Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Jen Colclough (Author)In her debut poetry collection, Jen Colclough explores themes of love, loss, and belonging. Summoning figures from Classical mythology, Colclough engages with personal loss through timeless narratives of descent and endurance. The result is an ode to survival and the persistence of memory. Colclough blends the mythological with the intimately real, crafting a literary journey for readers that is laced 'with a considerable amount of strateg...

A Line Meant: A Collaborative Poetry Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Dasha Hamilton (Editor)Winner of Best Poetry Anthology at the 2025 Best Book AwardsIn A Line Meant, the first of several planned community poetry projects, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Dasha Kelly Hamilton has solicited cosmopolitan voices from across the state, gathering work from established poets to farmers, retirees, inmates, and more. Starting with single lines of existing poetry, participants have not only crafted their own unique works, but have also share...

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Kalisz (Author)From Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2023-2026: "In Katie Kalisz's Flu Season, a welcome is also a warning. Daily anxieties caution us at every cough and intersection and goodbye kiss. There are dreads we pass down, an inheritance of fear that blooms at each creep of poison ivy, each thunderhead. Kalisz investigates the way time slows during illness, the season opening up and every act becoming a prayer. These poems engage with the...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Turek (Author)A bard of the TikTok age, comedian Joshua Turek is the writer of two poetry books. His debut collection "On the Outside Looking Up" was signed and mailed to fans in all 50 states and in countries dotting the globe.This follow up, "Of Dumb Importance" catalogues Turek's optimism and dread amid a home life fractured by natural disaster and unnatural capitalism. He charts the parallels of a Millennial's midlife crisis alongside global ones. Th...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Block (Author)Poetry. Mary Block's poems tell of surviving Miami's hurricanes, creeping vines, and slithering animals, disappearing shorelines and rising waters. Motherhood itself is among what we survive with her, both its trials and the profound love that sustain us in the creation of family, even in the hardest of times.Says Miami Poet Laureate, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, "Block's debut book of poetry, Love from the Outer Bands is a celebration of motherhoo...

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Report copyright infringementby Lacey Jones (Author)Loss echoes through the corridors of time, whispered from the pages of history, nature, and the heart in Portraits, a vivid and haunting collection of poetry by Lacey Jones. With a voice both intimate and timeless, Lacey weaves reflections on personal grief-of loved ones passed and of cherished moments that slip like shadows-alongside tragedies etched into history: the doomed lives of Henry VIII's wives, the sinking of ships, and the myths o...

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Report copyright infringementby Calista Ashmore (Author)Beneath the weight of generations, where the Texas soil swallows secrets and blooms with memory, My Iridescent Daggers cuts through the web of ancestry, eavesdrops on a telephone game of tales, reminisces on young love, and grinds itself against the hard palate of loss. In this evocative poetry collection, an 8th-generation Texan reckons with the echoes of the past, both the burdens and the brilliance, while forging a path toward self-un...

The Way We Tell It: Poems by Lauren Lisa Ng

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Lisa Ng (Author)Immerse yourself in a poetic journey where hidden histories bloom like chrysanthemums, presenting realities as sweet and refreshing as lemonade. Listen, learn, and reaffirm our shared humanity.The Way We Tell It by Lauren Lisa Ng is a potent collection that turns the traditional poetry landscape on its head. Ng's vivid verse manages to grasp the immateriality of untold histories. Drawing from a trove of generational experiences, she paint...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan J. Wurtzburg (Author), Lisa Lucas (Author)In these tumultuous times, poetry bridges borders, creates connections, and imparts ideas. Writers Lisa Lucas and Susan J. Wurtzburg whispered words and shouted stanzas to each other by text and voice across the geographical expanses of Canada, the USA, and the Pacific Ocean. Their collaboration was adorned later by paired ravens, the cover print created by James Lahey, a noted Canadian artist, living in Toronto.T...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Alter (Author)"Birdcall a doorlatch," this book begins, and we enter into a world of "forest bathing" on trails of the East Bay Area parklands, undertaken while recuperating from a brain injury. This is a refractory world of senses heightened and disrupted: a world of suns blaring, finger-leaves falling, huge beetles glistening, train-horns blendering the sky. But Alter's third collection goes beyond a document of senses askew in the woods. "Whose woods," t...

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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn Widham M. Ed M. a. (Author)Life frequently presents us with complex and overwhelming challenges that test our limits. "Puzzle Me Not" arises from a deep recognition of this shared human experience, acknowledging our struggles and remarkable resilience. This collection of poems explores adversity while guiding us toward healing, empowerment, and renewal. Through carefully crafted verses, we will navigate the emotional landscapes we encounter, confronting ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Espada Dawson (Author)A raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss--a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life. The unsettled border between absence and presence haunts this stunning collection, in which poet laureate Steven Espada Dawson contemplates belonging, identity, family, and grief in poems about his own half-immigrant Mexican American family: his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rikki Santer (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)2023 Ohio Poet of the Year Rikki Santer's new poetry collection, Shepherd's Hour showcases Santer's poetic virtuosity as it explores her cultural inheritance as a Jewish woman raised in the mid 20th century in America's heartland. "How to pasture where I'm from?" Santer asks, gathering idiosyncratic family stories, personal and historic instances of anti-Semitism, weighing the poet's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Klecko (Author)With a subtle nod to E.B. White's classic, "Here Is New York," award-winning poet and master baker Klecko spins his own stories of New York City. From time in Central Park to a chess game in the rain, from a visit to a jazz club to the Algonquin, from a taxi ride to a big pink bus, Klecko brings readers along on a unique journey of observation, connection, isolation and appreciation - sometimes all in the same poem. Number of Pages:...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo-Ann Mort (Author)A life-long commitment to social evolution - and, occasionally, revolution - animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort's debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort's peripatetic poems reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East. Refusing to evade the hard questions called for by a life honestly examined, she asks: "We, who are so right...

Life's Loving - A Book of Poems About How Life Loved Me Into Being

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Perkins (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 12, 2025

Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Stone (Author)Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go- of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poe...

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Report copyright infringementby Luciana Ftoni (Author)A few expressions from the heart placed in Wild Flower poetry book of family, love and nature's ease. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 26, 2025

Intercede: Saints for Concerning Occasions

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Clark (Author)Jennifer Clark's fourth poetry collection, Intercede: Saints for Concerning Occasions, presents saints as surprisingly relatable figures-imperfect, flawed, and very much like us. Some are cranky, dour, and humorless, while others are kind, brilliant, and even funny. Through moving poems, stunning illustrations, and Clark's witty, insightful commentary, the saints in this collection come to life beyond their legendary feats. Rather than f...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosie Stockton (Author)The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California's Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love's painful retraction, Stockton's poems articulate the blurry modes of extraction, fantasy, loss, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Fishman (Author)Lisa Fishman's latest collection, One Big Time, is a stunning articulation of the author's "journey-in-place" in the environs around a one-room cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine. Here is the author at her most exacting and exploratory, in poems that hew with lyric precision to the immediate physical and geologic environment. At the same time, language is an alert, mobile life-form in active investiga...

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Report copyright infringementby T. D. Keane (Author), Michael Poage (Editor) A GATHERING OF KESTRELS by T. D. Keane is a collection of poems inspired by the varieties of life in the Kansas prairie, specifically the Flint Hills. Mr. Keane knows the prairie well as he has been studying it for over 30 years as a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University, Manhattan, which is on the northern edge of the Flint Hills. He has taken numerous students, semester after semester, out ...

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Bancroft (Author)The Truth We Seek is a tender and evocative collection of poetry that traces one woman's creative awakening-from childhood escapes into imagination to the soulful processing of adulthood's deepest losses.Raised in a home where language was cherished, Danielle grew up steeped in the rhythm of words-her father's love of poetry and her mother's work as a literature teacher planted the earliest seeds. But it wasn't until years later, throu...

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Report copyright infringementby Chryss Yost (Editor), Diana Raab (Editor)Women in a Golden State emerged during a dinnertime brainstorming session between the editors, Diana Raab and Chryss Yost. Diana had recently celebrated her 70th birthday. Chryss, a lifelong Californian, was getting close to 60 and well past identifying as one of the Beach Boys' "California Girls." We were both feeling anxious and eager to find a new project.California's namesake, the warrior queen Calafia, emerged from ...

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Report copyright infringementby Imani J. Harrigan (Author)Tempest At Twilight is an ensemble of free-form poetry I wrote in my college dorm in order to breathe, so I could sleep at night. Extracted from my collection, A Maelstrom At Midnight, the aim is to encompass the evolution of relationships. Moving from the comforting embrace of family and friends to the transaction of romantic love, only to be baptised in depression. Resurfacing into self-love, confidence, and historical recognition of...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Lake (Author)Lipstick on the Wall is a poetry collection that delves into themes of identity, self-expression, and intense emotions. Additionally, it explores resilience, the fleeting nature of time, and the imprints we make on the world during our time here on Earth. Through its verses, the collection prompts readers to embark on the introspective journey, encouraging them to ponder the imprints they leave on the world. These imprints, whether tangib...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Winning (Author)Rebecca Winning gives the reader unique poems filled with seeable images, mystery, personal loves and glimpses of nature. These poems are best read with time to ponder, perhaps when drinking a coffee or tea. They are to be savored like eating a really rich piece of chocolate cake. Every poem leaves me with a smile or a tear, wanting answers, wanting more. A joy to read.― Barb Schwegman, author of Nightwalking and Poems of Central America...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Elizabeth Schaf (Author)Echoes of the divine call you home - to the truth of your worth, the boundless love that sustains you, and the eternal light that has never left your side. Like the sunrise kissing the earth awake, like a mirror to your spirit, these words reflect the beauty, strength, and infinite wonder that you are; they are an invitation to embrace your purpose, to live fully, and to remember the sacred truth already written upon your soul. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nizar Qabbani (Author), Rana Bitar (Translator), Robert Bensen (Editor)Love and Resistance is a book of translated poems by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. The book's introduction chronicles Mr. Qabbani's life and explains the background, the social climate, and the circumstances from which each stage of his poetry emerged.The translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess. The book's fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Sunni Brown Wilkinson (Author)Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry CollectionWinner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith, this collection of formalist poetry is part ode, part elegy, and serves as a heartfelt journey in overcoming grief and falling back in love with the world.Sunni Brown Wilkinson's second full-length collection, Rodeo, is personal yet expansive, as Wilkinson carries her readers through sorrow and conf...

Shore Digger: A Collection of Poems by Robert Breen - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Breen (Author)Shore Digger - A Poetic Journey of Irish Heritage, Boston Grit, and Timeless ResilienceRooted in the rich traditions of Irish heritage and forged in the firehouse halls of Boston, Shore Digger is a deeply personal collection of poetry from Robert Breen - retired Boston firefighter, storyteller, and student of literary legend Seamus Heaney. These poems trace the immigrant journey from Ireland to America, capturing the struggles, sacrifices, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chelsea Fraser (Author), Kimberly Phinney (Foreword by), Joshua Blankenship (Cover Design by)The Mother Tree explores themes of being and becoming in Chelsea Fraser's debut poetry collection. With strong natural imagery, Chelsea paints pictures with her words that will allow you to see the ordinary in extraordinary ways, whether that be in a kitchen or a forest. Infused with faith, hope, and not a small amount of grit, The Mother Tree carries readers through a ...