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Report copyright infringementby Christy Prahl (Author), Michele McDannold (Editor)Reminiscent of the City Lights Pocket Poets Series in both size and scope, these 26 prose poems explore, then quietly explode, what we know of familiar terrains. Whether taking time for rest after a visit from houseguests, deciphering the peculiar rituals of church, or recalling a string of old loves come and gone, each speaker occupies a space between quiet and clamor. Her domain is the bedrock beneath love, fr...

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Report copyright infringementby J. C. Dampier (Author)The Awaken: Transformative Poetry and Lyrics for the Soul is a powerful collection of spiritually inspired poetry and reflections designed to uplift, challenge, and bring healing to the heart. Rooted in faith and biblical truth, this book invites readers on a journey of renewal, encouraging them to embrace their divine identity and walk boldly in God's purpose. Each chapter offers poetic insight into life's struggles and triumphs, guiding ...

Thoughts From the Heart: Embracing Change and Finding Love

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Palmisano (Author)This book is more than the introspective journey of one woman navigating the complexity of life. It is a compilation of poems about how we learn to see people for who they are; find joy in sharing time with family and friends; adapt to adversity during a global pandemic while recovering from a devastating hurricane; accept loss and evolve as we age; and find love when it is least expected. For anyone going through a shift from one of...

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Plumly (Author), David Baker (Editor), Michael Collier (Editor)Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), D. M. Black (Translator), D. M. Black (Introduction by)A new translation of the final part of Dante's Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante's Purgatorio. Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante's journey from Hell into the presence of God is for many the most memorable stretch of the poem, a musical and mystical interweaving of mind an...

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Report copyright infringementby Sid Ghosh (Author)An exciting new edition/entry to Milkweed's Multiverse series--a visionary collection of poetry advocating for the excited, the rebellious, and the neuroqueer. In this momentous debut, Sid Ghosh invites the reader "to be so free that it scares you." Leveraging gem-like koans, technicolor wordplay, and earth-shaking wit, he creates startling new worlds in only a handful of words. As a nonspeaking autistic writer with Down syndrome who must navi...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Waldman (Author)"To understand the radiance of the poetry world you have to look at Anne." --Eileen Myles, author of A Working Life From "one of the most important and irreducible living American poets" (Poetry Foundation) comes a powerful and prophetic collection of epic scope and vision Mesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of Mesopotamia to our own dys...

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia Swain (Author)In Steel Slides and Yellow Walls, Alicia Swain navigates the labyrinthine journey women undergo to form their identities. Through a feminist lens and distinctive voice, her collection veraciously portrays the trials that forge women into sagacious, resilient adults. From contemplation of how to balance mental health despite knowing what tribulations are sure to come, to the title poem's exploration of how traumatic memories can continue to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shannon Kearns (Author)The forest is a mother is a witch is a womb.Here, the trees hold impossible magic; their roots are a haunted house, a spiral, a three-knock ritual on the fairy-tale door. When you wander into its arms, it's important to surrender: eat the apple but protect your name. The darkness will only choke you faster if you try to resist.Beneath the spellwork and the silence of these woods, you'll find poetry that acts as a portal. Kearns births a u...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Morton (Author)A kitchen hums with flies. Grackles fill the branches of a tree. A bruise blooms over skin. In Shedding Season, nature threatens to overwhelm those who would keep it in check. Instead, Morton explores what it means to refuse the language of dominance, to recognize oneself as a small part of an impossibly complex ecosystem. From this vantage, insect legs form a chorus and violence is worked like a bow against an instrument, attempting beauty....

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Hirshfield (Author)Now in paperback, the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of "some of the most important poetry in the world today" (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives In an era of algorithm, assertion, silo, and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thir...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Michelle Bednarz (Author)She graduated school. Landed a dream job. Moved to her favorite city. Just when it feels she has accomplished it all, suddenly everything feels upside down. Everything feels unknown. Rachel Michelle Bednarz's debut collection, Seasons of Unknown, stares down the most uncomfortable characteristic of life, that it dares to remain uncertain. The sentimental collection confronts the complex emotions which come from milestones and rit...

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Report copyright infringementby Skillful Pen Press (Author)Through Rays of Light is an anthology that captures that even in the darkest nights, we can find our way through rays of light, hope, and love. No matter how deep the valley is, we're never alone. God always sends a ray of light to guide us. Rachel M. Adams, Sana Baig, A.M. Benjamin, Jaela Deming, G.K. Elliot, Anna Kailin Fletcher, Z.A. Gilbert, Emily Gingrich, Alana Griffin, E. A. Hefler, Esther Dawn Hernandez, Willow Hoffer, Skye Lo...

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Report copyright infringementby Clara Elena García (Author)Seven Legendary Monsters is a feminist retelling of Paraguay's Guaraní people's creation mythos. Across 67 poems, Clara Elena García taps into ancestral knowing, teaching us that our participation in the eternal duel between good and evil is an active choice.In a world where meaning is becoming meaningless, García's work reminds us that life is a creation, a reconciliation of experience lifting us above the old dichotomies. Steeped in...

Grief Age Love: Poems for the Autumn Years

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanie Okimoto (Editor)As we age, the quality of life is often related to how well we can cope with loss. And the losses are many: the death of our loved ones, but also the loss of who we ourselves once were physically, and sometimes in varying degrees, mentally. Adding to this difficult list are the times when a spouse, partner, sibling, or dear friend faces serious illness and health challenges. Those who find themselves in this last chapter of life have a fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Jackson (Author)The Sunset Kid, Jackson's debut release, is an archival collection of poems that represent the internal world of a young person trying to make sense of their unique perspective in a harsh world. Painted by visual language and heartfelt themes of depression, grief, wonder, hope, and identity; The Sunset Kid delivers a sentimental canvas painted with all of the colors. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5...

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Report copyright infringementby Milagros Diaz (Author)Love! Amor! Liebe! Amour! Amore! What can you say about love?More so, what can't you say about love?Love is a journey and a choice, entwined with heartbreak, tenderness, envy, and vulnerability. For decades, deep affection and intimacy seem to be manipulated, denied, accepted, craved, endorsed, and much more. Kaleidoscope was created to narrate the multitude of love in all its facets. It depicts love when it's all sunshine and rainbows, as...

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Report copyright infringementby Courtney Peppernell (Author)This personal, engaging new collection from best-selling poet Courtney Peppernell illuminates a powerful journey of resilience and survival. "When life feels as though it has been burned to the ground, reduced to piles of ash, there is always someone to remind us that life begins again, no matter how hard we fall or how disastrous the crash." This is the story of how you rose from the ashes--where every ending is a new beginning. The...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Ashton (Author)Brutal Hope is a collection of poems that explore the delicate dance between grief and joy. Sarah Ashton invites readers to embark on a profoundly personal journey of living with loss. Each piece captures the raw emotions of wrestling with faith, experiencing the heartbreak of miscarriage, and navigating the emptiness of sibling loss. With lyrical beauty and profound honesty, the author illuminates the intertwining paths of sorrow and heali...

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Report copyright infringementby Caitlin O'Ryan (Author)At what point do we figure it out // does it get easier // will we find the answers // will I feel okay? Caitlin O'Ryan's debut collection is a journey of mirror smashing and everything we have come to accept being called into question. With deep vulnerability and wit, she invites us to look inside of ourselves and to interrogate what we find there. Fuelled by the times that we are living in, her poems vibrate through the pages, grabbing ...

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Phillips (Author)An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips. Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory. If the poet's last few books have concerned themselves with power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the usefulness of embracing it and of releasing oursel...

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Roveto (Author)"It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing," Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of bodys, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart.Beginning with the death of daddy, the "I" soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with-strangers, actors, a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects, dispersing them into the Southern California landscape, the Un...

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Report copyright infringementby Valencia Robin (Author)Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time--ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way forward. Engaging with an array of artistic heroes--James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Eavan Boland, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Nina Simone, Pablo Neruda, and Stevie Wonder am...

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Report copyright infringementby Kaley Sue Covarrubias (Author)The Vault: A Collection on Motherhood, Friendship, and Becoming is a tender, honest exploration of love, identity, and the moments we keep tucked away. With warmth and vulnerability, these poems reflect on motherhood, sisterhood, friendship, and the quiet strength found in showing up-especially when it's hard. From whispered doubts to deep belly laughs, this collection opens the door to what we often lock inside. For anyone navigat...

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Report copyright infringementby Kamilah Ain Welch (Author)mindbalm is a short compilation of poetic encounters drawn from Kamilah's ongoing walk with God. A believer that God speaks in many ways, she has collected these musings over time and is now sharing them with you, in no particular order. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 24, 2025

Prayer Holding Night: New & Selected Works

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Report copyright infringementby Lupe Mendez (Author)Prayer Holding Night: New and Selected Works is Lupe Mendez's latest entry into the poetry expanse and continues TCU Press' series of collections by the Poet Laureate of Texas. The poems in this collection span a 20 year writing career (2005 - 2025) in which Mendez has worked to speak on issues and everyday experiences. The poems here cover his view on travel and art, historical events and disasters and even a response to Texas politics with...

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Report copyright infringementby Parker Lee (Author)Experience a powerful journey of transformation and self-love, told through the evocative words of a trans woman reclaiming her identity and joy. Trans poet Parker Lee (author of the bestselling coffee days whiskey nights) returns with an all new collection of poetry, prose, and aphorisms. This is a journey from hopelessness through to self-discovery, self-love, and romantic love presented in three sections: moonrise, sunrise, and stardust. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip Mulligan (Author)When the weight of the world pulls hard, the need for loft and levity rises. In this accessible collection of poems, Despite Gravity, Phillip Mulligan explores the feelings of being anchored versus tied down and how one might fly and still carry with them what is essential. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Pia Bordon Crosby (Author)The Ripening is a poetic pilgrimage into the wild landscape of becoming-where grief and grace grow side by side, and where love is not a destination but a way through. In this soul-baring collection, Pia Bordon Crosby offers poems that are raw, rooted, and reverent. These are not tidy answers or polished prayers, but moss-covered truths written from the middle of the storm and the soft light that follows. With language that lingers and...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Guilmette (Author)In his debut poetry collection sex and oatmeal, Eric Guilmette explores the complexities of love, identity, and what it means to feel deeply in a world that often asks us not to. This is a book that lives in contrast: the warm, honeyed rush of intimacy and the thick, cold quiet that follows... the ache of absence, the weight of longing, the emotional staleness of something once comforting, now unfinished and forgotten. With a voice that's...

Quietude: Haiku and Other Stretches of the Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth L. Faught (Author)Having been introduced to haiku as a spiritual practice by a Trappist Monk, the author learned to experience life in intimate moments of observation, thought, and reflection. These often Zen moments present a vantage point from which to navigate life at one's own pace and according to one's own priorities. Haiku, beyond being another form of poetry, can become a way of life. "Silence is spoken here." Those words are found on small desk...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Michael Grant (Author)In this raw and unflinching collection of poems, Eric Michael Grant lays bare a lifetime of wounds, survival, and hope. Spanning the turbulent streets of the Bronx during the 1980s and 1990s, to his adult years elsewhere, these poems confront the painful realities of growing up amidst poverty, violence, and a mother's battle with drug addiction. Eric invites readers into moments both deeply personal and universally human: the ache of ...