Now and Then, Now is the second collection of stories from Margot Hover, whose earlier books on spirituality and health, family systems, and research in spiritual care established her reputation in the field of pastoral care. In these stories, her curiosity, humor and deep faith are shaped by her close observations and sensitive awareness of herself and the world around her.
Now and Then, Now by Margot Hover is available now.
Margot Hover, D.Min. ACPE/NACC Supervisor Emerita spent her pre-retirement career first as high school English and drama teacher, then as teaching chaplain at Dallas Parkland Hospital, Duke University, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and finally, working with pastors throughout rural Illinois and Missouri. She was foster parent for troubled teens before adopting two Cambodian refugee children, and is now proud grandmother of five. She currently ministers as a Spiritual Director. She lives at Pilgrim Place, a retirement community working for peace, justice, and care of the environment.
Email: maggiehpiper@gmail.com
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The altered volumes included in Book of Books by Tara Tavi contain stories nested within stories. The trapdoors are the books themselves, the stories they tell, the images they show and the physicality of a rectangular prism of printed tree leaves. We fall in, we envision the story, and we enter a third space - our experiences kinetically interacting with the ideas, our personal extrapolation on the words and the thoughts and images they conjure. The ideas resonate out into our daily life, creating new eddies of synchronicity.
Book of Books by Tara Tavi is available now.
Tara Tavi is a multimedia artist and musician who lives in Pomona, CA with her husband Sam McPheeters and cat Blitzen. She’s taught kindergarten and high school Art and believes, “We are all lanterns glowing briefly in the scheme of things. I want to know what illuminates us and what we are projecting out into the universe.”
Instagram: @taratavi
Email: taratavi@gmail.com
The fifty-two new poems in The Enormous Room by Richard Brown Lethem were written during the last two years as the author re-settled in Northern Maine after the Covid hiatus in Southern California.
This collection documents that transition, in particular, the radical quality of color in nature as an emotionally charged element as well as the inner movements in aging during this period.
The Enormous Room by Richard Brown Lethem is available now.
Richard Brown Lethem (b. 1932) has been living and thinking in paint on canvas since the 1950s, with results that have been categorized, more or less aptly, as abstraction, expressionism, figuration, social realism, surrealism, and allegory. Now in his 90s, Lethem’s imagery has become unified and direct, often consisting of a central form derived from nature, yet distilled by the visionary pressure of his attention into symbols directly drawn from his psychic landscape, and beamed into that of the viewer. Lethem’s first book on Bamboo Dart Press, Roots, Stones and Baggage, was a collection of paintings and poems spanning seven decades. A recent show of his paintings was on view at the Inman Gallery in Texas and he has an upcoming exhibit at The Claremont Lewis Museum in California.
