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Report copyright infringementby Shilo Niziolek (Editor), Jamie A. M. (Editor)Scavengers is a journal of fragmented and hybrid works across all genres. Issue 3 of Scavengers Journal an imprint of Querencia Press incudes 69 contributors - Edited & Curated by Shilo Niziolek Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2026
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Report copyright infringementby High Shelf Press (Compiled by)High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXXIII (August 2021) contains 90+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XXXIII showcases 20 Artists/Authors fromBeaverton, PortlandPortland, OregonEl Sobrante, CaliforniaSan Diego, CaliforniaReno, NevadaMissoula, MontanaLoveland, ColoradoDenver, Color...
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Report copyright infringementby Billie Ruth Furuichi (Author)An exquisitely produced full color book. Artist and workshop leader Billie Ruth Furuichi offers this compilation of her work in silk painting and digital collage, accompanied by original Haiku attuned to the message of each art piece. Color and expression in line and form feeds our right-brain sensibilities of compassion and expansion, while the companion haiku bridge the worlds of imagination and thought. We come away from this boo...
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Report copyright infringementby Villayat Snowmoon Wolf Sunkmanitu (Author)My exhibition 'Living with PTSD' took six years to plan and put together. It couldn't have happened without support from the Arts Council and the National Lottery. This book is an accompaniment to the rolling exhibition that took place between 2013 and 2014, offering further insight and shared experiences. From my own perspective, it's an important piece of work because it shines a light into a much misunderstood condit...
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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Merrill (Author)Dog Alley is a hybrid, full-color book of poems and paintings by the renowned artist Hugh Merrill. The poems are an intimate look at memory, aging, loss, privilege and sexuality all wrapped up in the potent and visceral language of emotion that only Merrill can achieve. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 8 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 10, 2018
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by James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by)Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O'N...
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Report copyright infringementby Phyllis B. Parun (Author)A New Orleans poetic odyssey, New Orleans memoir, enchanting illustrations, "New Orleans Born" transports readers into the mythical realm of New Orleans, home to artists, musicians and writers, where the arts flourish. The author, a native New Orleanian, writes enchanted stories of insight and love about her family, her life experiences, and her beloved city, blurring lines between past and present, painting vivid images of the complexi...
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Report copyright infringementby Martha W. Brandt (Author)The submission of Hands of Healing is a culmination of my own poetry, as well as motivational, inspirational, and healing words from around the world. My poetry was inspired by the untimely death of my dear sister, Karen May Wonson Stearns (DeeDee), in 2013.My hope is that the poems and passages will allow others who are grieving to record their own thoughts and desires for spiritual peace and well-being each day. The template is conven...
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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Arthur (Author)The Wind Softly Murmurs is for anyone who has ever grieved over the passing of a loved one. These poems arose from the poet's efforts to resolve the grief that followed the death of her parents. This book reflects her transformative journey that began while she was immersed in her parent's love. Her progress was suspended at their deaths, but she ultimately recovered through the process of writing.These profound, lyrical poems ask us to co...
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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Spenser (Author)The Works of Edmund Spenser is a collection of poems and prose by the English poet Edmund Spenser. Spenser was a prominent figure in the Elizabethan era and is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. This collection includes his most famous work, The Faerie Queene, as well as other poems such as Amoretti and Epithalamion. The book also includes Spenser's prose work, A View of the Present State of Ireland. The...
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Report copyright infringementby Greg Schaffer (Author)"Summer's Drowning" is a collection of relationship poems, written separately over a period of twenty years. This collection, taken in its entirety in the order presented, tells a story of a relationship between a man and a woman, from introduction and initial friendship, through dating, marriage, separation, loss, and hope for the future. There is always hope. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...
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Report copyright infringementby Michael T. Steffen (Author), Michael McInnis (Designed by)From the saying I saw my life flash before my eyes, the book's title announces thresholds, things and moments of arrest and luminosity, resplendent, but also shocking as a near-death experience might be, and fleeting as any flash may be. The stars in their constellations at night glimpsed up through leaves of a tree, the drama of a scull tipped in a powerful mid-river current, a woven shopping handbag, s...
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Report copyright infringementby Diane Lockward (Editor)The Color Wheel is a collection of 117 poems by 117 poets. The collection includes such poets as Kim Addonizio, Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Alberto Rios, Paulann Petersen, Betsy Sholl, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Sydney Lea, and Dorianne Laux. Each poem makes strategic use of color. Some focus on a single color while others include multiple colors. The poems capitalize on the symbolism of colors and the emotional associations with colors. Many colors...
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Report copyright infringementby Brian Meyer (Author), Brian Meyer (Illustrator)I wrote these poems asking myself-what truth could I learn from trees. There is a feeling when you go into nature, that connection, that sense of belonging, that seems to arise from the songs of the birds, from the insects, from the wind and leaves. This feeling is intrinsic to being human, evolving from our origin in nature. We can no longer hear our own selves, our own desires, or each other. We feel disconnected...
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Report copyright infringementby Wallace Stevens (Author)When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's Collected Poems, along with Stevens's characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater. Now Milton J. Bates, the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self, has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the...
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Report copyright infringementby John Yau (Author)A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and musical structures, Yau's work includes sestinas, sonnets, pantoums, and lists, as well as invented forms. Employing both strict and open-ended frameworks, Yau creates multi-faceted poems that can shift abruptly from humor to outrage and consider topi...
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Report copyright infringementby Hass (Author)"In classical haiku, one of the most constrained poetic forms, monkeys and herons and trees and the moon can stand in for the entire world. The best of these tiny poems can be at once specific and timeless, questioning and assertive, funny and sad." - Sarah Manguso, The WeekAmerican readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seven...
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Report copyright infringementby Chelan Harkin (Author)A powerful retelling and continuation of Kahlil Gilbran's The Prophet, this book of prose poetry examines life's deeper meaning and spirituality with the Divine Feminine as a guide. The Prophetess is a modern take on Kahlil Gibran's classic 1923 book, The Prophet. The beautiful verse explores the power and timeless wisdom of the Divine Feminine. The Prophetess invites readers into the core of life's most meaningful subjects and offers a ta...
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Report copyright infringementby Joy Harjo (Author)National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Her enduring message--that writing can be redemptive--resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "I am."' The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling."--Publishers Weekly "Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along."--Kirkus Reviews...
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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author)The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's--as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul. Number of Pages: 93 Dimensions: 0.27 x 7.94 x 5.23 IN Publication Date: January 17, 1968
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by Thomas Nelson (Author)An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even though this Bible is small, you don't have to compromise size for readability. Plus, thousands of cross references are conveniently located at the end of verses to help you make connections throughout Scripture.Trusted b...
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Report copyright infringementby Shelagh Delaney (Author)A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had "all the freshness of Mr. Osborne's Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity." A Taste of Honey won Miss Delaney two national awards, the sale of film rights productions at Stratford, London, and Paris, and a round of applause from the critics.The play is the story of a working-...
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by Trevor Ketner (Author)[WHITE] is a book born from obsession. This debut collection of poetry from Trevor Ketner follows two paths of obsession, laying them over one another to tease out a critique of whiteness in the arts that reflects on how we think of whiteness in America. Throughout, Ketner curates a landscape that is part [auto] biography and part political synthesis. Ketner's work takes inspiration from seeing a retrospective of Rauschenberg's work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ...
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by E. H. Rick Jarow (Author)A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic (lakshana) of the poem. Along with a scrupulous study of the approximately 111 verses of the p...
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Report copyright infringementby Jill Clark (Author) I was in my early forties when my friend Gem suggested that it might be beneficial for me to see a counsellor, as she knew that I have struggled with feelings of worthlessness and insecurity my entire life, resulting in episodes of deep depression.Subsequently, a counsellor helped me to unlock the feelings and emotions buried inside me, and to express them in a safe environment, starting me on a journey of self-discovery, which continues to ...
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by Amanda Lovelace (Author)the tenth poetry collection from amanda lovelace deviates from the well-worn path of fairy tales & myths, instead bringing readers face to face with the person behind the poems that have made her beloved. from bestselling poetess amanda lovelace comes she followed the moon back to herself, an autobiographical standalone poetry collection that follows a woman who--through heartbreak, bottles of rosé, & the general messiness of life--felt like she completely l...
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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author), Francis Murphy (Editor)From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself," all of Whitman's poetry in one volume In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful "Song of Myself" and "I Sing...
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Report copyright infringementby Roz Doe (Author)Roz Doe holds an MSc in Forced Migration and has been working with young refugees and asylum seekers for over 20 years. In 2004, she co-founded the charity, Young Roots, which worked with young refugees in Lebanon, Egypt and Nepal and currently provides services for young people living in London. Young refugees have been forced to flee the only life they have ever known, escaping unimaginable situations of war and persecution. Many face further ...
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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Nevill Coghill (Translator), Nevill Coghill (Introduction by)One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales th...
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Report copyright infringementby Aracelis Girmay (Author)Winner of the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryShort-listed for the 2026 Griffin Poetry PrizeWritten over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of corporat...
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Report copyright infringementby John Carey (Author)A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly 4,000 years ago to those being written today. Carey looks ...
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Report copyright infringementby Why Yet (Author)Sometimes, when we least expect it to, those unresolved issues we run from have a way of catching up to us vying for attention. To not deal with those disrupting issues is self-neglect. My journey is about uncovering all of those issues and giving them the attention they need to be set free...InvisibilityWhy do I feel invisible?Unknown to the seeing eyeWhat part of me needs healingTo allow me to soar, to fly?How far back do I need to goIn search...