The study of narratives in a variety of disciplines has grown in recent years as a method of better explaining underlying concepts in their respective fields. Through the use of Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), political scientists can analyze the role narrative plays in political discourse.

The study of narratives in a variety of disciplines has grown in recent years as a method of better explaining underlying concepts in their respective fields. Through the use of Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), political scientists can analyze the role narrative plays in political discourse.

Unlikely Trees is a collection that explores. It travels on foot, by car, bus, plane, and ship. Yet, it is through people, places, and things which the poems work to discover the better part of our humanity- faithfulness, love, compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, hope and perseverance. It possesses an image-bearing intensity that often allows for small and common things (like a morning bus ride or a leaf) to become expansive, luminous and transformative; and reduces the seemingly overwhelming to basic elements. Michael Jones poems possess a sensibility that is associative and offer a...

Overtime and The Dance is a fascinating collection of poems that embrace and reflect on life's largess: the richness of empathy in exploring our relationship with our physical, and more than physical, world; the confluence where moments foreshadow and guide other moments, decline occasions new growth, and absence provides a new presence.