Palm Beach Poetry Festival Delray Beach, Florida January 17 -22, 2011 Application Deadline: November 2, 2010 This festival offers intermediate and advanced workshops, craft talks, readings, and panels. The faculty includes poets Stuart Dischell, Jane Hirshfield, Thomas Lux, Heather McHugh, Vijay Seshadri, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. D. Wright, and Dean Young. Tuition is $725 […]
Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties, Part 2
October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday on SLR, Tom Carhart discussed his latest nonfiction release, Sacred Ties:From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War. Please enjoy the continuation of that conversation with SLR Contributor, Philip K. Jason, posted below. Are there any important distinctions you’d like to point out between a cadet’s West Point […]
Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties
October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
SLR Contributor Philip K. Jason was honored to interview military historian, West Point alum, and Vietnam veteran, Tom Carhart regarding his latest release, Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War. This factual account of six West Point soldiers fascinated us so much, we selected it as our October Read of the Month. […]
October Read of the Month – Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals, by Tom Carhart
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War Reviewed by Philip K. Jason Subtitled “From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War,” Sacred Ties, by Tom Carhart, aims to envision what is otherwise familiar material through a new lens. Though Civil […]
Killing Time by John Holloway and Ronald M. Gauthier
September 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
Review by Allen Mendenhall John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have written a thriller. Unlike other thrillers, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010) is not fiction. It is, in the authors’ words, “a true story” told in “narrative style.” There’s an old saying: reality is stranger than fiction. Here’s […]