What if reading poetry could change you—not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act—not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility o...

Over the course of one year, Thomas Gardner records his runs. Fifty-two entries, none exceeding a paragraph. Each run is simultaneously captured in its precise moment and opened up to something timeless and limitless. Radiant acts of attention illuminate every page: we are in the runner's shoes, seeing the play of light and shade on the path ahead of us. Yet we are in the runner's mind, too: with spiritual improvisations that turn from the twinges of Gardner's body to meditations on grief ...

Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award - Honorable Mention for Essays (2023)In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscapes of our lives.The first time Tiffany Eberle Kriner walked the parcel of land that would become Root and Sky Farm its primary crop seemed to be chaos. Industrial a...

Agents Emily and Alex navigate a world of shadows and secrets as they uncover a global conspiracy orchestrated by the elusive Puppetmaster. As they chase leads across cities and battle shadowy organizations, the covert agency becomes a battleground of trust and betrayal. Unmasking the Puppetmaster reveals a high-stakes game within their ranks, and the dance with shadows takes unexpected turns.

In the heart of a bustling metropolis, Agent Alex Mercer receives a mysterious assignment that will thrust him into the treacherous world of international espionage. The only clue: a cryptic message left by a vanished colleague. As he delves into the shadows, he uncovers a web of deception that leads him from the neon-lit streets of the city to the remote corners of the globe."Shadows of Deception" is a gripping tale of espionage, betrayal, and the thin line between right and wrong...

"The achievement of 'Poverty Creek Journal' is precisely that it does retrace that kind of wandering--and, in so doing, makes something lovely and meaningful of a difficult year. Gardner does not go in for pat analogies; he does not claim, as Camus once did about soccer, that running taught him everything about death. Nor does he go in for pat consolation. His journal does not so much end as stop, as if he has simply not yet risen for the next morning's run." -- Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker