Author Kevin Fenton

In her second collection of poems, Patricia Hampl addresses the classical themes of beauty and love, loss and memory, in  a series of shorter poems and then in the long title poem. Set in a small, tumbledown cabin on the… Continue Reading →

In her first book (a collection of poems), Patricia Hampl establishes the themes and preoccupations that would come to define her work in poetry and prose in the next decades: her Minnesota upbringing, her Czech and Catholic heritage, love and… Continue Reading →

Balancing precariously between history and literature, memoir writers have finally found their place on the bookshelf. But increased notoriety brings intense scrutiny: memoirists are expected to create a narrative worthy of fiction while also staying true to the facts. Historians,… Continue Reading →

This anthology of sacred poetry from the three great monotheistic religions of the West–Christianity, Judaism, Islam-presents luminous offerings by such disparate voices as Francis of Assisi, Yehuda Amichai, William Blake, Rumi, Louise Erdrich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maria Tsvetaeva, Sylvia Plath,… Continue Reading →

F Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighborhood hijinks. These stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, pit a poor boy with energy and intelligence against the upper… Continue Reading →