Hubris
A Collection of stories written by Shebat Legion. These tales range in genre, but all share the quirky and thought-provoking, often disturbing voice that is Legion. Hubris, a collection of short stories, new and previously published are offered as an example of the eclectic range and style that is Legion's own.
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.
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 ...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Phantastes
"... the same book made one man a Christian while making another a Pagan, and thus is its strange power: capable, through subtle magics, of waking you like its protagonist into a wholly different cosmos."-- Rhyd Wildermuth, from his IntroductionRenowned for inspiring C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald's haunting novel, Phantastes ("fantasies") is also a powerful magical guide to the imaginal realms and the alchemical exploration of the human psyche.Ritona and Sul Books are pleased to offer this edition of George MacDonald's transformative work with an introduction and elucidations by Druid author Rhyd Wildermuth (author of Being Pagan and A People's Guide to Tarot).
Quetzalcoatl
QUETZALCOATL: The Feathered Serpent is the origin myth of Mexico. In this story, Quetzalcoatl is driven out of Egypt by the deadly rage of his ambitious brother. He sails to the Yucatan and restarts life in a world recovering from a global cataclysm.He builds a magnificent civilization in Mexico and becomes the most revered god of the fourth age. This book shines a new light on the myth and on the man whose work defined an era of history. His life showed us the miracles that are possible when we evolve. This tale is magic for adults.
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.
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.
To Dance with the Fae
The beat is an aching itch, a bone-deep need to dance. He turns and pulls me into his rhythm, light on my feet, flying in time with the sound of my heartbeat, the brush of the music, the rush of his movement. To Dance with the Fae is a collection of fairy tale retellings and fairy tale adjacent short stories crossing a variety of genres and settings. Here you will find a Baltimore woman with six unruly pigeon brothers, a nanny who is Very Tired of her job, a young girl with nightmares of a gingerbread house in the forest, a lonely woman seeking her home. There are scattered breadcrumbs, a wisp of sea foam, diamonds, and maybe even a few shoes. This collection includes the popular "Forged in Iron and Blood," as well as a previously unpublished sequel. It is a powerful thing to dance with the fae.
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
Quetzalcoatl
QUETZALCOATL: The Feathered Serpent is the origin myth of Mexico. In this story, Quetzalcoatl is driven out of Egypt by the deadly rage of his ambitious brother. He sails to the Yucatan and restarts life in a world recovering from a global cataclysm.He builds a magnificent civilization in Mexico and becomes the most revered god of the fourth age. This book shines a new light on the myth and on the man whose work defined an era of history. His life showed us the miracles that are possible when we evolve. This tale is magic for adults.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Proud Jenny Jay
In this enchanting new collection of original short stories, Proud Jenny Jay brings the corvids of British folklore to vivid life. Ravens, crows, magpies, jackdaws, and jays step out from the shadows of myth to claim stories of their own.From windswept moors to ancient woodlands, these tales reimagine the legendary birds of as cunning tricksters, quiet guardians, fearless wanderers, and seekers of truth. At the heart of the collection is Jenny Jay, a bold and curious spirit who, like many of her kin, must learn that real power comes not from mimicry or borrowed splendour, but from embracing one's true self.Woven with magic and grounded in centuries of folklore, Proud Jenny Jay is a lyrical celebration of transformation, identity, and the age-old stories whispered in feather and wind. Ideal for lovers of fable, fantasy, and the enduring mystery of the natural world.
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.
Proud Jenny Jay
In this enchanting new collection of original short stories, Proud Jenny Jay brings the corvids of British folklore to vivid life. Ravens, crows, magpies, jackdaws, and jays step out from the shadows of myth to claim stories of their own.From windswept moors to ancient woodlands, these tales reimagine the legendary birds of as cunning tricksters, quiet guardians, fearless wanderers, and seekers of truth. At the heart of the collection is Jenny Jay, a bold and curious spirit who, like many of her kin, must learn that real power comes not from mimicry or borrowed splendour, but from embracing one's true self.Woven with magic and grounded in centuries of folklore, Proud Jenny Jay is a lyrical celebration of transformation, identity, and the age-old stories whispered in feather and wind. Ideal for lovers of fable, fantasy, and the enduring mystery of the natural world.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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!
When It Starts to Hurt
When life starts to hurt, what do you do? Do you let the pain destroy you or do you become stronger and conquer it? Come take this bittersweet journey with Rama, as she examines emotions we are often told to ignore--our ability to feel, understand and deal with pain. When It Starts to Hurt is composed of three parts that explore how we talk about (or never talk about) death, addiction, mental illness, and harmful relationships. No topic is too sensitive, or taboo, as Rama challenges the idea of normality and formality, with blunt, laconic and poignant poems.
When It Comes to Love
What does it mean to love unconditionally?Or simply, to believe in love?Employing the voices of child, mother, friend, sister, and lover, When It Comes to Love unveils why loving someone is worth the risk even when at times you don't recognize the person you've become.Written with passionate, heart-felt, and bittersweet poems, When It Comes to Love shows there are no limits to heartache and forgiveness as old lovers unite, and friends and families grapple with intricate emotional ties.Despite the tempestuous uncertainty in relationships, is love the ultimate prize in life?Decide for yourself in this collection of poems.When It Comes to Love sees all the sides of love...
Home From The Banks
A book of poems from a native New Englander. Home From The Banks offers wit, feeling, and lyrical insight from a keen observer of life. This is a remarkable collection from a remarkable man. Raybold, who grew up in Mattapoisett, Mass., served as Chairman of the English Department at Middlesex School in Concord, Mass., where he instilled a love of language in his students. His poems reflect not only that love of language and turn of phrase, but his love of life and those around him. Live, laugh, and shed a tear as this poet takes you on a stroll with the people, places, and pooches we all can relate to, from Bread Loaf 1962 and to Fun in the Rain and Soap Opera to 45th Reunion and Home from the Banks. From Mattapoisett to San Diego. What's like . . . his dog licking the raindrops running down the outside pane? The reader is left pondering that and other mysteries we encounter in our daily lives.
Same As Me
We travel through life feeling isolated and alone, yearning for a deep, unwavering connection with a special soul created just for us. What happens when we stumble upon such a connection but life or circumstance prevent us from exploring the one we find solace in? How do we face loss brought upon by something other than death but in fact life? Perhaps you have a heart that aches, a space that is never filled? Possibly a love or loss that haunts your minutes all day long?Same as Me was written for those who have experienced the incredible blessing of finding authentic and undeniable love, only to have life, death or unexpected circumstance snatch it away far too soon. The poetry within represents a journey of the heart, a sacred pilgrimage of discovery. An experience of being fortuitously led to a unique spirit. A spirit which somehow effortlessly mirrored its own and conclusively impacted the deepest parts of the soul. Capturing not only the euphoria that accompanies a soul connection but also, the depths of agony brought about by helplessly watching it slip away. Same as Me is an expedition of ascension. Ultimately summoning the strength to rise from the shadowy absence of what could have been, to a place of peace, indebted and grateful instead for what was.
The Taste of Flesh
These poems by award-winning author Dennis Hathaway are meditations on life and death through a variety of perspectives. In the title poem, a man reading about shipwrecked sailors driven to cannabilism is led to reflect on a particularly intense time of his youth. In The Promised Land, the boundless optimism of youth is captured in the observations of a young man escaping the Midwest for California, while Southern California (Revised) paints a disturbing picture of that iconic place's future. In Documents of War and The Harrying of the North, official documents and a famous tapestry are used to illustrate the distance most of us maintain from the grim realities of war. The spectacles of natural worlds both large and small are lyrically evoked in River of Wind and Fauna, while the abiding love between a man and his wife is the subject of The Path, The Philosophy of Love and several other poems that combine sharp observation of the everyday details of life with flights of imagination. But despite the seriousness of subject matter, many of the 25 poems in this collection have an ample seasoning of humor, from the overt in Money and Queen of Spades" to the more subtle in Memory and Santa Inez.
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.
Gather Together
"the last time i prayedabout my life, what did god say to me?"In this deeply personal and thought-provoking collection, poetry becomes a space for grief, longing, love, and survival. Each verse carries the weight of memory and the hope of renewal, guiding readers through quiet mornings, heavy nights, and the moments in between.Through raw and lyrical reflections, the poet explores the ache of loss, the beauty of faith, and the search for meaning in a world that shifts like the wind. From mourning a mother's absence to questioning the nature of love and time, these poems speak with a voice both tender and unyielding.This is a journey through sorrow and strength, madness and clarity, past and present. This is poetry that lingers - like a whispered prayer, like the hush before the storm.
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.
A Dandy Wish
What is it about a wish that sets our hearts afloat? The very act of making it creates a space for hope.What do you wish, deep down inside? When you toss a penny in a well, do you dream that it will come to life? When you spy a dandelion, is it a wish simply waiting to fly?A Dandy Wish was written for those who nurture and love their playful side; for those who see wishes rather than weeds and, most importantly, the beauty and possibilities in everything.
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.
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.
It's Just You & Me, Mr. Moon
"In the first poem of this collection, Peter Hamer shows us Weldon Kees at his typewriter, making art "for a future that looks/as empty and bleak/as the present"--thereby flashing Kees out of the mid-twentieth century into our time. Here are the haze of cigarette smoke, the taste of whiskey, jazz on the soundtrack, walk-ons by Pope Francis and Frida Kahlo, and locations chosen or invented by Hamer, the poet-director. Here is his version of Kees' shadow/symbol . . . presented as an obsession. These poems about Kees offer mysteries, deeply appropriate for a man whose life story includes his sudden disappearance in 1955--a mystery still, serving here as a touchstone for Hamer's poetry." --Judith Arcana"Peter Hamer's debut explores a groundbreaking potential for mystery. Lines like, "Sounds of the harbor clanked around us. / Salt breeze carried a tang of diesel / and sewage. / A clock chimed some ways off. / He checked his watch. Cinderella hour" bring this poetical film noir to life. For the reader interested in both story and lyricism, It's Just You & Me, Mr. Moon is in a revelatory league of its own." --Hannah Beresford, Poetry Editor at No Tokens
Beyond The 'After' Life
Steven Bates lives a busy life working with non-profits for suicide prevention, helping others with PTSD to obtain service dogs, and running his own non-profit to comfort those who suffer from mental illness. Those experiences have inspired his poetry. He wrote it with the sincere hope to honor those who sacrificed for their country and to remind those who struggle of how they can thrive in the face of adversity.
