New at Nimble Spirit

Reflections on Literary Spirituality:
Why I Wrote The Seeker Academy as a Realistic Novel
by L. D. Gussin

The Western spiritual-based counterculture called variously new age, holistic, human potential (its first name), east-west, integral and mind-body-spirit took direct inspiration from major Western literary figures. Yet, during most of its fifty-year history, literary critics have dismissed it as a subject—even while, as a maker of meaning, the movement reaches many more people than do literary works.Read the essay

New Poems in the Nimble Spirit Poetry Gallery:

Martin Burke, Robert Elzy Cogswell, Kim M. Baker, Fred Allen, Tom Gibbs, Leonore Wilson, Duane Tucker

Review
Short Trip to the Edge by Scott Cairns

An acclaimed poet and a Baptist-raised convert to Greek Orthodoxy, Scott Cairns proves himself to be an engaging companion in this account of his pilgrimages to Mount Athos. His goal, to experience “genuine prayer, prayer of a sort I could only suspect, and desire” is a worthy and elusive one. Read the review

Review
Grace Period by Gerald Haslam

Gerald Haslam’s reputation as a writer seems to have limited general knowledge of his work to folks out West. Born in Bakersfield, California, he was raised in that state’s Great Central Valley, and much of his work has been set there. But, like writers such as Wendell Berry of Kentucky, Haslam takes on issues and situations that transcend specific places but are effectively grounded by the concreteness of those places because of the author’s love of his place and his ability to share it with readers who have no firsthand knowledge of it. Read the review