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
At the Threshold of Two Letters
This is the second poetry collection by the Saudi poetAbdullah Al-Washmi, following his earlier collection TheSea and the Stormy Woman, which was his first. The poet'sexperience in these two works represents a poetic journeythat combines the traditional Khalili and modern taf'īlī(metrical) styles. He presented his poems in various forms, including the short poem and the very short poem, formsthat continued to appear in his later collections.A number of the poems in this collection illustrate boththe poet's own experience and that of his generation ofSaudi poets during that literary period
Arts and Sciences
Arts and Sciences is a unique poetry collection in that all the poems in it deal with figures, works, or events in literature, music, painting, film, or the sciences. Its poems cover a wide range, from Hamlet and Emily Dickinson to Sinatra and Bessie Smith, from Edward Hopper and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to gene therapy and quantum entanglement.
Doing Our Damndest
Stephanie Strange, the whimsically dark frontwoman of the beloved local avant-garde ensemble Strange & the Familiars, is trading the guitar and microphone for the printed page. Her debut collection, a raw fusion of short memoir and unfiltered poetry, offers a visceral roadmap through this mad world she has spent years navigating on stage.Known for her haunting vocals and theatrical storytelling, Strange's transition to literature feels less like a pivot and more like a stripping away of layers. Despite having never formally studied poetry, Strange possesses a rare, intuitive command of the medium. Her work ties together the jagged threads of politics, trauma, and the gritty realities of drug and alcohol abuse, weaving them into a tapestry that is as heartbreaking as it is hopeful.The collection serves as a companion to her musical legacy-encapsulating the overwhelming, often chaotic experience of modern existence. Strange represents herself as a perpetual loser, a title she wears with a mix of dark, wry humor and startling vulnerability.The book is defined by a unique juxtaposition of raw unflinching accounts of personal struggle and societal fracture, her wry self-deprecating wit that provides levity in the dark, and the tender childlike wonder that refuses to be extinguished by the weight of the world.
Thinking in Poetry
Part poetry compilation, part memoir, part tale of hope and courage, Thinking in Poetry: Stories From A Self-Evolution is an anthology that tells a story from the inside out. Divided into three broad phases, the tale starts with the voice of a young woman in a state of anguish, confusion, self-loathing and despair, and culminates in reclamations of self-identity, self-worth, self-love, and inner peace. Thinking in Poetry is an example of how one can use the fuel of life experience, and the spark of creativity, to light an inner fire of transformation. It is an example of how the transformative nature of our life journey can be explored and supported through creative expression to both cultivate and reveal our personal evolution. Written from a place of deep authenticity, the poems invite the reader to journey through feeling with the author, from disconnection towards reconnection.Thinking in Poetry Dr. Katie Ellyn
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I Lost Someone Then Found Them in My Body
For someone living with chronic illness, every minute the body is in a state of biological transitioning. Add in the constant shifting of menopausal hormones and we've got something really complex - and amazing. Varied in style but tight on voice and succinctly thematic, the poems in Heather Taylor-Johnson's seventh collection concern themselves with the astonishing and regular connection between the body and its surroundings - the social, political, cultural and environmental. The poems unsettle and hope, they reach and cling, and the outcome is a book as playful as it is full of weight.
Burns
In poems that capture the complexity of life as a transitioning Xicanx in a tumultuous Texas climate, SG Huerta's Burns balances the intrinsically human need for connection with the struggle to love oneself. Vivid images of half-empty bottles of testosterone gel and charred vegan grilled cheese form the backdrop for explorations of identity, orientation, grief, and an absent father across the full landscape of what it means to live. Embedded in a complicated family and pressures of assimilation, Huerta straddles liminal spaces with these poems: "I want to write / a queer poem without his ghost / reading it over my shoulder." Through sonnets, stream-of-consciousness, and lyrical narratives, Burns balances internal conflict and societal expectation. Anyone who has overshared with a cashier out of longing for a flash of acknowledgment across another's face will know the unresolved grief, love, and limitless self-discovery smoldering throughout Burns.
New Cemetery
ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR FROM THE GUARDIAN AND THE OBSERVER - From the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, a poem sequence that considers our use of the land that surrounds him, and recounts the personal tales of beauty and loss that play out on it A few years ago, in the poet's home county of West Yorkshire, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields near his home into a new cemetery. As the graveyard takes shape, its presence on the brow of the hill casts a lengthening shadow over the imagination and enlivens the poet's landscape, both inner and outer. These poems, in regular, cascading tercets, sparked into being as he daily walked the site, with moorlands rising beyond it and the wind turbines of Bront禱 country to the north. Eventually the muddy construction scene gives way to fresh headstones and mown lawns, and, during the COVID-19 lockdown, the spectacle of gravediggers in hazmat suits. The poet retreats to write in his garden shed, charting his losses, conversing fruitfully with the dead, and engaging the world in the perilous present. The sharply observed lyrics in New Cemetery--each fancifully named for a species of moth, a creature whose numbers the poet sees dwindling across a lifetime of night walks--remind us to turn a cool eye on the doings of man, and yet to embrace all we love while we still can, as "Time, what else," stands "propped in a corner / like a cricket bat."
The Kaleidoscope Behind Our Eyes Confessions of a Secret Kid
In a world that can't stop, this is for those who dare to pause. This book is an electric anthology of 21 richly-woven poems exploring this wild human experience like the soundtrack to your memories. You're holding a casually profound maverick mixtape for deep thinkers, daydreamers & fellow ADHD'ers. Cool, crisp lyrical lemonade to refresh your senses on those cozy, quiet days. Even if you hate poetry, just buy this book as firewood so we both stay warm! These are poems for curious minds & kind hearts navigating change, seeking meaning, and needing a little comfort in the chaos. This sincere collection is a creative force of nurture, turning your attention into undercover medicine.
Troublemaker
Laura Van Vorst's debut poetry collection celebrates the troublemaker within each of us, giving voice to grief, anger, awkwardness, anxiety, and crises of faith. It's a coming-of-middle-age that will be familiar to anyone who has shaken off old beliefs they've carried since childhood and ignited new ones, "choosing what to keep and what to leave; dying to get lost and found again." Troublemaker explores the sacred relationships we share with each other, with the divine, and with ourselves, and how these relationships create and save us more than our certainty ever did.PRAISE FOR TROUBLEMAKER"Troublemaker is a collection that keeps you on your toes. Challenging the idea of being a 'good girl, ' Laura Van Vorst's poems encourage us to be braver, bigger and more self-aware. This is a book that is full of grief, hope, love, friendship and joy, and most of all makes me want to skip into the light holding the label of 'too much' like a messy bouquet ready to be thrown out with power and with pride. I hold these poems like a secret note of self-assurance... This carefully crafted collection of poems is a battle cry, a spring in your step, and a gut punch that stings your teeth but leaves you giddy with the sugar rush of knowing yourself. I love these poems." Laurie BolgerAward-winning poet, founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club, and author of Lady. "Laura's poems haven't been written; they've been earned. Like the 'stretch marks' she writes of, these pieces bear witness to the growth that emerges through belief and doubt, grief and longing, asking and seeking, waiting and wandering. I felt the aching shadow of her father's passing, the primal force of labour and birth, the depth of a partner's love spanning big changes, and the liberating taste of more expansive beliefs taking root where old ones have passed away. It's a privilege to sit with these intimate and evocative portraits of a life moving through shifting seasons, like a garden wilting and blooming and coming alive, again and again."Will Small3X Australian Poetry Slam National Finalist, author of Poems for When the World is Ending and founding director of Lead by Story."Laura Van Vorst's Troublemaker is a rich, lyrical journey that carries the reader through faith, love, grief, womanhood, and the natural world with stunning precision and heart. Her bold, inquisitive voice leaves no aspect of the human experience untouched. Vulnerable, elegant, and inventive in form, this collection is a radiant and powerful treasure." Naomi Anne GoldnerWriter and Editor-in-Chief, Chariot Press Literary Journal "Troublemaker is a luminous and gut-honest exploration of what it means to question, grieve, love, and grow in the wild terrain of being human. With equal parts fire and tenderness, Laura Van Vorst traces the shifting seasons of a life, moving from the upheaval of rethinking long-held beliefs to the cold ache of loss, and into the warm, unruly bloom of love, friendship, and self-acceptance... Bold, intimate, and profoundly human, Troublemaker is a collection that doesn't just speak, it resonates long after the final page is turned."Stephanie LambEditor-in-Chief, Quillkeepers Press
Breaking Into Blossom
Breaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal DNA. In their introductory craft essay, co-editors Luke Hankins and Nomi Stone grapple with questions of closure, wholeness, pleasure, power, universalism, subjectivity, discord, exclusion, resistance, surprise, and bewilderment. Finding fracturing points in their own conversation while considering the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of different kinds of endings, the editors consider such questions as the value of epiphany, what kinds of endings might be likelier to be commodified, how the poem and the mind keep going beyond the page, and more. Hankins and Stone also offer a taxonomy of ending types to think with. This groundbreaking anthology includes poems about mystery, love, dread, cruelty, violence and war; poems of motherhood; of disability; of masculinity; of queerness; of baldness. Poems of transforming bodies and Black joy and failure and hope. The poems sometimes break into blossom; other times, they just break. Or they leave us in wonderment with their quiet buds unfolding into the world.
Discovering Sea Glass
Cathartic Craft Painted By Grown WisdomLayers upon layers of content are at our disposalin this part of the 21st century. Sitting down to thoughtfully write and step outside the realm of a messy digital world can become a tough task.What defines new? What defines compelling?What really grabs our attention?For anyone living within cultural transitions of the 2010s and 2020s, navigating life-especially after graduating college-can bring a lot of internal struggles and triumphs.In Brian Mahoney's second poetry book, Discovering Sea Glass, he explores rapid changes in life after college, the power of memory, milestones, self-awareness, and different people (real as well as fictitious) in unique circumstances.The relatable and thought-provoking breadth of Brian's poetry showcases artistic and personal growth in this book.
The Cherry Blossom Disposition
After the woman a man loved ends her life, he writes her a suicide letter. His mind's wild, desperate longing drags him through fragmented memories and pretty echoes - until he finds her once more. Together, they rewrite the letter.
Living With The Dead
In Living With The Dead, Marilyn Zelke Windau writes of life in her family's house, a large Victorian former funeral home. Soon after arriving in 1988, they began hearing eerie stories about the house from neighbors, former employees, and even a former funeral director. These encounters, along with the lingering sense of the home's past, inspired poems about family, memory, loss, and grief. This book about death celebrates life.
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.
Manx Reflections Issue 20
A collection of poems by writers with an island connection produced by the members of The Isle of Man Poetry Society
Blast Sky
Flashpoint conflict, cold wars and failed electricity - just another day in the suburbs. Poems in Blast Sky wander in the desert and wonder about the cargo of the semi in the next lane. Signed copies might be stashed in fallout shelters of the nearest buildings - if such things exist anymore ...
Hymns of a Mountain Girl
A collection of poetry and prose reflecting love, heartbreak and the true events through verses. Despite being written by a female author, the poems reflect the feelings of both the genders by splitting the book into one of the sections called Pronouns. The author expresses the feelings through the perspective of I, He and She. Apart from love, the author has also written about some real incidents which occurred in her native place, Quetta, Pakistan.
Horizons Beyond the Horizon
Although arguably best known for his writings on the weird and paranormal, Michael Goss's private passion was poetry. After his death in 2024, a large collection of his poetry came to light. This selection of his poems is the first to appear in print.Nature, Art, Literature, Football, Life as well as poems with a supernatural feel are all represented in an eclectic collection from a gifted writer of diverse interests and fascinations. Michael Goss approaches his subjects in a unique, often humorous way that helps us to see, think and feel differently about the everyday, as well as the deeper mysteries of our hopes, fears and dreams: Horizons Beyond the Horizon.
Howling Grief
This book is about grief. It will touch everyone who has lost someone they loved. Karyn writes from the heart with painful honesty, expressing her experience of losing her husband, the love of her life. She eloquently conveys her pain, self-discovery and appreciation for her beloved husband, and speaks to her new life going forward without him. Karyn's poems show us that we must each navigate grief on our own terms. Her writing is rich... heart-wrenching at times, but always honest and often inspirational. Her poems will touch the hearts of all of us - those who have grieved, those who continue to grieve, and those who will face this journey at some point in the future Geri Mose Mahrt, fellow grief-support group member"Karyn Vampotic has frequently shared her poems with the bereavement support group that I facilitate each week. The participants in the group find the poems to be immensely powerful and profoundly accurate in reflecting their own loss and grief. As the leader, I can see that her reading of these poems brings comfort and is a source of healing for the group. I continue to thank her for the inspiration they provide and grateful for her willingness to share her very personal anguish. Karyn is a brilliant poet. I believe that Karyn's poetry has been a therapeutic gift to the group
The Genius and the Jester
"The Genius and the Jester, Crossed paths by chance one day. They knew each other from the court, But never had parleyed." Four lines, two rhymes, that introduce, By way of a quatrain, Two characters who asked of me, Just who on earth were they? And what was it that they should do? What was their history? Where would they go, who would they meet? They seemed to say to me. So, if you have the interest, And then a little time, Their unexpected adventure, You'll find here told in rhyme. For the world a new history, Which I commend to you; Hoping it is interesting Enough to see it through.
Marriage Is Just Two People Googling Separately
Marriage Is Just Two People Googling Separately is a humorous and heartfelt poetry collection about long-term love, communication, conflict, and the quiet grace it takes to stay.Written for couples to read together, these poems explore the everyday realities of marriage-arguments that start over small things, silences that last too long, late-night searching for answers, counseling conversations, apologies, forgiveness, and choosing each other again. With warmth and wit, the book names what many couples experience but rarely articulate.Rather than offering advice or quick fixes, this collection creates space for recognition and conversation. The humor disarms, the poetry slows the pace, and the honesty invites couples to talk without blame or shame.Informed by pastoral experience and counseling insight, the book is widely suitable for couples at any stage of their relationship and is often recommended by counselors, pastors, and group facilitators as a shared reading resource.Accessible, reflective, and quietly hopeful, Marriage Is Just Two People Googling Separately reminds readers that love does not need to be perfect-it simply needs to keep choosing.
anOther Nemesis
This dark and thought-provoking poetry collection is co-authored by four multi-award winning authors and poets, Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon and Maxwell I. Gold.anOther Nemesis unravels sinister speculative poems themed The Colonizers, Primal Sources, Nameless Others and Crooked Ontologies. It reconnoitres words as weapons, reshaping to the unworldly, casting transfigurations of that which was never meant to be changed, and featuring poignant behind-the-poems by each poet. The extraordinary assemblage interrogates the ways cultures, language, information, and the lack thereof are used as means of control; how voices will always rise against systems that rewrite identity, suppress truth, and silence dissent; the distinctions of purity and diffusion and the infinite number of fates upon which our existence is simultaneously contingent; how ubiquitous indifference can sometimes be the cruelest villain of them all . . . and more!
From the Belly
From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Volume III Rooms concludes the comprehensive compilation of poets' responses to the entirety of Stein's book-length poem. In work of their own, 29 poets respond to stanzas from the section "Rooms," perhaps the most political and narrative section of Stein's Modernist masterpiece. The editors have left space for the reader to join the conversation with writing of their own.Says Jan Freeman, "This provocative and surprising final volume of Karren Alenier's three-part series of contemporary American poets responding to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons offers readers a deep immersion into the classic celebration of Modernism. Through these poetic conversations between 29 American poets and Stein, readers experience Stein's wild questions, statements, and observations accompanied by a wide range of voices responding to each stanza of 'Rooms, ' including stellar poems by Sheila Black, Tracy Brimhall, Jeddy Sophronius, Jenna Nesky, Lisa Sewall, Sandy Yannone, and Alenier herself. This collection creates its own 21st century structure comprised of rooms and echoes propelled from Stein's exploration of order, disorder, and the spaces that separate, become, and inhabit us."The full list of authors included is: Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Karren L. Alenier, Nathalie Anderson, E.J. Antonio, Anne Becker, Tara Betts, Sheila Black, Traci Brimhall, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Ellen Aronofsky Cole, Henry Crawford, T. De Los Reyes, Majda Gama, Le Hinton, W. Luther Jett, Jacqueline Johnson, AJ Leigh, M. Mack, Ed Madden, Nino McQuown, Jenna Nesky, Jean Nordhaus, Lisa Sewell, Jeddie Sophronius, Alina Stefanescu, Julie Marie Wade, Fritz Ward, Sandra Yannone, and Katherine E. Young
The Genius and the Jester
"The Genius and the Jester, Crossed paths by chance one day. They knew each other from the court, But never had parleyed." Four lines, two rhymes, that introduce, By way of a quatrain, Two characters who asked of me, Just who on earth were they? And what was it that they should do? What was their history? Where would they go, who would they meet? They seemed to say to me. So, if you have the interest, And then a little time, Their unexpected adventure, You'll find here told in rhyme. For the world a new history, Which I commend to you; Hoping it is interesting Enough to see it through.
Poor
Winner of the Forward Prize and chosen as a Book of the Year by The Guardian and the BBC, a career-launching collection combining poetry and photography that explores the hopes and hazards of being young and Black in South London. What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at thirteen because "you fit the description of a man"--and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground? In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams, and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first-century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of towering concrete walls and fast-gentrifying neighborhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and exalts the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives. A sensation upon its 2020 release in England, Poor is a tribute to the world that shaped the singular voice of this poet, and to the people finding the magic amid the difficulties they face. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: "I have never loved anything the way I love the endz."
My Love Weeps
My Love Weeps is a poetry collection that captures the beauty and ache of love in a world where romance often feels forgotten. With poems that highlight love and desire and poems that touch on heavy topics like abuse and heartbreak, My Love Weeps imparts raw emotion and honest reflection and reminds us that yearning, longing, and passion still pulse deeply within this generation. Divided into three sections-My Love, MySelf, and My Weeps-Astrus* takes readers on a journey through his own experiences: from falling in love, to finding himself, to facing heartbreak. As a young adult navigating the same struggles and emotions as his readers, Astrus* writes with a voice that feels both intimate and universal. This book is for the true lovers, for the ones healing, for those who have felt pain before, and to the generation that feels as if romance is dead. Whether you're in love, heartbroken, or still searching for what those feelings mean, My Love Weeps offers something to hold onto. Because poetry is alive-and so is longing.
Night Shift in Perfect English
2024 Winner of the Two Languages Book Award. Mina Khan's debut collection Night Shift in Perfect English is a tender, album-like retelling of the immigrant family post-American Dream. Drawing upon her Korean-Pakistani heritage, Khan discusses the NYC bodega in a gentrifying neighborhood, the aging body, and a rapidly deteriorating climate; Everyday violences-and the vivid joys that persevere. Mingling ghost-like family photo album with poems and fragments of a screenplay, this collection echoes history, memory, and coming-of-age in layers.
100 Poems & Possibilities for Healing, Volume 3
Poetry with Purpose and a Mission to Help You Experience What's Possible100 Poems & Possibilities for Healing Volume 3 is a journey with your soul guided by the hearts and poetic passions of our authors. The real stories, purposeful poetry, and inspiring prompts will help you feel your way through the journey, discover who you are, and find your authentic voice. This is way more than a book. You're now diving into our generous community of healers, lightworkers, artists, and conscious, compassionate humans. This powerful world-changing collaboration (and book series) from poets around the globe supports our non-profit partner, The InkWell, which serves youth with therapeutic writing and self-discovery programs. Enjoy the journey!
What Remains After the Fire
To every woman who has endured what should have broken her.Time, that strange and tender animal, softened the sharpest edges.And I, weary of holdingonly the wound, began to turn the blade into a mirror.In What Remains After the Fire, Maki Motapanyane gently explores themes of rupture, survival, and the quiet work of reassembling the self, drawing on her personal experience to peel back the layers of time, memory, and healing for readers.Motapanyane's poems are not memoir, but they are true, gathered into four arcs: Wound, Return, Kin, and Sanctum. Each poem is shaped by Motapanyane's life as a daughter, mother, survivor, and scholar, as she makes sense of the world from within its deep contradictions.
Sometimes, I Almost
Sometimes love doesn't end all at once.Sometimes it fades, fractures, and leads you into the wrong hands before you realize you're lost.Sometimes, I Almost is a contemporary heartbreak poetry collection about falling out of love, loving the wrong person, and learning how to choose yourself again. These poems move through loss, longing, missteps, and the quiet aftermath of emotional unraveling, capturing the space where desire blurs and clarity finally sharpens.Written for anyone who has loved deeply and survived it, this book explores what it means to let go, to grieve what almost was, and to find self-acceptance on the other side of heartbreak. These are poems about falling out of love, about staying too long, and about the courage it takes to walk away when love is no longer safe or true.This is emotional contemporary poetry for readers seeking healing after heartbreak, for those who have loved the wrong person and are learning how to come home to themselves.Because the wrong love can still lead you home.
Things I Meant to Say
Things I Meant to Say is a collection about the quiet truths we carry-grief that softens with time, love that reshapes us, and the small courage it takes to keep moving through the world with an open heart.In these poems, Lindsay Crawford writes with a rare gentleness, offering an intimate look at the moments that define us: motherhood, memory, loss, forgiveness, and the way a lake can hold more than we realize-it can hold everything we're not ready to say out loud. Honest and vulnerable, this book is a reminder that we are shaped not only by what we live through, but by what we finally learn to name. These poems reach for light, even in the hardest places.
The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens
What does love look like in life's later chapters? In this tender, mischievous new collection, Zack Rogow answers with the hard-won wisdom of a man newly single in his senior years. From the awkward hilarity of reentering the world of romance, to the sweetness of new connections, to the lively chaos of grandchildren, these poems celebrate aging with humor, grace, and an open heart. With deep affection - for all that has gone, all that remains, and all that still lies ahead - Rogow reminds us that desire, intimacy, and joy are ageless companions.
Among Sinners and Saints
Aileen Bassis's poetry collection, Among Sinners and Saints, builds on her lifelong practice as a visual artist. Bassis draws the reader to share her humane and empathic gaze through evocative language and striking imagery. Her poems explore a multitude of connections-from Greek mythology to French cinema, the pain and joy of love and marriage, to the ever present realities of grief and hope. She raises questions for us all and seeks to find meaning in our shared humanity in this, our fraught and divided time.
White Winged Doves
The witchy goddess of rock has been casting a spell on music lovers for more than 50 years as a solo artist and a member of the iconic Fleetwood Mac. In this anthology, poets explore the myth, the music, and the enduring legacy of Stevie Nicks. From haunting ballads of heartache to empowering anthems of liberation, this collection of poems in White Winged Doves embraces the wild spirit and introspective depth synonymous with Nicks' artistry. Poets channel her iconic imagery and fierce individuality, crafting an homage that resonates with both tribute and innovation. This book invites readers to wander through the witchy realms of dreaming and desiring, exploring the mystical landscapes and emotional depths that continue to define Nicks' legendary career. Each poem weaves a tapestry of resilience and enchantment that mirrors the timeless muse herself.
Time Escapes
Joseph Esposito takes you on a journey through time, through poetry and story. Come find peace and promise through God in the pages of Time Escapes. Time escapes a little bit each moment of every day. Each new day is a gift from God, not to be wasted. The morning sunrise is a precious bonus, missed by many. Like a perfect cup of tea, it should be savored.The older we become, the more swiftly time seems to pass. As a youth, it seems like we will never reach those milestones we long for. In our later years, we marvel at how quickly we flew past them. Now we look for ways to escape the ever-increasing passage of time; to create better strategies to capture and manage our time.Because I can do what comes to mind, I have a mind of a different kind.Because I can feel the unseen power, I can recreate by the hour.Because I can listen to what must be heard, I can hang on to your every word.Because I can do what is right, some may like to argue and fight.Because I can find power when I am weak, I can listen when the Lord chooses to speak.Because I can revel in the moment, I can stay straight and never get bent.
Poetry to Read in the Graveyard
Harboring the best poems on mortality, phantoms, death, loss, melancholy, and the night, "Poetry to Read in a Graveyard" features poets such as: the Bront禱 sisters, Dickinson, Thomas Gray, Keats, Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Shelly, and more. With 29 poets and 88 poems spanning 366 pages, you'll find this anthology to be the perfect companion to your somber strolls through headstones and picnics beneath cypress trees.
What Remains After the Fire
To every woman who has endured what should have broken her.Time, that strange and tender animal, softened the sharpest edges.And I, weary of holdingonly the wound, began to turn the blade into a mirror.In What Remains After the Fire, Maki Motapanyane gently explores themes of rupture, survival, and the quiet work of reassembling the self, drawing on her personal experience to peel back the layers of time, memory, and healing for readers.Motapanyane's poems are not memoir, but they are true, gathered into four arcs: Wound, Return, Kin, and Sanctum. Each poem is shaped by Motapanyane's life as a daughter, mother, survivor, and scholar, as she makes sense of the world from within its deep contradictions.
The Night of Swaying Grass
63 poems spanning 63 years, The Night of Swaying Grass: A Memoir in Poems is the debut poetry collection of R. Diskin Black, and tells the story of his life beginning in 1963. It is a story of childhood loss and grief, a story of coming of age and coming out, a story of resilience and reinvention. And ultimately, it is a story of New York City, one of eight million tales told in that city every year.
Diary of E.A.Provost
E. A. Provost follows up her popular chapbook, 'Love, Joy, & Pees' with a full-length collection of her engaging and relatable poetry, accompanied by a vibrant selection of works from her last decade painting 'Encounter Art' at Vertical Call. She invites the reader into her life through poems about motherhood and the delights of raising children in the first half of the book called 'The Light Side, ' and through poems about intimacy, depression, pain, death, and trying again in the second half called 'The Dark Side.' In the print edition 'The Light Side' proceeds from the pink primary cover, then the book flips upside down and 'The Dark Side' proceeds from the green secondary cover. In the ebook edition 'The Dark Side' follows 'The Light Side' in the regular upright direction.
Pythons Tutorial
Python Tutorial: Poems on Rebooting Society is a collection focused on change. This book challenges readers to think critically about the systems we accept. It asks whether real change is possible, or if we're all just repeating the same mistakes. From the Russian Counterrevolution to American Emancipation, these poems address historical moments spanning centuries and continents, capturing how we are often failed by our own greed, fear, and vanity. However, Tarkelly doesn't just look backwards. He also turns his attention to modern problems: technology that tracks us, money that controls us, and leaders who promise change but only ever deliver compromise.This collection of poetry is for anyone who has ever wondered if things could be different, if we could build a society worth waking up in.
Soul Vagina
Soul Vagina is a debut collection from the fearless South African poet Nomxolisi Ndlangana who takes the reader on a woman's pilgrimage to the core of self identity. The work speaks of a love of self and the love of another as the author masterfully synthesizes the nuances and complexities of a five-year relationship into a single poem.Soul Vagina is a daring exploration of sexual freedom that transports the reader to a realm of physical and emotional duality through a journey of love. Each poem, imaginatively encapsulates elements of beauty, struggle, and revelations. And with each step, the collection reveals a deeper surprise while redefining sex along the way.
Blood On Blood
Devin Kelly's Blood on Blood is a poetic re-imagination of Bruce Springsteen's seminal album Nebraska. Using characters from the songs and the near-violent, desolate, and longing themes of American life that populate Springsteen's album, Blood on Blood tells a story of family, of loss and love, of violence and resurrection.
The Girl with a Thousand Eyes
THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND EYES takes the YA reader, bordering on the verge of adulthood through a poignant journey of life's unexpected spirit-lifting triumphs and trials of personal transformation. From New York City club life and LGBTQ love poems to existential reflections on transmigration, Ji Strangeway's poetic verses reveal a heartfelt narrative of self-discovery. Alliterative lines, bold stanzas and lulling metaphors awaken the dreaming psyche with promise and lead us poem by poem, toward the heart of the divine. Strangeway invites you to lose the notion of all things transitory and trivial, to discover what really matters in this life: unseen beauties that keep the golden flame in our souls kindled.
Rollercoasters & Bedsheets
Rollercoasters & Bedsheets is an anthology of sex in minutes. This curated collection showcases the variety of sex behind closed doors. Be it fast or slow, these poems explore self-identify, the experimentation with truth and fantasy, and flirt with the boundaries of sexual expression. These shared experiences from around the globe seek to expand your paradigms of relationships in the bedroom. Discover new safe words to better articulate your sexual journey. Remember, normality is a fallacy.
pulchritudinous
from shiloh ivy comes a brand new collection of carefully constructed poems that describe the ups and downs, but most of all, the beauty of life itself.
