Starting in 1995, NPR's All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by -poetry DJ- Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a...

Lizendale is one of Catherine Bowman's first novels. Full of romance, steamy sex and dark violence, it is one of her favourites. Alexi Brandt is a strong young woman with certain gifts. She is unaware that she is not fully human until the night she turns eighteen and the man who is the other half of her soul looks into her eyes. Magni Tenoch knows he is not human. He is Talos, a race evolved far beyond human. They are able to manipulate energy and the very molecules that make up the world. He is just over two hundred years old and he is an enforcer. Enforcers hunt the criminals and deranged...