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If There Is No Wind

by Margaret R. Sáraco

If There Is No Wind is a collection of poems that include a variety of themes, including family, love, and activism, that are both thought-provoking and humorous. The title is from one poem in the collection, “If Wind Were Erased from Earth,” which examines what it would be like if wind disappeared because of climate change. Some poems unearth grief and loss, while others exalt in the beautiful world we live in. Sometimes examining the randomness of human cruelty can frankly be too hard. The boo... more

Instructions of the Spirit: 50 Poems & Intimations

by D. Patrick Miller

Well-known journalist and essayist D. Patrick Miller offers a revised collection of 50 poems and “intimations” celebrating the challenges and mysteries of spiritual experience.

Your Soul Awakens the Sunset

by Françoise Hélène

Inspired by the heart of an old soul, Françoise Hélène walks readers through an inward journey of truth that explores the profundities of human existence and spiritual awakening. Your Soul Awakens the Sunset delivers thought-provoking insight that allows readers to meditate on intimate life experiences, and empowers healing of the heart, spirit and mind. It’s an ode to healing wounds, faded scars, and childhood dreams. This collection is an adventure through the darkest and lightest parts o... more

Infinite Sea of Stars: poetry to open the heart & wake the inner Divine

by Shannon Crossman

Infinite Sea of Stars is steeped in sacred outpourings that inspire, awaken, and liberate. Meditative to her core, Shannon Crossman utilizes vivid narration to instill an unwavering sense of hope into those who decide to dive soul-first into this mystical journey in book form. Infinite Sea of Stars welcomes the reader to a symphony of transcendence, and all it asks of them is to partake in the celestial dance and “lose [themself] in a field of flowers”.

Walking Towards The Noise: Poems for those who feel life's complexities

by John Bowie

Poems for those who feel life's complexities 'Let’s cry, and then smile together. As time’s tides offer up words to shore. These feet touching sands, as our minds dance with crumbling white horses, that crash fury-filled waves with the deep blue inks of our untempered selves.' Praise for Bowie’s poetry ‘Bowie’s poetry is brutal and lyrical, beautifully textured.’ — B F Jones, poet of Five Years ‘Bowie shows extraordinary talent as he changes tone and style.’ — Scott Cumming, po... more

The Ecstatic Dance of Soul

by Jayita Bhattacharjee

This book sheds a light on how the soul breaks open by the intoxicating dance of hearts. In this process of breaking does it reveal the most astonishing light of the sacred space within. As the heart breaks, it breathes in again and such is the way, that it grows in the rolling of time. Such enigmatic is the process of unfolding, that every step evokes so many amazements. Life comes to us with the breathtaking gift of feeling alive throughout this breaking, unlearning and relearning everything i... more

Particle Pinata Poems

by Margaret A Harrell

The Particle Piñata collection spans over forty years of Life tackled from the heart. The genesis emerged when, living in Morocco in 1980, Margaret Ann Harrell began recording her dreams. And they poured in, introducing her to “image trails.” She was in deep contact with the unconscious. In it resided this poet, a “second-class citizen” of herself. The poet to whom words came easily because after all she was in the unconscious, whereas the conscious prose author struggled, edited, cut, sweated, ... more

Sit Down And Have A Beer Again

by Greg Wyss

Greg Wyss was an important voice in the small press scenr of the 1970's. Sit Down And Have A Beer Again is the definitivre collection of his work. This 3-part anthology includes the original 1977 chapbook Sit Down And Have A Beer, as well as the other poems and stories published in those small press magazines but never collected until now. The third chapter contains a small sample of his novel When Life Was Like A Cucumber published in 2019.

The Great Permission

by Andrew P. Dillon

The Great Permission: A reliquary (thegreatpermission.com), is the first poetry collection built exclusively for the web. Licensed under Creative Commons, it features:

70 poems
audio of the author reading each poem
annotations
pictures
family recipes

—some of the many relics of a life.

The Mermaid with Angel Wings

by Betül Kelez

The Mermaid with Angel Wings got inspired by the legend of Melusina who is a mythical creature of European folklore. This poetry collection represents her, but maybe also your inner thoughts and feelings as an outcast. Did you ever feel like you do not belong and have to keep parts of your personality to yourself ? Come and be part of Melusinàs inner world full of secrets.

Time For My Generation To DIE

by E. D. Evans

A collection of Original Punk Poetry from an Original Punkster

UN/Reconciled

by Pasquale Trozzolo

Un/Reconciled is a story of a love gone off told through a collection of 29 poems. It reminds couples that relationships take work even when in a powerful love. It is essential to capture the magnetic tension experienced in the first weeks and months of the relationship and find ways to keep discovering it even as the mundane of ordinary life interferes.

The World No Longer Speaks to Me and I Am Thankful for its Silence

by Samuel Willinger

Musings on life, death, love, and everything that comes before, between, and after.

Bits and Pieces: Thoughts from a Life in Poetry and Prose

by Joyce Henefield Coleman

Everyone’s life is a story. A story of a journey through joy and sadness, winning and losing, good health and illness, love and hate. The challenge is to navigate through life and to remain the person you were meant to be. To embrace life with all its joys and problems and to make it a source for goodness, love, beauty, and happiness for yourself and for others.
Joyce Henefield Coleman has always found comfort in the written word, especially in poetry. She has loved poetry for her entire... more

Unplugged- Haiku & Tanka

by Jacob D. Salzer

Unplugged— is a collection of 43 haiku and 7 tanka by Jacob D. Salzer. Salzer's poetry encourages readers to take a break from technology and be immersed in the Natural world. This collection features poems published in the following journals and websites: Chrysanthemum, First Frost, Frogpond, Haiku Commentary, Hedgerow, Heliosparrow, Is/Let, Kingfisher, Presence, Ribbons, The Haiku Foundation, The Heron’s Nest and The Living Haiku Anthology.

The Elk in the Glade

by Bruce E Whitacre

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm. Once again alone and facing hardship, she transforms an almost forgotten hobby, her young girl dream, into a brilliant thirty-year career as a successful la... more

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