Poetry by Wim Alden Weary from the dayI take to my roomWith nothing left to fight but demons * * * I want distance from my head spaceFor it causes me troubleAnd sets me to worrying.My heart, on the other hand,Is warm and pulses with good intentions * * * Open though...
In November, the Cape Cod-based publisher Wrinkled Sea Press released Sidelong Glances, the debut poetry collection by prolific Counterpoint contributor Dennis Rivard. The volume’s unusual journey to publication began with a poem printed in a high school yearbook half...
Poetry by Wim Alden (Woodstock, VT) A more developed thoughtI cannot bearFather leads the wayWith hardly a sideways glanceBrother trudges onKeeping up, forging a duplicate trailI sink, I swimIt depends upon the day. *** My therapeutic home is adequateI have a bedThere...
Prose by Amanda Perry (North Hartland, VT) I walk through a darkened path only large enough for me to fit through. I move side to side, I feel the rough bark of the trees next to me. Turning my head toward the sky I see nothing but darkness. The trees are so dense and...
More than a decade has passed since the journalist Robert Whitaker authored the controversial exposé Anatomy of an Epidemic, which gathered reams of evidence in support of a central claim that psychiatric medication has hurt far more people than it has helped....