Reflections
Reflection is a collection of poetry written by a retired GP reflecting the events and relationships in his life, from family holidays, the birth of grandchildren, and the respect he holds for friends and colleagues .
Between Root and Sky
Between Root and Sky: A Collection of PoemsA Contemporary Poetry Collection on Grief, Love, and Spiritual TransformationWe live between root and sky-held by earth while longing for flight.Between Root and Sky is a contemporary poetry collection exploring grief, love, and spiritual transformation through nature-based, contemplative verse. Organized in three movements-Thresholds, The Unraveling, and Returning-these poems trace the human journey from deep attachment, through loss and dissolution, to quiet integration.These poems do not rush toward healing. They sit with grief, honor loneliness, and find the sacred in ordinary moments. Nature appears as teacher and witness-offering steadiness when words fall away. What emerges is not triumph, but the understanding that we can carry loss as carefully as love, remaining rooted while still reaching.Written in accessible, lyrical language, Between Root and Sky offers poetry that feels like companionship in difficult seasons.This collection is for readers seeking: Poetry for grief and loss without sentimentalityNature-based, spiritual poetry without dogmaPoems about love, resilience, and life transitionsContemporary poetry that is reflective and emotionally honestLanguage for loss, love and transformationPerfect for readers who enjoy books like: Devotions by Mary OliverWild Geese by Mary OliverThe House of Belonging by David WhyteThe Carrying by Ada Lim籀nKeep Moving by Maggie Smith
Coming into an Inheritance
Jeff Hardin's eighth collection, Coming into an Inheritance, explores how tenderness, gratitude, mercy, and even grace might still inform people's shared sense of the world. Hardin argues that by imagining voices not our own, we might find ourselves called to another language, one aware of its omissions, one able to believe toward some day farther on when we'll find that hoped-for, promised inheritance-fellowship, awe, intimacy-abounds everywhere already within reach.
A commoner's prayer
Joan M. White's debut is a poetic exploration of the seasons-not only the natural cycles of spring, summer, fall, and winter, but also the profoundly human seasons of life. Poems here are tender, honest, and quietly powerful, drawing inspiration from nature, humanity, and spirituality. With vivid storytelling and an intuitive connection to nature, this collection captures the beauty, loss, and resilience that define our shared experience.
Errances
A chapbook of stunning breadth and depth, Errances explores the power of language to imagine, construct, and take apart our internal and external worlds. The writing brims with a playful linguistic curiosity that belies the seriousness of the themes Hecq is engaging with - how language mediates experience, how writing is an act of resistance/existence, the dissonance inherent in inhabiting - or being inhabited by - multiple languages in a country that clings to monolingualism.By placing several languages in direct and indirect conversation, Hecq creates a symphonic landscape, in which she is explorer and guide. Errances invites the reader to wander with the poet through myriad connections and disconnections, resonances, and discoveries as she negotiates questions of belonging and being in a land that is both hostile and home. Nadia Niaz
Time Is, Was, Will Be
TIME IS, WAS, WILL BEIt's Sunday, November 5th. Four and a half years to the day after Bialer's wife Lenora died of breast cancer on May 5th-also a Sunday. He wrestles with whether it feels like a long time since she's been gone or if it just feels like a few months. Grief causes time to fluctuate.He used to count how many Sundays had passed since her death, like swimming in an endless ocean, moving farther and farther from the shore. He'd count how many haircuts he's gotten since then. He remembers scrambling together her last Passover meal because it was an important holiday to her, and he was trying to keep it all together, to enjoy the ordinary. Their daughter Izzy is now 21. She was 16 when her mother died. To her, that's a long, long time ago - on the other side of the world. Today is Daylight Saving Time and the longest day of the year. In a few days, Bialer will have dinner at his girlfriend of three and a half years, Mary's, apartment, and celebrate her birthday with Izzy and Mary's daughter, Samantha. He is now living a different life.Sometimes, it feels like time isn't real. Was his 30-plus years with Lenora real? He thought he had stopped counting how many haircuts he'd gotten. But he hasn't stopped. He can't. He feels guilty leaving it all behind, even while enjoying life-this new life. He posts that 41/2 years ago will always be "that day." Is time real? Is it just an artificial construct of the human mind? He's been assigned to buy the cake for Mary's birthday. He stands in an Old-World bakery in his Brooklyn neighborhood, searching for the perfect cake: a yellow sponge cake inside, topped with chocolate frosting. He notices a very old black-and-white photo taped to the wall of the late Mayor Ed Koch buying a cake in this very store. It is behind a clear plastic bag with flour splotches. He realizes that here in the bakery-time is, was, and will be.
Whole, Holy, Hot
Chrissy Martin's debut book of poetry, Whole, Holy, Hot, captures a mind and body on fire: illuminated, inflamed, blushed, and charred. Selfhood refracts through a kaleidoscope of pop culture, gender performance, shifting geographies, religious control, medical systems, and violence both intimate and structural-- alongside love gathered in doorways and kitchens and the wild light of humor, play, and magic. Wielding theory in one hand and an espresso martini in the other, these poems balance critical inquiry with camp and whimsy. Through formal verse, sprawling prose poems, and whispered gossip, Whole, Holy, Hot challenges popular depictions of disability and mental illness and finds sharp truths in the reality TV confessional booth. This collection insists that every mind and body is already whole, already holy, and absolutely hot.
Rooms in a Burning House
Rooms in a Burning House is a poetic exploration of mental illness through the metaphor of a living, breathing mansion-one whose rooms shift, fracture, multiply, and burn alongside the mind that inhabits it.Structured in three acts, this collection invites readers to walk through symbolic rooms that embody anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, psychosis, dissociation, neurodivergence, grief, identity, and survival. Each poem is not a diagnosis, but an emotional architecture: the felt experience of living inside a mind shaped by disorder, memory, and resilience.In Act I, the house is alive-its corridors flickering with panic, its bedrooms heavy with despair, its observatory blazing with manic brilliance. Act II leads deeper into hidden wings and impossible rooms, where paranoia watches from keyholes and compulsions weave themselves into ritual. In Act III, the fire has passed, leaving ash, silence, and the difficult work of standing among ruins and understanding what remains.Written with lyric intensity and compassionate clarity, Rooms in a Burning House is not a book about being broken. It is a book about survival-about the rooms we carry within us, the fires we endure, and the quiet truth that even in devastation, the house still stands.For readers of mental health poetry, metaphor-driven literature, and anyone who has ever lived inside their own mind and wondered if they were alone, this book offers recognition, witness, and a steady hand through the smoke.
Four Reincarnations
Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to "everything living / that won't come with me / into this sunny afternoon." Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity, but he is also a poet of life and of love--a cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.Ritvo writes to his wife, ex­-lovers, therapists, fathers, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips, Indian mythology, wool hats. But in these poems--from the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of death--it's Ritvo's vulnerable, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one of our finest young poets.
(inner work)ing
This debut collection of poetry, (inner work)ing, lays out poet Rowan Stuart Lay's struggles of learning and embracing the raw humanness of life through poems and songs. From the shadow of personal darkness and anxieties of growth and contemplation, through prayerful thought and mindful meditation, to the gentle sparks of hope and growing love, (inner work)ing journeys through the evolution of a soul ever seeking growth. This collection documents jagged and sharp edges of a broken spirit and the cultivation of hopes, dreams, and love that smooth a healing heart that has weathered the challenges of chronic mental health struggles, love, and strife within community and self. This book's soul-searching reaches through six years of writing to chart a course towards an ongoing development and cultivation of love and grace. At times a confessional, at times a prayer, at times a cry to feel human, this collection yearns to wield its authenticity and emotion to question what does it mean to be a growing person and what does it mean to reach for a more peaceful and loving future. It is the author's hope that these words invite you, reader, to sit with the inner work waiting for us in our daily lives and to smile with hope at the opportunity in front of you: the chance to make this world and your own heart a better, brighter place.
Almost Blooming
Almost Blooming is a poetry collection that explores mental health through the language of the natural world. These poems move through depression, anxiety, grief, and self-doubt without urgency, sitting with what it means to continue when progress feels invisible, when healing arrives in fragments, and when simply existing takes effort.The collection lingers in isolation, loss, and the versions of ourselves we leave behind, while holding space for flickers of hope, love, and brief light. It does not promise easy answers or transformation. Instead, it recognizes that existing, feeling, and moving forward, however slowly, are acts of quiet courage.You do not have to be fully healed to be worthy of love, joy, or rest. You are allowed to grow at your own pace.Even without blooming, there is life.
No Stranger Than My Own
Michael Henry's poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday.
everything and nothing
The feeling of being has no real words that can describe it, and all the words in this book fall hopelessly short. These poems are an attempt, at best, to describe the torrent of daily life and things we feel as individuals trying to find a place in the world.
One Last Look
She doesn't see the world as it is. She sees it as it speaks to her through storms, winds, love, silence, and all things divine and flawed. This is not a book of answers. It's a collection of raw visions bold, untamed, and beautifully unfiltered. Each poem is a perspective reborn, a question reframed, a belief reimagined. Through her words, a girl dares to observe the world differently, even when no one else sees what she sees. Especially then. Like a bird crafting her nest with unfamiliar twigs and a new rhythm, she builds a home of poetry-layered with rebellion, reflection, and clarity. Some may disagree. Others may feel seen. But either way, her voice remains her own. Open these pages and connect with the bird who never learned to fly the usual way because she was too busy building a sky of her own.
Tell Me
"A profoundly wise, humane, and generous collection, Tell Me constantly generates and celebrates connection - between body and world, art and nature, individual life, and the sweep of often painful history. Overflowing with wisdom, tenderness, and celebration, Tell Me encourages us to recognize that "Your longing / your garments of grief" are also "circles of belonging".- Joy Ladin, Poet, Scholar, Teacher
Pathik Pita Ke Path Par Putra Ke Paon
Pathik Pita Ke Path Par Putra Ke Paon - Son's Feet on the Wanderer Father's Trail is a deeply moving collection of poems that weaves together memory, inheritance, nationhood, and the quiet strength of human emotion. Rooted in lived experience, this book is both a personal tribute and a universal reflection-one that speaks to the bonds between parent and child, the weight of legacy, and the silent courage that shapes ordinary lives into extraordinary stories.At its heart, this work honours the author's father, Late Mr. G. N. Sharma-a visionary, scholar, poet, and seeker whose life was guided by intellect, compassion, and moral clarity. Through poetry, the son walks in his father's footsteps, not to imitate, but to understand, to remember, and to carry forward a spiritual and emotional inheritance shaped by values, resilience, and quiet dignity. Each poem becomes a dialogue across time-between generations, between experience and memory, between loss and gratitude.Written by a doctor who discovered his poetic voice unexpectedly, the collection carries the authenticity of lived moments. The poems emerge not from literary ambition, but from emotional truth-born during moments of national upheaval, personal reflection, and profound awakening. From the bravery of soldiers at Galwan and the thunderous arrival of the Rafale jets, to intimate meditations on nature, faith, friendship, ageing, pain, and compassion, the verses move seamlessly between the personal and the collective conscience of a nation.The poetry is reflective yet grounded, emotional yet restrained. It speaks of patriotism without rhetoric, grief without bitterness, and love without excess. Nature becomes a quiet companion, faith a questioning presence, and humanity a recurring moral anchor. Each poem carries the weight of lived experience-sometimes tender, sometimes unsettling, always sincere.This anthology is also a meditation on time: what it gives, what it takes away, and what it leaves behind. It explores the fragility of life, the dignity of endurance, and the subtle beauty found in stillness, memory, and acceptance. Through themes of loss, resilience, duty, and devotion, the poet invites readers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their own inner landscapes.Son's Feet on the Wanderer Father's Trail is not merely a collection of poems-it is a journey of inheritance, remembrance, and quiet awakening. It will resonate with readers who value depth over display, emotion over ornamentation, and truth over performance. Above all, it stands as a heartfelt tribute to love that endures beyond time, and to a father whose footsteps continue to guide the path ahead.
Desert Heart
Desert Heart traces the human journey back home to ourselves. Gently moving between perspectives, many of the poems arise from a mystical space of inner wisdom. Their rich, natural imagery weaves together the reality of the body here on earth and the knowing of the spirit. Other poems speak to answering a calling to create art, while still others are deeply planted in the outer reality of life during this particular time-space. Readers will find this collection to be a call to recognize the yearnings of the heart and the whispers of the soul. It is a beckoning home.
Whispers of My Soul
Between heartbreak and hope, the soul remembers its own strength. Whispers of My Soul is Louise Kerwin's poetic descent into the shadows and ascent back into the light. Here, she writes of love that transforms, grief that fractures, sorrow that softens, and the quiet power that emerges when a woman meets herself in the ruins and chooses to rise. These poems are not just read; they are felt. They move like prayers. They echo like memories. They awaken like truth. With her signature blend of intimacy and insight, Louise guides you into the places where emotion, spirit, and self-love converge. In these pages, you will find beauty in the ache, hope in the unravelling, and meaning in every whisper the soul dares to speak. For anyone who has ever lost themselves, loved beyond measure, or longed for rebirth, this collection is your companion home.
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best
As its title hints, Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best insists on the links between congruous and incongruous things: the rusting moon and a katydid, Eden and Yugoslavia, blackbirds and imaginary numbers--not to mention between any two people. Jane Zwart has hoarded wonders large and small in these poems, holding them up beside life's inevitable pain and grief. Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best demonstrates an enduring faith in the written word to bind us closer together, in our sorrows and in our joys: "Every poem // is riddled with holes. But I am threading two tin cans' / punctured ends that you might know me yet."
These Poems Were Made in Fedell's Auto Body Shop
These poems cover such subjects as physics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, politics, history, mythology, mathematics, biology, art, AI, suicide, religion and Shakespeare: most of these are written in the English sonnet form representing the interior monologues of various personalities, many of whom are scathingly satirized. They are meant to be read aloud since the diction can be cryptic at times.
Roots and Fruit
Timothy's upcoming book, Roots and Fruit: An Introduction to the Christian Faith, is for those wondering what Christianity is all about. This book uses clear, formal verse over the course of 78 poems to introduce what Christians believe and why. These poems alternate between recounting the basic narrative of Scripture (from the Creation, Fall, and Exodus through the life of Christ and the founding of the Church) and explaining how each story lays the foundation for the doctrine and practices of Christians.Timothy E. G. Bartel is a poet and professor from California. His poems, translations, and essays have appeared in Christianity and Literature, First Things, The Hopkins Review, Modern Age, and elsewhere. Timothy is the author of four collections of poetry and three volumes of essays, most recently The Poets and the Fathers: Theology and Poetry from Gregory Nazianzus to Scott Cairns. Timothy lives with his family in Houston, where he serves as Professor of Great Texts and Theology at Saint Constantine College.
The Beautiful Foolishness
Early in The Beautiful Foolishness is a tongue-in-cheek poem called "Ten Koans," but you quickly discover that there are far more koans in Wayne Lee's book than ten. In fact, the koan-that brief paradoxical statement used in Zen Buddhist meditation-runs throughout the book, as do Zen philosophies and haiku, of which there's an entire section. The point? To make you slow down and contemplate. Lee's poetry, widely published in journals and anthologies, here invites the reader into a world where these Asian poetic traditions meet the U.S. Southwest.
Four times Three
Book three comes fairly quick after the other two books. All within one year.I like to be as versatile as possible with writing and hope as many readers as possible can identify with some of what is written here.I have looked for some deeper meaning in some aspects and added a bit of fantasy......or is it?Whatever you believe I hope you enjoy these verses.
Brave New Chord
A Personal Message to the Reader from the FutureDear reader, Somewhere along your journey, you stumbled upon this book - and you took it with you.Through the wormholes hidden in its poems, we landed with a parachute made of Lou Reed's lyrics, wandered into the Nighttime like in that Alex Chilton song, collected Dead Flowers, sipped coffee from Led Zeppelin mugs, met each other in a festival crowd wearing our Hi, How Are You T-shirts, traveled back to the past to see Dylan go electric, danced to Jeff Buckley, were haunted twice by Warren Zevon's ghost, looked at cloud swirls on Jupiter from Both Sides Now, and even traveled to the 12th Dimension with Leonard Cohen to make the ultimate humanity's playlist.And we did all that while vibing to the best tunes ever created. ����I hope the poems and the music woven into them helped you revisit your most meaningful memories and, at times, even brought a smile to your face.Music, after all, is a powerful remedy - and the only real time machine.Safe travels, Eve
The Butterfly Garden
A collection of poetry is essentially a butterfly garden wherein one might reduce the impact of habitat degradation and increase the migration of butterflies. Just as reading is said to be a journey, living memory is also textual ground ripe for travel. This book is the story of a year's writing by a veteran of modern literature. It is a chronological arrangement of thirteen lyrical, occasional, and narrative poems.
ZION OFFRAMP 51-100 (asemic dub)
asemic dub-so Mark Scroggins subtitles Zion Offramp 51-100. Asemic language wants to say the unsayable, can't be deciphered with any certainty. The reader can only wonder, imagine, examine the choices the text proposes. To dub is to echo, to alter, to name, to arm. asemic dub, then. To name or imagine into being? To echo or rework, remake what happens? To arm the word, to make it mean? To baptize with language-is that substance or spirit? Scroggins is a Deacon of the heretical faith we call the world, a celebrant of its arcane and familiar particulars, its heart- sunk, guarded privacies. "Deacon" from the Greek, meaning servant, messenger, minister. On his altar lie all the world's tales and trash, its wounds and laws, lullabies and betrayals, plagues, pleasures, prophecies, memories, original sins, mutable histories, breathtaking weather, vagrant blossoms, birds and insects, secrets in flames ... ruining the work of time. Ruining time itself, it seems, till we are utterly here. Only, where is here? Scroggins shows us how, though we are lost, benighted knights, we can read, think and feel our way along. And we can sing. The words step forward, upright and healthy: / puella, girl; agricola, farmer; filia, / daughter. Simple, musical, sensuous. I want to say, real. But not simple, not really. Language like a subtle complex / tapestry Morris Persian labyrinthine daedalian. Deacon Scroggins reminds us that words have the power to suffer for us, to bless and redeem us. What has been spoken in darkness / shall be published in the light. Strangely, the book seems not to end, not because Scroggins has promised a third volume of Zion Offramp, but because the poem feels magically contiguous with the world. It just keeps going. Something happened, something is happening, something may happen next, a giant story / that tells all the stories the book / didn't tell. An endless book, spilling / over, the mysterious, recurring girl in her room ... already a woman ... passing under the Bridge of Sighs. -Billie Chernicoff
Sun Come Back
Drift through ghost-lit towns, forest thrones, crumbling cities, and midnight diners. Blending surrealism and emotional depth, Sun Come Back follows a wandering narrator who moves like a shadow at the edge of other people's lives, providing dispatches from the outskirts of humanity. This is a book of love stories without names, letters from the trash, hallucinated towns, wolves with meat bouquets, and the ghosts who remain with us. Stories that are both absurd and intimately human. Sun Come Back immerses readers in a gothic dream of the American small town, where the darkness of night gives way to the clarity, love, and hope of a rising sun.
Fragments of Nightmare
A formidably fearsome collection of horrorku by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa."Each haiku in Fragments of Nightmare is a splinter of some dread-inducing scenario. Anh Khoa distills premises of horror and the supernatural down to their essence, conveying whole stories in just a few subtle lines while leaving the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks with terrible insinuation. This ghastly parade of poems advances before the reader like a spectral train of haunting moments frozen in time. Some will linger in your mind long after reading, returning to give you chills; others will make you come back to the collection for another taste. Recommended for dark evenings in autumn or winter for maximum effect." --Scott J. Couturier, author of Nightmuse: Poems of Speculative Darkness
Sky Tongued Back with Light
Snared between dream-like myth and harsh recollections of growing up, Sky Tongued Back with Light probes the sites of violence, beauty, and transformation that punctuate a boy's childhood and adolescence in the rural, northern Midwest. Sifting memory's scattered fragments to interrogate grief, gender, and the fragility of family, S矇bastien Luc Butler's poems navigate landscapes both physical and spiritual. Steeped in the voice of myth and images of the otherworldly, these poems move through personal and collective silences towards self-actualization and love. Examining a culture that teaches violence to the self as the basis for violence against others, this collection holds still those moments where the corporal and incorporeal converge with lasting impact.
Redbird
Redbird is a pocket journal, birthday card, sticky-note style collection of memories and experiences of a young Canadian girl remembering the riches of growing up in the boons. Redbird follows the author as she remembers her past, lives through her young twenties and dreams for her future. It follows the celebrations and hardships of relationships along the way. Redbird is a love letter to friends, family, and great Canadian summers.
Jahan Malek Khatun
This book presents the first extensive English study and translation of the poetry of Jahan Malek Khatun, a fourteenth-century Persian princess and one of the most important women in the history of Persian literature. Translator Sheema Kalbasi first introduced Jahan Malek Khatun to the general English-speaking audience in 2008 through her anthology Seven Valleys of Love: A Bilingual Anthology of Women Poets from Medieval Persia to Present Day Iran, which marked the earliest appearance of Jahan's poetry in English translation. Her surviving divan, which contains more than a thousand ghazals along with qasidas and shorter lyric forms, offers an unparalleled window into the intellectual, emotional, and cultural world of a noblewoman who wrote with clarity, restraint, and philosophical depth during a period of profound political instability. The volume introduces readers to the historical and literary contexts that shaped her life and work, and it situates her authorship within a long Iranian tradition in which women participated in governance, education, and artistic patronage from the ancient empires through the Islamic period. It recreates the refined yet precarious milieu of fourteenth-century Shiraz, where poetry functioned not only as an aesthetic practice but also as a medium of political expression and ethical contemplation. Through close readings, the book explores the disciplined craft of Jahan Malek Khatun's ghazals. Her poetry turns repeatedly to a stable constellation of images, such as wind, candle, threshold, and healer, that guide the reader through themes of longing, moral endurance, sovereignty, and judgment. Each couplet acts as a brief meditation, and the poems together form a sustained inquiry into the relationship between beauty, discipline, and survival. The study also examines the transmission of her work, the role of women as readers and preservers of literary culture, and the challenges inherent in translating a voice shaped by both privilege and constraint. Through this analysis and the accompanying translations, Jahan Malek Khatun emerges as a major intellectual presence and an essential figure for understanding the richness and complexity of the Persian lyric tradition.
Stand Out - The Red Penguin Collection
Stand Out - The Red Penguin Collection: Annual Poetry Project is a curated anthology celebrating the power of poetic voices that dare to be seen, heard, and remembered.This annual collection brings together poets from diverse backgrounds, styles, and lived experiences-each offering work that is bold, intimate, and unmistakably their own. From quiet reflections to fierce declarations, Stand Out honors poetry that challenges convention, sparks emotion, and leaves a lasting imprint on the reader.At its heart, this project is about visibility and courage. It invites poets to step forward, claim their space on the page, and contribute to a collective work that showcases authenticity, creativity, and the transformative power of language.Thoughtfully edited and beautifully produced by Red Penguin Books, Stand Out is more than an anthology-it is a statement. A testament to the idea that poetry still matters, voices still resonate, and words still have the power to change lives.Stand out. Speak boldly. Be part of something enduring.
Redbird
Redbird is a pocket journal, birthday card, sticky-note style collection of memories and experiences of a young Canadian girl remembering the riches of growing up in the boons. Redbird follows the author as she remembers her past, lives through her young twenties and dreams for her future. It follows the celebrations and hardships of relationships along the way. Redbird is a love letter to friends, family, and great Canadian summers.
The Artist My Muse
The Artist My MuseThe Artist My Muse is a devotional collection of poetry inspired by the creative eros of nature's seasons and the sacred cycles of growth unfolding within the human spirit.Written during moments of awakening, self-discovery, and deep inner listening, these poems trace the quiet, wild, and luminous journey of self-realisation. Each piece is both reflection and prayer-an invocation designed to stir your own creative muse and encourage authentic, heart-led expression.This collection is dedicated to the creative culture: the holy hustlers, new-earth visionaries, artists, healers, and guardians of the soul-those rising in God's light and choosing to shine boldly in a world longing for truth and beauty.The Artist My Muse is an invitation to soften inward, to remember who you are beneath the noise, and to courageously express what lives within you.Be who you are.Create from the heart.The world needs your heART.
The Mystical Quotidian
The Mystical Quotidian is a collection of over 180 short rhythmicr poems covering a wide range of themes in psychology, philosophy and human relationships. Written by a clinical psychologist in a style reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's, the poems' content ranges from enlightening to disheartening, often with an ironic or humorous twist.Culture's CallingCulture's calling -be on guard;bid your eyes to see;question his mythologies, then clear your mind and breathe;invite your intuition's song;read the sage's words;greet the quest with gentleness -enchanting, though absurd. The Margins of RealityThe Margins of Realitywere narrowly definedby all of the requirementsthat you had been assigned -that you had been admired -that you had been implored -that you had then colluded with by how you then ignored -and how you then negated -and how you then took flight -and how your eyes grew misty whenthe margins came in sight.ConfidenceHe comes and goes -he ebbs and flows -he leaves without a trace, but just then when you've lost all hopeyou'll find he's back in place.So, you'll proceedand you'll succeedand think you've got it down, but then find when you need him nexthe's nowhere to be found.
Rachel A Play in Three Acts
Rachel: A Play in Three Acts by Angelina Weld Grimk矇 is one of the earliest known plays written by an African American woman and one of the first to openly confront the realities of racism in the United States. First performed in 1916 and published in 1920, this groundbreaking work was originally written as a response to D. W. Griffith's racist film The Birth of a Nation and was intended to awaken national awareness of the cruelty of racial prejudice.Set in the early 20th century, the play follows Rachel Loving, a young Black woman whose compassion and sensitivity lead her to grapple with the moral pain of raising children in a racist society. Through Rachel's inner conflict and her relationships with family and community, Grimk矇 explores themes of motherhood, love, racial trauma, and moral resistance.With its powerful emotional depth and social critique, Rachel stands as a landmark of African American drama and early feminist literature. Grimk矇's work remains a vital contribution to both theatrical history and the long struggle for racial and gender equality.
Who Looks Outside Dreams
Who Looks Outside Dreams explores themes of transformation and becoming in poems that span a life, from childhood in Romania to motherhood in America, and asks what it means to live. Mona Zamfirescu's writing is the voice of someone who is profoundly aware of the terrors and limits of her present, the loneliness of motherhood, middle age and immigration.
Heartfelt Moments
Events in everyday circumstances may mold a person's outlook on what life is about.Enclosed in this book are trickles of expressed emotions displayed from an individual's viewpoint.The ideas about fate and the weight of violence hit harder than I expected.The book made me uneasy in a way that felt intentional. It wanted me to sit in the dark with him.And I did.
The Erotic Adventures of Gangsta Pussewillow
This book was inspired by the pursuit of a more vigorous and meaningful life . The transformation of heartbreak into healing and spiritual ecstasy. The creative that leaves you wanting to more. Enjoy! Peace.
Hometown and Other Poems
Divided into fifty-seven sections, 'Hometown' is an extraordinary work in the long tradition of the Great American Poem. The author's own compositions, interspersed with quotations from other famous writers and excerpts from historical documents and articles, including an old restaurant menu, create a living tapestry of the city of Denver from its frontier days to its foundation and beyond, woven together by the poet's unifying gaze and psychedelic imagination. Thirty years in the making, 'Hometown' was left unpublished at the death of its author, who regarded it as his most important work. Published here for the first time, alongside the rest of his poetry, including some uncollected pieces, this poem will restore Andrews's place among the great American poets of the twentieth century. Contains an introduction by Prof. John Burt, Brandeis University and an afterword by Michael Baird. Calder Publications was founded by John Calder in 1949, and became known for the edgy and avant-garde writers it was proud of having in its list. Calder Publications, an imprint of Alma Books, offers a list of books which will challenge and stimulate the serious readers.
Light Through the Leaves
Light Through the Leaves: Reflections on the Everyday Sacred is a reflective nature-centered poetry collection contributed by Gene Serianni. The author, through 55 poems, treats various subjects such as mindfulness, memory, love, nature, inner peace, personal growth, family, and the sacredness of everyday moments. Gentle introspection here acts in balance with the bright natural imagery: waterfalls, mountains, forests, oceans, and seasons that call upon the reader to slow down and reconnect with the quiet beauty outside and inside their being.
She Says It This Way
Tara K Howe is a Canadian/American writercurrently living in Moscow, Idaho. She speaks manylanguages - English. French. Science. Earth. Womb.Death. Birth. Body. Drum. - to explore the nature ofsomatic consciousness. "She Says It This Way " beganas an experiment in allowing form to serve as asupport structure that might recondition themind/body post-trauma. The project evolved into amicro-memoir, becoming its own container fromwhich to study the ways grammar, sound, rhythm andsyntax are ancestral-become home / of the earth.She has an MFA from the University of Idaho and herwork has been published in several journals.
Set the Bone
SET THE BONE is an uncompromising interrogation of contemporary womanhood-its trauma, quiet rage, and relentless search for healing. Confronting the forces that shape women from the inside out, this collection reckons with family, mental health, feminism, and the cost of surviving in a world determined to keep women contained.Both blistering and darkly funny, these poems challenge the political and social systems that police women's lives, bodies, and choices. With sharp insight and unapologetic honesty, SET THE BONE dismantles the myths of obedience, niceness, and silence, offering a defiant refusal to shrink or comply.At its core, this is a book about becoming-about motherhood and marriage, anger and tenderness, breaking cycles and claiming space. Bold, intimate, and brimming with urgency, SET THE BONE is both a reckoning and a rallying cry for anyone ready to stop apologizing and start telling the truth.
Many Moods of Life
Step into a world of words where laughter meets reflection, love meets loss, and everyday life takes centre stage.In this diverse collection of poems, Eddie Martin captures the rhythms and moods of life - from the humour of A Bit of a Joke to the heartache of Sad Times, the warmth of Romance to the wonder of Nature. Journey Down Under to Australia, drift through the Caribbean Scene, and pause to ponder the quirks of Life's Idiots.Written with honesty, wit, and a touch of whimsy, these poems celebrate the simple and the strange, the joyful and the thought-provoking. Whether you're in the mood for a laugh, a sigh, or a quiet moment of thought, you'll find something here that speaks to you.A companion for every mood - and a reminder that poetry can be as real, funny, and heartfelt as life itself.
Chinese Poetry from Zhou to Ming (1000BC-1647AD)
For generations, Arthur Waley's lyrical translations served as the primary gateway to Chinese poetry for the English-speaking world. Celebrated for rendering classical verse into enduring English poetry, his work reached both popular and scholarly audiencesThis volume presents a definitive chronological collection of Arthur Waley's seminal translations, Organized by dynasty, this edition transforms Waley's scattered masterpieces into a coherent historical journey through Chinese literature, from the ancient Zhou foundational texts to the twilight of the Tang. This structure reveals the evolving concerns of Chinese civilization, from ritual and statecraft to intimate personal reflection and profound philosophical inquiry, all through Waley's singular poetic voice.Waley, a self-taught scholar who never visited Asia yet won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, rendered classical verse into enduring English poetry, creating a bridge between scholarly precision and accessible artistry that continues to define the Western encounter with China's poetic heritage.From the solemn hymns of ancient courts to the wine-stained verses of Tang Dynasty taverns, this definitive volume opens a gateway to the golden age of Chinese poetry. It begins with the folk rituals and moral wisdom of the Zhou Book of Songs (Shijing) and the political elegies of the Han. A pivotal shift occurs in the Six Dynasties period, exemplified by the recluse poet T'ao Ch'ien (Tao Yuanming), whose verses on rustic solitude, farming, and wine established a paradigm of Daoist-inspired personal spirituality that Waley championed.This sets the stage for the Tang dynasty, China's poetic golden age. Here, the romantic genius of Li Po (Li Bai), the wandering Daoist immortal, dominates the High Tang period with his extravagant imagery and emotional intensity. The focus then shifts to the Mid and Late Tang, profoundly shaped by the populist master Po Ch羹-i (Bai Juyi). A reformist official, Po Ch羹-i crafted deliberately accessible, narrative verse concerned with social reality, governance, and personal loss.Witness the world through a lens of profound simplicity, feel the enduring human passions of solitude, friendship, loss, and delight, and discover the timeless voice of a civilization that found its purest expression in the perfect line.
Glimmer
Glimmer is a collection of poems designed to offer light in the darkness. Find hope in unlikely places, and remember the beauty of the world around you. Learn to look for the glimmers. Author Shannon Jade honours the power of poetry to make this world a brighter place, offering hope when we all need it most. Perfect for readers looking for new ways to prioritise joy, wonder, magic, and kindness. Here, hope is an act of rebellion, and the world is full of glimmers if you know where to find them. ***"Luminous and uplifting, Glimmer is a heartfelt collection of poems that invites readers to seek joy, beauty, and quiet magic in even the darkest moments-an inspiring reminder that hope is always within reach for those who choose to look." - NewInBooks
Lines and Time
Step into a world where memory glows like a lantern, creativity flows like the tide, and even winter's silence carries stories worth telling. Lines and Time: Reflections through Memories, Connections, and Becoming offers a collection of poems and short stories that speak to the soul. These pages trace the shape of a life through moments both fleeting and profound, mornings shared with hummingbirds, evenings warmed by firelight, and winters wrapped in wonder. With tenderness and wit, the collection explores the threads that bind us: family, friendship, loss, growth, and the joy of unexpected adventures. For those who listen for meaning in quiet places and find transformation in the ordinary.
Birds Soaring While Entrapped
I grieve with a sorrow as wide as the skies, Whispering prayers where the unseen lies.I shape my breath from the ache I wear, My heart held captive by its despair.I rise to verse only through pain's demand, As a dying soul takes death's hand
