Through poetry, Jane Gilgun tells the story of one woman's life. Born in coastal Rhode Island, Jane galloped Sadie Cummings, a racehorse, on Narragansett Beach, fished off Beavertail, and tramped through the Spring Woods. She shows how the threads of childhood weave themselves throughout her life as a horsewoman, a nature enthusiast, a woman in love, a social worker, and a violence researcher. The final section of the book is a meditation on aging. Written in imagistic, lyric, and narrative styles, these poems convey the rhythms of a life fully lived--the sharp, often painful intrusions of...

Hannah Robinson, beautiful, strong-willed, defies her powerful father Rowland and marries the man she loves. The action takes places on a plantation in colonial Rhode Island in the mid 1700s. This two-act play is based on historical records and legends that are still told today.

Twelve year-old Fiona steals flowers from the garden of her 85 year-old neighbor Rose and gets into a lot of trouble. Rose and Fiona are at a stand-off, but they finally work out a deal that makes them both happy. A heart-warming story about a girl who yearns for beauty and an old woman who helps her to create it.

A mother and father swan stop traffic as they guide their newly hatched babies to the salt marsh on the other side of the Bundoran Road, outside of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. The way gets complicated, but the swans overcome all obstacles. The babies tumble one by one into the water and paddle off toward the sunset. They never even had swimming lessons

Luke realizes how wrong he had been about Aaron when it's almost two late. Luke once envied and hurt Aaron, but Aaron was not who Luke thought he was.

Love is a lion's tooth, the poet Yeats wrote. It's that and so much more. This collection of poems offers an experience of erotic love that begins with desire, moves to consummation, and does not end. The ghosts of past loves are with us as we swoop and glide on the updrafts and downdrafts of passion. How fortune are those who experience erotic love.

The poems in this short book celebrate God's presence in the world and in ourselves. I wrote most of them when I was a "none," meaning someone who did not go to church. I was spiritual but not religious. I longed for a Christian community, but I could not find one I could connect to. Finally, I did, less than three years ago. I hope people who read these words understand what I am trying to say.

The Red Doors Will Never Close is a performance of the St. John's Oral History Project. The Project took place between 2013 and 2017. In The Red Doors, the narrators tell stories about what many members today call the hard times of the 1970s and 1989s, when they think St. John's was in trouble because of loss of membership and financial hardship. The narrators, who were members during those years, tell a different story that they want known and remembered. The St. John's Oral History Project recorded the stories of persons who have been members of St. John's for varying lengths of times: from...