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Poetry
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Poetic People Power
by Tara BraccoFor 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday lives and the world around us. This debut anthology invites readers to explore three of their shows about environmental heroes, women’s voices, and human rights abuses. The book features work by 12 poets: Bogar Alonso, Suzen Baraka, Tara Bracco, Shanelle Gabriel, Philippe Javier Garcesto, Karla Jac... more -
My Odes to Jeri: Our Rhymes and Our Reasons
by Michael BoyajianThe author’s love poetry for and about his late wife Jeri before and after her untimely passing ."I want to close my eyes and when I open them be with you again traveling together through time and space," - the Author.
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The Dystopia Factory
by Richard DoyleThe Dystopia Factory is Richard Doyle's first collection of poetry and flash fiction, following his first two pamphlets The Death of the Sentence and Machine Journey. Travel the road from Slough to Mars. Discover wild visions, strange tales and machine futures. Science in the novel; science fiction in the real world. Scramble your way to the perfect stroke.
Marvel at the multifarious moons of Saturn, experience the death and life of Robert Hooke, discover a stone com... more
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calling on all the wild things
by Karli CrispinThis collection of poetry is about the author finding her wild in a world that wishes for her to be tame. This collection highlights the female experience under a patriarchal society, and how we can create a more inclusive world that provides liberation regardless of gender. -
Words Left Unspoken
by J.A. McGovernThe reader is invited to embark on a poetic odyssey through life's complexities in Words Left Unspoken-an exploration of silence, wisdom, and universal resonance. Would you like to take a walk through the inner city, lie down in a sunny meadow, savour time with nature and family? All these moments, and more, are captured within J.A. McGovern's first poetry collection. McGovern's poems urge us to take to the road for wild adventures, to question ideas of life and death, and to learn through... more -
We Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep
by Thomas KneelandWe Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and restore color to the white-washed notions about the dark and terrifying facets of American history. -
Red, White & Verse
by Greg McNeillyRED, WHITE & VERSE: Our Myths, Legends & Stories written by Greg McNeilly. America - The Beautiful, Brave and Bold. By depicting our nation’s long legacy of inspiring figures, landmarks, and events, this poetry collection enlivens modern perceptions of the stories all Americans are raised on. Even more notably, it rejuvenates our sense of connection to each other and our history. Written with his three children in mind, Red, White & Verse by breakout author Greg McNeilly forgets “an unflinch... more -
An Owl's Tales
by Al TenhundfeldLife is a trail of crossing paths, some barely noticed, others with profound impacts. Did Santa bring that special football or the right Barbie doll? Did you pass that tough high school teacher’s course? Remember your first love? Was the pound puppy with sad but hopeful eyes ever chosen? Was the homeless beggar on the corner worth helping? The paths of Santa and teachers and loves and others who need help influence the course of our path, some for good, others not so much. But all of your paths ... more -
Hatred Is Just Love Gone Wrong
by Meg MackenziesView each poem as a short story. A chapter. A new topic to learn or lesson to share. Stories of heartbreak and growth and finding the next step. -
Gone Before: A Grief Journey in Poems
by Ruth FanshawRuth lost her mum in 2020. For the last 6 years of her life she'd been living in Ruth's home, and they'd become very close.
Writing these poems was a vital part of Ruth's grief journey, helping her to process the enormity of her loss and to work through her deep pain, finally coming to a place of acceptance, comfort, and healing.
This book invites the reader to walk that road with Ruth, in the hope that it will be a help to them on... more
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Flying Free: Poems for Pilgrim Hearts
by Ruth Fanshaw40 Christian poems and a song about growth, healing, and the quest for wholeness. Intertwining the metaphors of pilgrimage and flight, the book explores the joys and challenges of life's journey with Jesus, leading to personal experience of God's faithfulness. -
Lost in the Sound: Finding Clarity in the Noise
by Meghan DilleyJust over 2 years ago I began my journey with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. Through the struggles there have been times where I thought I would be unable to continue the things I enjoyed: work, soccer, volunteering, socializing. The triggers of April 6, 2020 continued but lessened. I am still brought back to that day by everyday triggers that act as a reminder. When it happens I revisit that beautiful, sunny day where I was redeployed to the makeshift morgue and saw the atrocities of... more -
Mental Health, Poetry, and I
by Brendon FeeleyMental Health, Poetry, and I is a compilation of original poems, which delivers an unsparing view on trials and tribulations we all experience, including mental health issues, depression, anxiety, love, life, and loss. The unforgiving delivery of the poetry grants a unique insight into the effects of mental health issues on individuals and their relationships. -
The Poems of Everyday
by VIKAS PARIHARThe Poems of Everyday by Vikas Parihar is a collection of original poetry that is primarily in free verse. It navigates themes of temporal existence and the struggle to find permanence within transient emotions and experiences. Take, for instance, A Preoccupied Man, which dissects the paradox of wanting to live in the present while being ensnared by past regrets and future worries. It critiques societal pressures and the constant battle against time, ultimately painting a poignant picture of the... more -
Broken Glass
by Sarah KeyA Jewish poetry collection on finding love, going through turmoil, and facing history. -
Forever Speaking
by Carolyn A. StovallListening to that still small voice. God is always here with us; trying to get our attention. Forever Speaking is a book consist of poems downloaded through dreams and visions sometimes in the most imitate times of prayer or the quiet moments. Written to share with others to help bring about healing to those who read. As children of God with an listening ear, the more we listen the more we hear the more we see clearer we’re set free to live life to the fullness.