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June-July 2023

Poetry

A Litany for Ancestor Wisdom

In a world divorced / from knowledge that cannot be / parsed or proved Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry

Vermont Solstice

Light brighter than the sun / pierced the midsummer night. / Thunder on the mountain. James Hannon
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Letters from our readers. Staff
Reflection

A Visit to the Hector Meetinghouse

This is what it’s like to be part of a building that has a history behind it. Chester Freeman
June-July 2023 Books

War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

By Daniel Akst. Melville House, 2022. 368 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. An interview with the reviewer is included in our June…

Reviewed by Jean Parvin Bordewich

June-July 2023 Books

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

By Sergei Nikitin, translated by Suzanne Eade Roberts. Quacks Books, 2022. 385 pages. $15/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Reviewing Friends and Comrades was…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

June-July 2023 Books

Echoes from Wuhan: The Past as Prologue

By Gretchen Dykstra. Atmosphere Press, 2022. 414 pages. $18.95/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Many of us were not aware of the Chinese city…

Reviewed by Tom Head

June-July 2023 Books

Beyond Linear Thinking: Changing the Way We Live and Work (Third Edition)

By Linda Seger. Red Typewriter Press, 2022. 263 pages. $12.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. An interview with Linda Seger is included in the…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

June-July 2023 Books

What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer

By Anne Myles. Final Thursday Press, 2022. 60 pages. $14.95/paperback. I think the most startling revelation that came from this…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

June-July 2023 Books

Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-Duality

By Martin Wells. Mantra Books, 2022. 104 pages. $14.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. According to the author, these poems just appeared daily on…

Reviewed by James Foritano

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Finding Our Foundation: A History of Plumstead Friends Meeting

By Carol Ann Gray. Self-published, 2022. 218 pages. $21.99/paperback. Plumstead Meeting in Bucks County, Pa., is the focus of this…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Deborah Theado: A Life

By Theo Mace. Self-published, 2022. 149 pages. $8/paperback. As a combination biography and memoir written by the deceased subject’s former…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

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