Cleanse the Lens by Ken Deeks

I once had a difficult meeting with a student whose life had gone sour. Although I was powerless to change even a single detail about his circumstances, I could help him to see a little differently. I could help by asking where God was in their pain, and by guiding...

My Primal Wound by Jennifer Steel

My primal wound, Gushes out like a maddened volcano. Spilling and spewing forth red-hot lava Like blood down the sides of it’s own mountaintop. From far away, What a wondrous, miraculous sight to behold! Such awesome manifesto of heart’s inner core. My life’s...

Hostel by Kevin Miller

What does it mean when Hostel becomes the new mainstream, when what is essentially a slasher film unseats two relatively innocuous crowd pleasers like King Kong and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as the top-grossing movie in the land? Those were the first...

the desert answers by joram

apparently i am more of a romantic than i thought. i mean in the context of romantic versus realist, or cynic, and how i perceive the world. i am concerned with purpose and journeys, quests and questions of life. too bad for me having integrity means i will ask the...

adrift by joram

i struggle to rise out of bed; to step forward into the morass and bilge water of life. i feel as if i am tossed about without direction or purpose. i have no stars to chart any course with; and so i drift. as i drift i see other boats motoring around all over the...

CANADIAN RESPONSES TO “SOFT TORTURE” by ROBIN MATTHEWS

“Robin Mathews is a fighter poet, aggressive in his defense of human rights, expressing his nationalist vision with enough feeling to slash like a razor.” —Montreal Gazette Arguments about U.S. torture rage in Canada and elsewhere, especially elsewhere in the West....