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POEMS WANTED! Enter Rapid River Magazine’s Annual Poetry Contest. 5 Winners! Prizes include: Tickets to local concerts; Tickets to the Opera, Mellow Mushroom Gift Certificates, and, books from Malaprops. Any unpublished poem, 35 lines or less is wanted. Deadline: May 31, 2015. Reading fee: $5 for three poems. The winningContinue Reading

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reviews by Marcianne Miller Postcards from Peru Written by Thomas Rain Crowe As readers of this column know, I am a big fan of Tuckasegee writer Thomas Rain Crowe. A man of indefatigable energy and many accomplishments, he’s authored 30-some books—poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including his extraordinary memoir, Zoro’s Field,Continue Reading

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reviews by Marcianne Miller While summer may be the time to pile up all your beach fiction and read until you’re washed out to sea, for me, it’s the season to read as many “information” books as I can. No agenda or required reading. Just topics that strike my fancy.Continue Reading

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Written by Dan Brown review by Marcianne Miller Even author Dan Brown himself can’t top his famous novel, The Da Vinci Code. How can you possibly come up with something better than a novel that claims to prove that Jesus Christ had children and the latest of his blood lineContinue Reading

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Reviews by Marcianne Miller Most summer reading lists are suggestions from the year’s “page-turning” fiction, books that I often put down half-way through. Why not spend the summer reading high-quality books that will stay with you all year long? Here are my suggestions for a wide variety of good summerContinue Reading

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A huge thank you to all who entered our 16th Annual Poetry Contest! We had more than 450 poems to choose from. First Place Winner: Joyful Marinara by Jim Reid Second Place Winner: Splitting Logs in Summer by Preston Woodruff Third Place Winner: New Year by Lewis Chambliss Honorable Mentions:Continue Reading

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Fighting Cancer with Poetry Written by James Navé review by Marcianne Miller Last week, I was in a vintage book store, looking for a book on crock-pot cooking, Two times a book in a nearby shelf caught my eye. It was a slim volume so it took up little roomContinue Reading

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Second Place “Splitting Logs in the Summer” By Preston Woodruff It’s sweat that lifts the log onto the block and stings the red-rimmed eyes that read the grain. It’s sweat that hoists the maul and swings the arc that slams a clanging wedge of iron and air and light intoContinue Reading