The Pain of the World
The book "The pain of the world" by Sasa Milivojev is a poetic masterpiece that delves into the essence of human suffering and trauma worldwide. Through verses in English, Serbian and Arabic, Milivojev explores not only the pain of individuals but also the collective suffering of humanity. His poetry is not just a reflection of reality but also a catalyst for change - a call for empathy, understanding, and action in creating a better world. Through this collection, Milivojev reminds us of our common humanity and responsibility towards all who suffer, emphasizing the importance of dialogue and solidarity as a path to true understanding and healing.Sasa Milivojev is a famous writer, poet, journalist, columnist, and political analyst. One of the most read columnists in Serbia, he is the author of seven books, and numerous columns published in various daily newspapers. He is the author of the novel "The Boy from the Yellow House" and of political speeches. His work has been translated into around twenty languages across the world.In an interview with the weekly "Express," Sasa Milivojev reveals details of the themes in "The Pain of the World" "A poet has no right to beautify reality but to be an honest witness of the times. It is easy to write about beautiful nature, the sound of the sea, birds on the branch, fairy-tale beaches, and violets, but... Life is not a fairy tale. If we keep silent about horrific crimes, they will be repeated in the future. As a poet, I feel obliged to explore and express reality as it is, without beautifying or avoiding those parts that are painful or unpleasant. My poetry is not just a reflection of reality, but a call to action - a call for compassion, understanding, and engagement in creating a better world for all of us.Although it is depressing, terrifying, heavy, a horror story, I hope that readers will find their place in these verses, that they will be emotionally struck and inspired to think about broader social and philosophical issues, to think about what each of us can do to change the world we live in. 'The Pain of the World' is a work that strives to connect people and encourage dialogue about universal themes that affect us all, regardless of our different life circumstances. I want 'The Pain of the World' to be an experience that will leave a lasting impression and inspire people to view the world from different perspectives.People need to be served all these images of a terrible world, in the hope that by observing such images we will want to change something, to become better people. This is a way to evoke empathy and compassion for all people going through difficult times. The concept of Weltschmerz denotes a feeling of melancholy and sadness that arises from the awareness of the world's imperfections and the incompatibility between reality and idealism. The title 'The Pain of the World' reflects a sense of deep suffering and disappointment about the state of the world. My poetry is not just a personal cry, a personal pain, but a collective one, a cry of all people on the planet who feel sorrow, helplessness, and anger because of the injustice or suffering that the world experiences. This is a universal human epic about the sufferings of people."
Women's Live`s
Women's Lives by Ellis Janzon tells the quiet, powerful story of two women-Nelly and Mina-through a series of poems that cross generations. Their voices rise from the past, speaking of hardship, strength, and choices made in silence. What did they carry? What did they lose? And what do their lives reveal about our own? As filtered images shape the world today, Ellis Janzon gently turns our gaze backward-toward real women, real work, and the deep roots of progress. Women's Lives is both a remembrance and a mirror, inviting us to listen closely to the ones who came before... and to find something unique in what they left behind.
Bottle Flute
This collection of poetry ponders a question that has been plaguing humanity for centuries.The love we pursue is it an overwhelming sentiment or illness manifesting itself? This book is a cautionary tale using love testimonies as entrails.
Songs From A Broken Heart
These poems carry the weight of heartbreak and the lightness of hope, woven into a love that feels eternal. They speak of scars healed, promises reborn, and the strength found in another's embrace.Every word is a reflection of pain turned into beauty. This is not just love-it's salvation.
The Negroes Send Their Love
An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. "How big is a home?" "What is space without reaching?" "You ever think about being remembered?"Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill's new collection is rooted in our shared history, lived experience, and a speculative future. It considers how we fashion identities through formative relationships with history and community, with our ancestors, our children, and ourselves. These connections underscore our ties to nature and emphasize humanity's seemingly inevitable turn to violence. For instance, a meditation on the white-headed woodpecker connects to knowledge of Black miners in nineteenth century Roslyn, Washington, and sparks an understanding of white-headed woodpeckers as "arboreal miners" with "a patch of red feathers / on the back of their crowns" that the speaker observes and "can't help but see blood." This collection ranges in setting from antebellum Georgia to twenty-first century Alaska, from the Wild West to the Asteroid Belt in the twenty-fifth century. The exploration of people in relation to place excavates the complexity of heritage and privilege, fatherhood amid environmental collapse, and the inherited memories, abilities, hardships, and love that link Black people living centuries apart. Taken together, these poems, queries, and possibilities paint a sensibility that strives to integrate itself into the known world, and through that world into an imagined future. In searching for answers that almost arrive, The Negroes Send Their Love reveals a heart as big as the home it seeks.
Pie recipes
Content warnings are rarely needed in cookbooks, but in this case, they might be worth considering. This is not a traditional cookbook, even though it desperately tries to be one. The moment a person starts collecting cookbooks, life must be going pretty well but this cookbook is actually perfect for those whose lives are a complete mess. Moreover, it focuses solely on blueberry pie recipes, with little success. However, these blueberry pie recipes manage to capture something about humanity, loneliness, the journey of becoming a person, and occasionally, with a subtle flirting with occultism.
The Song of the Cosmos
These translations by Piette and Leh籀czky form a five-year long project with an ambition to translate a significant selection of the poems of the modernist, socialist, working-class Hungarian poet, Attila J籀zsef (1905-1937), one of the most celebrated and loved poets of the 20th century in Hungary. He lived a poverty-stricken, passionate and unstable life as a wanderer, a bohemian, a poet, a thinker, a non-conformist, a hobo and a lover until his untimely death by suicide, struck by a train, in Balatonsz獺rsz籀 on Lake Balaton, aged only 32. His poetry is surrealist, existentialist, Villonesque, tough-minded, quasi anarchist, deeply drenched in Hungarian folklore and the folk song, passionate, lyrical, elegiac, marked by his solitary wandering, his keen observation of the lives of the people, by his psychoanalytically inflected gaze into the unconscious, into the mind and body of lovers, his philosophical focus on dialectic and social injustice. The lyrics, free verse and formal, in an astonishing number of experimental forms, range from the metaphysical to the memoir, have filiations to French medieval, post-symbolist and surrealist poetry, fuse Nietzsche, Marx, Hegel and Freud in daring raids on the inarticulate, sing with haunting vernacular and ancient beauty and rise to extraordinary heights and flights of the imagination, yet are always grounded in the real, in the concrete particulars of the metropolis, the dark streets of the underclasses of this world.This bilingual volume presents a chronological selection of Attila J籀zsef's poetry, featuring both English translations and the original Hungarian texts from B矇la Stoll's 2005 edition. It provides crucial context for readers. With introductions by George Szirtes, Gy繹rgy Tverdota, and Aranka Kem矇ny, the collection aims to recreate 'The Song of the Cosmos', an unpublished collection J籀zsef envisioned in the early 1920s. What does the song of the cosmos refer to? Who sings to whom and about what? 'Cosmos' here isn't the physical universe but rather the soul expanded to cosmic proportions, a 'universe imbued with a political subject'. In the sonnet cycle, J籀zsef thus wanted to sing the song of the cosmic soul, as a lyrical outpouring of the cosmos and as a song of the human species, channelling cosmic forces and singing as global collective, as global consciousness, a planetary cosmos speaking about and for itself. The volume incorporates a faithful and playful reconstruction of the original graphic design, conceived by J籀zsef's artist friend Gy繹rgy B矇keffi in the 1920s. Mikl籀s Ferencz executed the reconstruction of the original book design specifically for this edition. The final section of the book includes ekphrastic 'guest poems' by George Szirtes, Istv獺n V繹r繹s, Adam Piette and ?gnes Leh籀czky, each creating an imaginary account exploring different possibilities and scenarios of what ifs each playing on one of J籀zsef's final poem 'There, I've found my home at last...'. What if Attila J籀zsef had not met his own tragic end in December 1937, Balatonsz獺rsz籀? I generate my brand of lovefeet they stand on strange planetsfrom all the gods I take my leavemy heart is steadfast & alivehere I in my light white shirt(from 'light white shirt', 1937)
Under the Lemon Tree
Under the Lemon Tree is the deconstruction of all the things you scream and cry when you learn to love. Free falling into addiction of affection; to hurt over and over again and do so for so long you look back and reflect on all the hurt and desperate attempts for affection that have fed you lessons to learn from. Under the Lemon Tree is hurtful because it has to be, because if love is anything it's the hurt we share with one another. This collection of poetry is the guide through the gentle games of control and care we play with one another. The author's personal memoir of holding hands with people he either shouldn't have, or couldn't have for as long as he had wanted to. Love is fickle and fragile. Under the Lemon Tree examines love from a perspective of "that was then, I feel it now"; where the heartstrings of your past have already snapped. Our hearts break sometimes, sometimes so badly the healing touch of love suddenly pulverizes it. Love is painful, but Under the Lemon Tree teaches us to care for what's left of us. I wrote some of these when I was 13, I wrote some of these recently, I hope you join me, Under the Lemon Tree.
Fragile July
Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a prose-poem of obsessive reconstruction, circling a single childhood summer in which the ordinary textures of suburbia, garden games, disposable-camera snapshots, pop songs, and family rituals begin to feel charged with threat. Built from repetition, incremental shifts, and documentary attention to objects and photographs, the text tests how memory hardens into narrative, how evidence both clarifies and corrupts, and how dread can arrive retrospectively as a structure imposed on the past. Its atmosphere is uncanny rather than overtly surreal, with domestic scenes tightening around pits, locked spaces, missing rooms, and half-seen figures at windows, while the book's origin in performance and installation gives its visual material a parallel weight, making image and recollection contend for authority.
Whispers of the Soul
Whispers of the Soul is an intimate and raw collection of poetry by Lydia Hawke, crafted for the "quiet heart that feels deeply but speaks softly". Within these pages, the author gives a voice to the hidden emotions, swallowed words, and silent feelings that linger in the human experience. Spanning themes from the ethereal to the visceral, the collection serves as a poignant reminder that even in our most isolated moments, the soul is never truly alone.The journey begins with reflections on the "connecting link between heaven and earth"-love-and moves through the stygian depths of the "Crimson Comtesse of Cruelty". Hawke masterfully balances the light and the dark, exploring the fragility of existence in "Don't Believe Everything You Breathe" and the heavy permanence of loss in "A Memory Storm Flickers On".Readers will encounter a diverse landscape of internal and external worlds: The Weight of Mortality: Raw accounts of illness and grief in poems like "Chemotherapy" and "The Intimacy of Death".Nature's Power: From the fierce lashing of a "Tornado" to the quiet "Dusk Of Coral Jasmines" and the rhythmic "Lanterns On The Beach".Human Resilience: The enduring spirit found in "Bent, But Not Broken" and the pursuit of a "Better Life".Spiritual Discovery: A concluding "Walk With Jesus" that explores healing through faith and the realization that the divine is present in every bird, tree, and whisper of the wind.
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Mystery of Misery [Gents' Edition]
Mystery of Misery is a long form confessional written by a fragmented boy with the mind of a middle aged man. Consummated in abandonment, addiction, faith, and masculine fracture, moving from family wounds to social collapse to metaphysical questioning. Misery is treated as discipline, survival as testimony, and belief as something argued with rather than inherited.
Keeping Room
I was left breathless time and again by the wisdom and breadth of the hard-won, deftly crafted poetry in Ann Wallace's Keeping Room. By turns harrowing and heartening, her poems of illness and recovery urge us toward nature and our own human nature of resilience and renewal. Keeping Room invites us all to open a little more than is comfortable to the pull of this difficult world, holding space for the paradox that "disruption and love equal joy."- James Crews, author of Turning Toward Grief and Breathing Room
Remember the Good
In these honest and tender poems, Felicia Zuniga traces the moments that shape a life-girlhood in the '90s, adolescence in the 2000s, the sweetness and sting of first love, the ache of heartbreak, the wonder of new beginnings, and the joys and struggles of marriage and motherhood. With sharp detail and quiet vulnerability, she invites readers to find reflections of their own stories within these pages. This debut poetry collection is a reminder to remember the good, carry the hard and hold close the memories that make us who we are.Felicia Zuniga was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she now lives with her husband and two young sons. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English with a Creative Writing Concentration from the University of Calgary. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals across Canada, and Remember the Good is her debut collection. When she's not writing, working as a communications director, or spending time with family and friends, she can be found on her Peloton, planning her next trip, or reminiscing over old photos while early 2000s music plays in the background.Poignant and relatable, the poems in Remember the Good evoke the experiences of growing up. From first kiss to first heartbreak, from family dinners to creepy dates, from the isolation of pregnancy to the birth of a baby that "naps like a grenade," Zuniga recalls moments of passage in a "blur / of broken rainbows." These are raw poems that question "the new ways our old words / would be used" and celebrate "the days / we'll look back on."- Kat Cameron, author of Ghosts Still Linger, winner of the High Plains Award for poetry
Epitaphs in Red
Step into a shadowed realm where beauty and horror intertwine, where every whispered verse carries the weight of despair, and every stanza is etched in crimson sorrow. In Epitaphs in Red: Poems of the Damned, K.W. Krieger masterfully crafts a chilling collection of gothic poetry that delves into the macabre, the grotesque, and the hauntingly beautiful.These verses are not merely poems-they are epitaphs, written for the lost, the broken, and the cursed. Each page draws readers deeper into a cemetery of dark imaginings, with tales of restless spirits, cursed lovers, and unseen terrors lurking just beyond the veil of human comprehension. From blood-stained blades to shadowed whispers in forgotten hallways, each piece dares you to face the abyss and peer into the horrors within.Perfect for those who revel in the macabre, this collection promises to leave no soul unscathed. Whether you are a seeker of the morbidly poetic or a lover of tales that chill the very marrow, Epitaphs in Red will haunt your thoughts long after you've turned the final page.Beware-these poems are not merely read; they are experienced. And once they take root, they may never let go.
Mountebank
MOUNTEBANK is a book of bells and bodies, of vows made in a kitchen and broken in public, of love that keeps asking for water and coffee and proof. Tom Snarsky writes with a bright, restless intelligence that can turn from saints to spreadsheet cells, from roadkill to set theory, from the hush of a pond to the blunt pressure of debt and modern work. These poems are funny in the way survival gets funny, and tender in the way tenderness sometimes arrives as a warning.Across five parts, MOUNTEBANK moves through fractured lyric, devotional shards, and a suite of sharp, human translations, all threaded with animals, weather, faith, tech, and the daily negotiations of partnership. It is a collection that listens hard to the world's static and still finds music there, even when the music stings
Drive Through the Night
Following the release of their micro-memoir, To Lose the Madness, and the TEDx Talk at Yale University based on their life, Browning returns from a six-year poetic silence with, Drive through the Night. The map of these poems traces the poet's journey of overcoming and re-becoming while set against the iconic backdrop of the American Southwest. In Drive Through the Night, we follow the trail of an orphan-turned-vagabond who left behind the white picket fence for the open range and open road.
Textile with Birds and Smoke
Drawing from, and reflecting on, the experience of teenage years stilled by illness and pain, for this, her second collection, Keri Finlayson has made poems concerned with the complementarity and tension of movement and stasis.Many of the poems explore the meanings of textile as a weight and as a constant, as covering and as clothing. Some take comfort in the reassuring permanence of trees. Others, by contrast, represent fluidity: the flow of gossip, bird song, nursery rhymes, smoke, speech and scent; things that might move around the still island of the body or the bed. Here poetry is shown to be an attempt to make objects out of all that movement, and all that stillness.
Face it
A boy scratches his name on a staircase as the decades sweep him over him. Young people run from childhood to claim a city that may destroy them, while in the aftermath of a terrible event even our own minds desert us. These are poems of disconnection, from ourselves and from a world that has come unmoored. They ask hard questions about our complicity in creating that world. But they are poems too about what may be found and honoured in that unforgiving space. The city with its 'centuries of settlement and bone' is also a place of refuge and consolation, while the physical world 'which built us and birthed us' is 'with us to the end'. Fragile young lives, caught 'between wonder and dismay', are witnessed without judgement. Face it asks us to take an unflinching but compassionate look at everything we've made and everything that has made us, as we struggle through the constraints of our own nature, continually seeking our own selves and 'something that looks like home'.
Under the Lemon Tree
Under the Lemon Tree is the deconstruction of all the things you scream and cry when you learn to love. Free falling into addiction of affection; to hurt over and over again and do so for so long you look back and reflect on all the hurt and desperate attempts for affection that have fed you lessons to learn from. Under the Lemon Tree is hurtful because it has to be, because if love is anything it's the hurt we share with one another. This collection of poetry is the guide through the gentle games of control and care we play with one another. The author's personal memoir of holding hands with people he either shouldn't have, or couldn't have for as long as he had wanted to. Love is fickle and fragile. Under the Lemon Tree examines love from a perspective of "that was then, I feel it now"; where the heartstrings of your past have already snapped. Our hearts break sometimes, sometimes so badly the healing touch of love suddenly pulverizes it. Love is painful, but Under the Lemon Tree teaches us to care for what's left of us. I wrote some of these when I was 13, I wrote some of these recently, I hope you join me, Under the Lemon Tree.
Vigil
Vigil is Joseph Geskey's second book of poems. His first, Alms for the Ravens, was published in 2024. His poetry has appeared in Verse Daily, JAMA, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, The Dodge, and many other literary journals. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. A physician who practices in an underserved area of Columbus, Ohio, he lives in Dublin, Ohio with his wife and daughter.
Pathetic Fallacy
Love is portrayed in Let Me Learn How as both a sacred promise and a haunting echo, a wound and a cure. Hearts bleed like sunsets, memories haunt old homes like ghosts, and every line hurts with the question: what does it mean to love too much and still not enough? Brooke Biddle creates this universe with her flowing rhymes that veer between devotion and desire.Grief, hope, and the intense tenderness of holding on when it seems impossible to let go are all interwoven in these poems as they meander through shadowed meadows, haunting gazebos, and starry skies. In this case, love is religion, a curse, and salvation-a persistent cry that I should learn how.Raw, luminous, and unforgettable, this book spreads its arms like a home to readers who have ever felt both frail and endless, drowning in recollection.
Finding What Always Was
Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started as a response to the isolation of COVID-19 became something far deeper: a creative practice rooted in trust, Country, and connection.Finding What Always Was is the anthology born of that practice, speaking both to the soul of research and to a nation still reckoning with its identity. Through poetic inquiry, these scholars trace the emotional and intellectual terrain of working across cultures in colonised systems. Their words are rivers eroding mountains: sometimes raging with change, sometimes trickling unseen, but always flowing. They write in open circles etched in sand, in quiet reflection, in a corroboree grown of deep soil where curiosity overcomes criticism, and no tall poppy stands alone. Here, creativity transforms inquiry. Here, scholarship is cool water on a weary day, "a tender dressing for academic hurt," roots cracking concrete so truth can breathe.Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started as a response to the isolation of COVID-19 became something far deeper: a creative practice rooted in trust, Country, and connection.Finding What Always Was is the anthology born of that practice, speaking both to the soul of research and to a nation still reckoning with its identity. Through poetic inquiry, these scholars trace the emotional and intellectual terrain of working across cultures in colonised systems. Their words are rivers eroding mountains: sometimes raging with change, sometimes trickling unseen, but always flowing. They write in open circles etched in sand, in quiet reflection, in a corroboree grownof deep soil where curiosity overcomes criticism, and no tall poppy stands alone. Here, creativity transforms inquiry. Here, scholarship is cool water on a weary day, "a tender dressing for academic hurt," roots cracking concrete so truth can breathe.This anthology is both record and revelation. It is a testament to the strength of community in times of uncertainty, and a meditation on what it means to live, work, and create within complex academic and cultural spaces. It is a reminder that research itself can be a corroboree, a river, a spiral, an act of pure creation, and that poetry is a place where"nothing is destroyed, nothing is lost."
Atlanta offering Poems
Atlanta Offering: Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a rich collection of verse reflecting themes of faith, freedom, education, and social progress in post-Civil War America. Written during a period of profound transformation, Harper's poetry addresses the moral responsibilities of individuals and communities while affirming hope, resilience, and the pursuit of justice.The collection blends spiritual reflection with social commentary, highlighting Harper's role as a leading voice in African American literature and reform movements of the nineteenth century. Her poems offer insight into the cultural, political, and emotional landscape of Black life during Reconstruction and beyond.This book is essential for readers interested in African American poetry, nineteenth-century American literature, women's writing, and social reform traditions.
Idylls of the Bible
Idylls of the Bible by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is a reflective collection of poems inspired by biblical stories, characters, and moral themes. Through lyrical verse, Harper reimagines familiar biblical narratives, emphasizing compassion, faith, moral responsibility, and spiritual resilience.Written with devotional depth and literary elegance, the collection reflects Harper's Christian faith and her belief in the power of scripture to guide ethical living and social justice. These poems offer readers a meditative exploration of biblical lessons through the voice of one of the most influential African American poets of the nineteenth century.This book is ideal for readers interested in religious poetry, biblical interpretation, African American literature, and nineteenth-century devotional writing.
Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Global Mythology
Unveil the World's Sacred Gods, Deities, Pantheons and Creation MythsStep into a time when the world was shaped by story, ritual, and belief. Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Global Mythology invites you on a sweeping journey across civilizations where thunder had intention, fire had guardians, and order was forged through divine structure. From ancient hearth fires and storm-filled skies to fertile earth and cosmic law, this richly illustrated volume explores how humanity once understood creation, power, and survival through its gods.Spanning cultures from every corner of the globe, this book reveals the mythic systems that explained how the world began, how society held together, and why chaos demanded order. Each page carries the weight of belief systems that shaped civilizations long before science offered answers - a world where gods were not distant ideals, but necessary forces woven into daily life.Discover Pantheons, Creation Stories, and the Structures of BeliefMeet the deities who governed fire, seasons, law, fertility, fate, and time itself. Follow creation stories born from chaos, cosmic struggle, sacrifice, and balance. Each entry traces a deity's origin, function, and role within its culture, showing how myth was used to explain everything from natural forces to social order.Rather than summarizing belief, this encyclopedia steps inside it - revealing how pantheons operated as systems, how divine roles supported survival, and how these figures reflected the fears, hopes, and realities of the people who created them. These stories illuminate humanity's earliest attempts to impose meaning on an unpredictable world.Breathtaking Illustrations That Bring the Divine to LifeEvery deity is reimagined through striking, detailed artwork that captures authority, age, and mythic presence. From celestial rulers and earth-bound guardians to figures of fire, fate, and fertility, each illustration conveys gravitas rather than idealization. The art anchors the myths visually, allowing readers to encounter these figures as they were once imagined - powerful, demanding, and deeply tied to the forces they governed.
Creekwater Mansions
This debut collection of poems by Ian Hall illuminates daily life for a family and community in eastern Kentucky, all the while singing with verbal delights.Creekwater Mansion chronicles the gross iterations of intimacy that people under duress-socioeconomic, geographic, homeostatic, or interpersonal-often practice: a boy piping cigarette smoke down the swollen ductwork of his dad's throat because he is too feeble to draw breath, a man trying desperately to preserve the fossil of musk that lingers in his late father's workshirt as his own son stares on through a chink in the wall, two cousins playing doctor on their dwindling grandmother while she takes a nap. These are the variations of affection and kinship, so informed by and inextricable from the macabre tedium that abides in the back pews, dialysis clinics, and County-Line Liquors of daily life in Eastern Kentucky. While these poems are frequently ordered around grisly attitudes and occurrences, moods of indolent provincialism, and the evermore-contagious disease of despair, these are at their core love poems. Hall writes, "Those are my people. I want nothing more than to esteem them and to show outsiders that even gruesomely human moments stripped of any decoration still have the heft and horsepower to be transcendent."
Finding What Always Was
Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started as a response to the isolation of COVID-19 became something far deeper: a creative practice rooted in trust, Country, and connection.Finding What Always Was is the anthology born of that practice, speaking both to the soul of research and to a nation still reckoning with its identity. Through poetic inquiry, these scholars trace the emotional and intellectual terrain of working across cultures in colonised systems. Their words are rivers eroding mountains: sometimes raging with change, sometimes trickling unseen, but always flowing. They write in open circles etched in sand, in quiet reflection, in a corroboree grown of deep soil where curiosity overcomes criticism, and no tall poppy stands alone. Here, creativity transforms inquiry. Here, scholarship is cool water on a weary day, "a tender dressing for academic hurt," roots cracking concrete so truth can breathe.Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started as a response to the isolation of COVID-19 became something far deeper: a creative practice rooted in trust, Country, and connection.Finding What Always Was is the anthology born of that practice, speaking both to the soul of research and to a nation still reckoning with its identity. Through poetic inquiry, these scholars trace the emotional and intellectual terrain of working across cultures in colonised systems. Their words are rivers eroding mountains: sometimes raging with change, sometimes trickling unseen, but always flowing. They write in open circles etched in sand, in quiet reflection, in a corroboree grownof deep soil where curiosity overcomes criticism, and no tall poppy stands alone. Here, creativity transforms inquiry. Here, scholarship is cool water on a weary day, "a tender dressing for academic hurt," roots cracking concrete so truth can breathe.This anthology is both record and revelation. It is a testament to the strength of community in times of uncertainty, and a meditation on what it means to live, work, and create within complex academic and cultural spaces. It is a reminder that research itself can be a corroboree, a river, a spiral, an act of pure creation, and that poetry is a place where"nothing is destroyed, nothing is lost."
50 Ways To Say ____
This poetry collection is a raw and evocative journey through the human psyche-navigating the turbulent waters of love, loss, mental health, and existential questioning. Through vivid cosmic and natural imagery, it captures the fragility of the human experience with both tenderness and ferocity. Each poem serves as a fragmented reflection: moments of longing, bursts of anger, flashes of hope, and deep introspection. Symbolism-mirrors, stars, waves, typewriters-grounds surreal, dreamlike passages in emotional reality. Whether wrestling with inner demons, mourning love lost, or seeking purpose in chaos, the voice remains unapologetically honest. Shifting between soft whispers and raw cries, these verses illuminate both the darkness we carry and the light we fight to preserve. For anyone who has ever felt too much, too deeply, this collection offers a resonant echo and a quiet reminder: survival is an art-and expression, its most powerful tool.
Now, Then, and Before Then
Donna Warfield is a theatre professional based in Richmond, Virginia. Now, Then, and Before Then, her authorial debut, weaves together three chapters of her life through the poetry she wrote along the way. Containing raw depictions of the strained relationship she has with her father, the conflicting societal pressures she continues to face as a woman, and the past traumas she's carried into her romantic relationships; readers can expect this poetry collection to serve heightened emotions and brutal honesty.
The Epic Poems
These are 12 tales drawn from mythology, mostly of misguided love: Apollo who falls passionately for the frigid Daphne.Acteaon's lust for Diana, Goddess of chastity.Orpheus and his lost love Euridice.The brotherly love between Achilles and Patroclus during the Trojan war, fatal for both of them.The sculptor Pygmalion creating a statue with which he falls in love and which Aphrodite brings to life for him.Abelard in life denied his love for H癡loise, which is the most famous romance of the Middle Ages.Lucretia who kills herself for shame after being raped by Tarquin.The first murder and the price Cain paid for it.Ph癡dre loved by Theseus but who loves her stepson Hippolytus.Dido with her unreciprocated love for Aeneas.The folly committed by Ariadne which results in the killing of the MinotaurAnd finally, The opportunist Semele who is lured to disaster by Jupiter's jealous wife Juno.
New American Writing issue 43
The 43nd issue of New American Writing, edited by Paul Hoover. Contributors include Denise Newman, Mark Irwin, G.C. Waldrep, Supritha Rajan, Alexandria Peary, Wang Ping, Marc Vincenz, Mark Pawlak, Angie Estes, Joseph Lease, Donna de la Perrière, Mark DuCharme, David Mutschlecner, and Madina Tuhbatullina.
Trillion Amber Trumpets
Trillion Amber Trumpets walks the back roads of the Ozarks, where weather, blood, and memory share the same stubborn pulse. These poems move through kitchens and graveyards, family talk and silence, desire and shame, learning what it costs to stay alive and open. Plainspoken and tender, the poems accept loss, love, and the hard mercy of living as you were meant to-despite, and because of, the land that grew you.Trillion Amber Trumpets is #3 in the Arkansas Queer Poet Series. The mission of the Arkansas Queer Poet Series is to highlight and honor LGBTQ poets with a connection to Arkansas, the home state of Sibling Rivalry Press.
Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Global Mythology
Unveil the World's Sacred Gods, Deities, Pantheons and Creation MythsStep into a time when the world was shaped by story, ritual, and belief. Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Global Mythology invites you on a sweeping journey across civilizations where thunder had intention, fire had guardians, and order was forged through divine structure. From ancient hearth fires and storm-filled skies to fertile earth and cosmic law, this richly illustrated volume explores how humanity once understood creation, power, and survival through its gods.Spanning cultures from every corner of the globe, this book reveals the mythic systems that explained how the world began, how society held together, and why chaos demanded order. Each page carries the weight of belief systems that shaped civilizations long before science offered answers - a world where gods were not distant ideals, but necessary forces woven into daily life.Discover Pantheons, Creation Stories, and the Structures of BeliefMeet the deities who governed fire, seasons, law, fertility, fate, and time itself. Follow creation stories born from chaos, cosmic struggle, sacrifice, and balance. Each entry traces a deity's origin, function, and role within its culture, showing how myth was used to explain everything from natural forces to social order.Rather than summarizing belief, this encyclopedia steps inside it - revealing how pantheons operated as systems, how divine roles supported survival, and how these figures reflected the fears, hopes, and realities of the people who created them. These stories illuminate humanity's earliest attempts to impose meaning on an unpredictable world.Breathtaking Illustrations That Bring the Divine to LifeEvery deity is reimagined through striking, detailed artwork that captures authority, age, and mythic presence. From celestial rulers and earth-bound guardians to figures of fire, fate, and fertility, each illustration conveys gravitas rather than idealization. The art anchors the myths visually, allowing readers to encounter these figures as they were once imagined - powerful, demanding, and deeply tied to the forces they governed.
Uncoupling
Uncoupling is an extraordinary book by a new and powerful voice in Texas poetry. In these poems, Margo Davis explores the nature of human relationships--romantic, familial, platonic, with wit, humor, and craft. These poems are accessible and fun, but also reflective and at times brutally honest about the inequalities that exist in our society. These are poems for both lovers of poetry and casual readers of verse.
The Council of Masters
The Council of Masters, Echoes of a Conclave is not a book you simply read - it is a threshold you cross. Every page breathes with the resonance of silence, where unseen masters wait to remind you of truths long hidden. Their voices rise through earth and stone, fire and water, leading you deeper into the mysteries of your own soul. Here you will discover that the body is not a burden but a temple, that every vibration is a note in the great symphony of creation, that stones themselves remember, and that love burns as an eternal fire within the heart. Each chapter unfolds as a revelation, a mirror in which the masters appear - not as distant beings, but as reflections of your own essence. Written in a voice at once mystical and timeless, this book calls both to the mind and to the marrow of the spirit. It does not merely inform; it transforms. At the final threshold, two doors await, one opens to the world, one to eternity. Yet perhaps they are not two at all, but a single mystery wearing many faces, inviting you to step across and remember who you have always been.
Grafton Bridge Eulogy
With a full and mindful awareness, the interpretation of love in the modern world can itself become a way of life. If embraced sincerely, it can serve as a model of something positive and beautiful. Life is what it is perceived to be-conceived and moulded by each individual. Perhaps within yourself you can find an inner sanctuary where you celebrate love and life in their most essential form and truly become yourself.
Tramontana
In Tramontana, the author invites readers on an intimate journey of spiritual transformation, weaving together a tapestry of emotions and insights that explore the profound depths of the human experience. From the trembling precarity in facing the unknown to the radiant embrace of unconditional love, these poems traverse a wide range of themes that speak to the soul. Grounded in the author's vulnerability as a writer, each verse is an illustrative exploration of the human condition intersected with the unfailing capacity of the awakened heart to bring us home within ourselves. Each verse captures the essence of nature's stillness woven into the warmth of human touch mirroring the serene turbulence of inner growth. Mountains, oceans, and trees become metaphors of resilience, connection, and renewal. Whether you are seeking solace, inspiration, or a moment of reflection, Tramontana, titled after the majestic North Wind, offers a space to pause and reconnect with the boundless beauty within and around us. These poems are a celebration of life and true love's transformative power, reminding us that even in the darkest moments, there is light - and in stillness, there is strength.
Nevada
After dropping out of high school and getting kicked out of the house, a disenfranchised teen moves in with Gina, an underage sex-worker and the teen's only friend. While intitially a refuge from the judgement of the outside world, Gina's house becomes yet another prison in the endless desert that entraps them. Throughout their time living together, they are sucked deeper and deeper into the quicksand of addiction, eventually finding themselves totally isolated. The other kids they used to party with have moved on. Their families won't speak to them unless they clean up their acts. All they have left is each other and the vaguest outline of a plan. One day they'll move somewhere where there's water and trees. The only other people they encounter with any regularity are Gina's clients, who include Officer Krum of the Fernley Police Department, amongst other supposedly upstanding citizens. They are kept afloat by their dream of a lighter life, in a landscape as different as could be from the arid expanse in which they've (mis)spent their youths, and the unrelenting hope that the grass really is greener and they're just a few lucky breaks away from a one-way ticket out of this town. This work of fiction in verse explores alienation, addiction, the necessity of dreams, and the enduring power of friendship to get you through your darkest times.
Some Main Things
Some Main Things is an eclectic collection of twenty-six essays on a broad range of American poets and their work. The author of nine volumes of poetry, Chard deNiord has long sought "to assuage any 'anxiety of influence' in my own poetry-writing by immersing myself in the work of myriad other poets." In these essays, he writes with well-honed critical acumen about progenitors like Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, as well as poets of his own generation, many of whom he has interviewed at length-Lucille Clifton, Louise Glück, Charles Simic, Philip Levine, and Ruth Stone. "Each new reading of their poems," deNiord explains,"deepens my conviction that they sustain and update what Walt Whitman called 'the aboriginal strength of American poetry.'" Whitman himself once challenged"Poets to Come"to stay focused on"the main things"; deNiord's essays demonstrate how well they have succeeded. Chard deNiord has compiled a lifetime of dazzling insights into the foundation and practice of contemporary poetry. This book is an erudite initiation for the student, a guide for the perplexed, and a mystery voyage for the practiced reader. DeNiord's prose is charged with what poems aspire to: "negative capability," the ability to remain radically open to a world which will never know us. These essays thrill to the joy of exploration rather than the thud of judgment. Henri Michaux said that "the will is the death of art," and we all know critical prose that demonstrates its own expertise while leaving its subjects flattened, emptied of the unsayable. DeNiord stands with Walt Whitman, who wrote, "Not to-day is to justify me and answer for what I am." These essays burn with the fierce life and questioning itch of their subjects.... Poetry is a naked art. It requires only a pencil stub and the back of a utility bill. Or a twig for scratching in the dust. It's solitary, riddled with silences- between lines, between stanzas. DeNiord writes, "Like Eros, it was born poor and has remained so to keep its blessing." Poetry stands helpless before the final questions and may take on their power. Why do we love and destroy? How can we understand the night sky and still be tongue-tied before death? -D. Nurske, from the Foreword
Running Toward Water
Running Toward Water is a collection of poems centered around the mystery of prayer as an experience of transformation in Divine Love. This experience unfolds over three cyclical stages: letting belief come undone, opening to the depth of what is still true, and allowing that truth to permeate and flow from the heart. Individual poems explore themes of climate grief, mortality, loneliness, chronic pain, surrender, and belonging, always through the lens of the natural world. As the speaker falls into deeper layers of seeing, she finds hope in acts of love offered and received, more than outcomes, and warmth in the sacred Oneness of all being.
Knock on Wood
First love often breaks hearts, but deep in the woods, it magically makes one beat.When a boy runs away from his cruel father and into the forest, a lonely tree feels her first stirring. A grove of golden larches is a perfect refuge, unless you're a 200-year-old larch tree who finds herself, for the first time, falling in love.Edward, the son of a bitter logger, returns to the grove over the years, first as a defiant teenager, then grown into a handsome, but troubled young man. The tree waits for him through each long winter, her heartwood and bark slowly turning to blood and bone, until the day when Edward's destiny, at last, catches up to him . . . and he enters the woods with a saw.With her first, tentative step, the erstwhile larch must not only stop the man she loves from cutting down her forest, but also decide which world she truly belongs in.
Psalms In An Evolving Cosmos
This volume of poems/prayers and exaltations comes from an imagined scientist's reading of the Old Testament Psalms; he creates poetic parallels to them, revealing the beauty of the Cosmos and his ecstasy over the small, finely tuned quantum numbers that make the Universe what it is. He praises the continuous evolution of all things. As an evolutionist, he sees God behind evolution itself-evolution as God's primary tool. This astronomer believes the Universe not only has a purpose that we are only beginning to understand, but also one that transforms continuously, that God creates and recreates, that God is the Artist and Architect, drafting and drawing new forms, giving birth and rebirth to stars, planets, humans.
Eros Rex
Eros Rex introduces Haley Hodges' vibrant poetic voice, at once sensual and reverent, restless and devoted. Hodges' sonically impactful lines are brash and honest in addressing God, and these poems viscerally situate spirituality in the everyday world, whether in Burger King or the back yard.
Stolen Neon
Twenty eight poems of love, desire, and reverie, a vibrant mixtape for the full and adventurous heart.Zoe Marie Bel has wagged a flashlight around the human condition and concluded that love is something very awesome, even if it isn't always easy to measure, predict, or capture alive. This slimbook of poetry is a cardiograph in words, reflecting what love (and friendship) can do to our pulse rate, our electricity bill, and our tolerance for shared wet hoagies in the winter rain.This special edition of Stolen Neon also features two short love stories (including Black Wax, shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize), as well as a Thanksgiving essay about the endurance and faith brought out us in the people (and places) we love.
It's Important I Remember
An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to many, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union.
Promises to Keep
It is an old story: a church-going family man receives a violent call to become a prophet. He's read the source material, knows how this has ended for others. But without a means of running away, he reluctantly accepts a vocation he rightly fears will result in tragedy for his family. While receiving dreams and visions, delivering sermons and prayers, frequenting political protests and police stations, being placed in handcuffs and straitjackets, the prophet attempts to speak truth to power and make it home whole, if there is a home left to return to. Promises to Keep explores the fear and trembling and doubt required to have faith in ourselves, each other, and whatever forces may be guiding our steps. It demands we consider what we devote our lives to, what we say we love, and whether the cost of such devotion is worth it.
Dear Dear
Winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award, Reuben Gelley Newman's Dear Dear renders queer love through the lens of music, art, nature, and politics. Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski, Gelley Newman flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking how remembering our ancestors can reinvigorate our present struggles. In these poems, sound becomes the language of desire and self-expression: "I want to do better / I want to be the husband of the song." Combining playful sonnets and earnest narratives, Dear Dear searches for belonging in our grief-stricken world.
El vuelo interminable / The Never-Ending Flight
In El vuelo interminable / The Never-Ending Flight, Eduardo Joly narrates (in poems in both English and Spanish) his experiences following the Austral Airline crash in the Andean Mountain range, a few kilometers from Bariloche, Argentina, in November of 1977. He was on that flight on his honeymoon. He survived; his wife did not.Joly's life, from the moment of the plane crash, became a never-ending flight, one that fails to land. Yet, following the tragedy, he managed not only to continue living but to do so in a way that includes personal joy and gives back to society. It is as if he is following two paths on a map simultaneously: one moving through that territory he has been able to salvage-physically, psychologically, emotionally-and the other the body memory of an experience which will always be with him.These poems emerged in two languages: sometimes in Spanish, others in English, at times bilingually. Joly then translated the work into both languages, and both are presented here, side by side, demonstrating the art of translating lived experience into sparse and powerful language.
