Merton as Mentor

  Father Louis: Gethsemani’s Creative Writing Teacher   By John Smelcer and Paul Pearson Common knowledge has it that Thomas Merton wrote extensively during his nearly three decades at the Abbey of Gethsemani. His writing included poetry. What most people...

Henry Giroux: Trump vs. Comey

Trump Versus Comey: The Politics of Lawlessness, Lying and Fake News   by Henry A. Giroux Contributing editor Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey as the director of the FBI has caused a firestorm around the country, but for the wrong reasons. Rather than see...

Jim Palombo/Ivanka as Attaché

AAA As Ivanka Hits the Public Service Road…   by Jim Palombo Politics Editor Ivanka Trump is having a difficult time detailing her seemingly duplicitous roles as corporate profit seeker and public service attaché.  And particularly in terms of the latter,...

Jordan Blum/Editor Interview

    Jordan Blum holds an MFA in fiction, teaches at several universities, and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Bookends Review, an independent creative arts journal. He’s also Associate Editor at Popmatters and a music and/or literature critic...

George Preston Nelson, Poetry

Through the “Door to the River” I See  AAA no Brechtian “earthquakes to come,’’ only cool Coltranian chromatic riffs ascending/descending  Giant Steps tween heaven and house, notes runnin-t-getha in clefs of black juice poured between strokes of the...