(Note: This week marks the beginning of a series on what New Bay Books authors are up to this summer. We can report that George Miller has been, as they say, getting it done.) The word basilica derives from ancient Roman architecture describing a church or large building. It is an apt title for the breadth of verse in Basilica, a newly published graphic anthology of poetry by southern Maryland writer George Miller. The 66-page book, 8.5x11 and suitable for the coffee table, is illustrated in...

Wilbert Bryant, a man of achievement himself, recalled his first meeting with former president George W. Bush. Bush was Texas governor then, traveling north with a notable entourage as he pondered a presidential run. “I saw this guy and all these guys surrounding him with ten-gallon hats. They were Texas Rangers,” Bryant told his standing-room-only audience at Captain Avery Museum. “I said, so you’re Gov. Bush. He said ‘Yes, I’m George Bush.' I said, I’m Wil Bryant, Virginia secretary of...

Photo by Martin Kuz ( Editor's note: Martin Kuz, a freelance journalist with whom I worked at Hearst Newspapers, returned recently from his latest reporting trip to Ukraine. Among the pieces he filed for his Substack readers was the tragic story of journalist Victoriia Roshchyna). by Martin Kuz A wreath of wheat hangs over the grave of Viktoriia Roshchyna in a cemetery in the heart of Kyiv. The golden ring hovers like the sun above a framed portrait of the murdered journalist that fronts her...