Maxwell James Bennett writes fiction, poetry, and philosophical reflection that explore love, memory, violence, beauty, faith, society, and the quiet distance between the self and the world.

His newest collection, From the Porch, invites readers to step onto a metaphorical porch and look outward with naked eyes, moving through lighthouses, villages, factories, castles, and fractured histories in search of what must be faced, questioned, and eventually outgrown.