"We wait for baseball all winter long," Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, "or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next. Maybe that's what poets do, too."

Poetry and baseball are occasions for well-put passion and expressive pondering, and just as passionate attention transforms the prose of everyday life into poetry, it also transforms this game we write about, play, or watch. Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in...

Understanding Nelson Algren traces the career of a writer best known for his novels The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. From Algren's first short stories through his final fiction, the posthumously published The Devil's Stocking, Brooke Horvath surveys the literary contributions of a writer known as the voice of America's dispossessed. Horvath offers an introduction to the life and work of the Chicagoan who wrote about the underclass in the Windy City and beyond, bringing to the fore their humanity and aspirations. He proposes that while it is appropriate to view Algren's...

This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett's best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: "Death of the Fox, The Succession," and "Entered from the Sun."
Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, "'To Dream of Kings': George Garrett's "The Succession""; Nicholas Delbanco, ""The Succession" A Novel of Elizabeth and James"; Joseph Dewey, "'A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks': Imagination, Faith, and Mistery in "Entered from the Sun""; R. H. W. Dillard, "The Elizabethan Novels: "Death of the Fox" and "The Succession""; Thomas Fleming, "The Historical...