Poetry. "Looking and observing are different. According to Wittgenstein, 'One observes in order to see what one would not see if one did not observe.' With that in mind, I would say that Roger Mitchell's poems are full of revelatory observations on nature, culture, and language. Breezy, skeptical, and elegiac by turn, in BRAID, Mitchell intertwines what's most elusive with what's closest at hand, and we come away from his work having seen very much indeed" -Elaine Equi.

In Delicate Bait, Roger Mitchell explores the small histories of the self in the larger world, intent on giving everything its just place and name. The poems roam over field and seashore and city, inventing a world so similar to the world itself/ it becomes the world. Whether musing on the past or searching for something even memory can't reach, Mitchell faces up to the wobble of most things human, with a combination of stoicism and wonder and a language as supple as the spoken word. Winner of the 2002 Akron Poetry Prize.

"This work focuses on the stories of several individuals who died while in custody to illustrate the long history of policy and practice that at best provides toothless regulation (often unfunded, or without accountable parties), and at worst is officially dismissive of the human lives lost, deliberately making it harder to get to the truth. The authors also tell the stories of activists and journalists, who have often been the ones making the greatest effort to uncover the true scope of deaths in custody"--

Poetry. "The poems in this book are full of sharp detail, words that seem like one-celled creatures with a life of their own, keen wit, and observations on 'getting the soul arranged in space' that cut to the chase. In these mostly short pieces, each tight as a fist and clear as a windowpane, Mitchell redefines love and nature, in a style that is a kind of meditative activism" - Terence Winch. "What emerges from Mitchell's original combination of glacial remove and after-shocked elegance is wry humor, a battered, haunted dignity and a chromatic timbre devoid of pretense" - Dean Young. "What makes much of [Mitchell's] work so memorable is the respect he has for language's slow workings. Though Mitchell's poems are often memory narratives, they are as much about our need for narrative as they are about any particular subject matter, and they are quiet poems never insisting on our attention" - James Harms.

This is the story of poet Roger Mitchell's unique and intriguing search through more than a century of historical threads, looking for "a simple, singular man." The ostensible subject of his inquiry, one Israel Johnson, was a nineteenth-century pioneer settler who lived deep in the Adirondack wilderness. Despite having developed patents for a type of sawmill that remained in use well into the twentieth century, which could have made him rich, Johnson was "no one in particular," an everyman who died penniless, very nearly lost in the mists of time. Roger Mitchell's painstaking search to reconstruct Johnson's life led into people's homes and family memories, into countless libraries, courthouses, and graveyards, into the National Archives, and far more. The story here is of the finding, as much as it is of the found. And the acts by which it was accomplished have the reassuring and preserving quality of memory, both individual and collective. The story of Clear Pond puts a small island in the scream of time; and while it certainly does not stop time, it makes time go around it.

ISRAEL IS FOREVER! The Hamas and Isis Crisis The Future Revealed Hamas, Hamas Why must you cry? Hamas, Hamas Why must you make so many die? Hamas, Hamas Did I not give Ishmael his land? Hamas, Hamas Will I not cause Jacob to stand? Hamas, Hamas Why dont you stay within the borders? Many years ago, Roger Mitchell found his way from the streets of Cincinnati to the arms of Yahweh, the mighty Creator. In his first collection of inspirational poetry, he searches mysteries, ponders lifes challenges, and explores deeper levels of truth while leading others on an exciting journey toward The Greatest Lover Ever Known Mitchell relies on thought provoking treasured truth to share a message of hope through unending love of a Father and all His Glory now and forevermore due His Holy Name.

What constitutes a 'conflict' between human groups, organisations or countries? How do people perceive and behave in conflicts? How do conflicts come to an end and what part can outsiders play in settling them or making them less damaging? The present work seeks to answer such questions.

In Half/Mask, Roger Mitchell goes in search of the magic that remains when the world is stripped down to an inhospitable beauty. Many of these starkly lyrical poems explore the human and natural communities found on tundra and borrow freely from the great narrative and sculptural traditions of the Inuit and other rugged people who have learned to live intensely under challenging conditions. Whether in the High Arctic or in different places where human life . . . has a loose fit, Mitchell discovers a land rich in imagery and metaphor for describing experience at a fundamental level, out at the edge of what we can know: Alone and far away, remote, a step / or two beyond human, real being. An effort to understand and sympathetically inhabit the earth drives these poems, even in the barren isolation of their settings, and gives to Half/Mask its emotional resonance.

This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics. It does so by identifying two conflicting streams in Christianity: the love stream that the stories of Jesus portray and many of us desire to follow, and the sovereignty system that much of theology, church, and mission represents. Explaining how the two streams arose in early Western history, The Fall of the Church demonstrates that far from being complementary expressions of Christianity, the sovereignty stream embodies the very system that the Jesus of the gospels opposed. The fall of the church is described in terms of its embrace of the sovereignty system and the subsequent history of the West is explained as the story of the resulting partnership. If transcendence is truly like Jesus, then, rather than abandoning the empire system, God has remained within the church and empire in order to empty it out from the inside. Mitchell argues that this divine strategy has continued throughout the history of the West and is coming to a head, right now, in our contemporary Western world, and that the time is ripe for an incarnational politics of love.