A Lonely Dialogue
“Just Saturday it hit me. You know, I guess I’ve been feeling it for a while, just never put words to it. Death Cab for Cutie was what did it.” “That happens too much. You know the words, but one day the lyrics actually hit you. I know what you mean.” “No, it’s not that Read More …
Moving Through
She is a woman. Some might still call her young, though she has moved through it. She has seen too much life to be classed with those daughters. It takes more experience than you might suppose to wear black knowingly: to carry off a little darkness on her back: to proudly lead and remind the Read More …
God Blessed the Beauty
these words are the problemthis line and this phraseand thisthishereev-er-y-syl-la-blemuddies the studybut what is a poem with no humor hem or thread to holdthe tune or rhymethe rhythm and timethat we’d rather not seebut must be freelyseen as the stroke of a brushif spoken a gust leaving trails in the dustand intractable rust she bristles Read More …
Review of Bank on the Funeral – Matt Maeson
If dropping album sales are an indicator, more and more people prefer to listen to randomized playlists and top hit countdowns tailored by Spotify and other digital music providers. It would seem that fewer people are consuming entire albums at a time, from the first track to the last. If that is the case, I Read More …
Love Cuts Deep
singing praise before I could read the hymnal and my mother’s prayers before she passed cut the first furrows of unmerited grace grooves that ease the floods cut deeper by flowing waters a ditch less than a scar creates a path the path creates a run a run creek stream river singing praise full and Read More …
Review of Parables – Sapphira Olson
In the age of social media, it is not enough to have a pen name. In order to make people believe that such an author is legitimate, the publisher would naturally have to create a digital persona to go along with the pseudonym. Which brings me to today’s review. There is no such writer as Read More …
Review of Tow’rs
It is incumbent upon Christians to promote good art, which necessarily has to be honest, authentic, and vulnerable. Read More …
Review of Hoax – Kevin Garrett
If earlier successes with his EPs and Grammy-nominated collaboration with Beyonce were any indicator of his ability, it ought to be no surprise that Kevin Garrett would out-do himself with his first LP, Hoax, released March 22, 2019. In a single run-through of the 13-track album, Garrett’s strong musical sensibilities and range as a writer Read More …