Eric Potter

Home Songs

Arts & Literature

“These poems are truly song-like. Whether sonnets or blank verse or some other meter, they draw on the resources of tradition and yet do so with supple ease. A new wife and new mother, Sarah Reardon is remarkably insightful as she meditates on the homes we find, the homes we make, and the home we long for. These poems are indeed ‘bright words pointing home.’”

My Barefoot Rank

Arts & Literature

“Barefoot and unadorned, these poems confide in an unpretentious voice. Eschewing ambition, largeness, notoriety, they accept the small, ordinary, and unkempt. And yet in their honest appraisal of our lives and ourselves, they can ‘become / a listening place, a place of transformation,’ reminding us of the necessary humility for grace, open to what can be found in the lost and the least, open to God.”

Sparrow

Fiction

“In Sparrow, Gary Porter tells the compelling story of a family fractured by addiction. While this story ultimately ends on a hopeful note, he does not sugar coat the characters or their situation. Instead, he offers a world of grit and grief and an unflinching portrayal of addiction. Set primarily in rural western Pennsylvania, the novel faithfully renders both the hard-pressed lives of the inhabitants and the beauties of the landscape.”