Arranged in four parts--each associated with a particular Louisiana city--the poems in Rhythm & Booze trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns. Mirroring the music of New Orleans, Kane's poems combine traditional form with improvisational flourishes. Rhythm & Booze charts her progress as she undertakes a number of journeys, from youth to experience, from blues bars to college classrooms, from city to country, from chaos to something approaching peace.

The best up and coming writers are all we feature in The Show Me Doctrine. This time our attention turns to the many wonders of Autumn in The Pumpkin Spice Edition. Read our selection of modern poets and let them delight you with wordplay. But that is not all we also have ten short stories inside. Snuggle up close with that special someone and live stories like ... Cheeseburgers and Werewolves: There are things out in those woods, boy, that a man can't rightly explain. People say they've seen creatures... half man, half animal that God himself done forgot about. Revenge: People strike back....

Wickedly clever Julie Kane is our 21st-century Dorothy Parker. Boldly upbeat, sassily downbeat, she's laugh-out-loud funny. In Paper Bullets the wry Kane serves wit to the lugubrious and fun to the platitudinous. There's a bon mot here for every sophisticate and rich humor for all who've forgotten that poetry knows how to tap the funny bone.
Molly Peacock
My ideal Ladies Poetry Group (if there were such a thing ) would consist of Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Wendy Cope. Non-participating onlookers might include Mary McCarthy, Pauline Kael, Gilda...