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Life Therein: A Moment at a Time

by Matthew D. Hunt

Through its beautiful and expressive language, raw honesty and poignant vulnerability, "Life Therein: A Moment at a Time" speaks to the universal experiences of the human condition.

Biting Thorns Off Roses

by Megan E. Hoffman

Biting Thorns Off Roses is a transmutation of deep pain.

Through poetry, Hoffman strives to not only remove, but to also intimately examine the masks we all wear to hide from the world—and perhaps most importantly, the ones we wear to hide from ourselves.

Hoffman brings into question the ways in which we, as individuals and as a society, approach trauma. She shakes the very foundation... more

In NEXT TIME YOU COME HOME, Lisa Dordal distills one hundred eighty letters she received from her mother over a twelve-year period (1989-2001) into short, meditative entries that reflect upon motherhood, marriage, grief, the beauty of the natural world, same-sex relationships, and the passage of time. The final entries are something between letters and poems—not fully letters and not fully poems but, instead, their own thing—and portray a mother who, despite her alcoholism, maintains an engaged ... more

The Gray Office: The Cubicle Life in 50 Corporate Haiku

by Ron Perovich

Do you love your job? Then this book probably isn't for you. This is poetry for everyone who works to live but doesn't live to work. These are verses of corporate commiseration, bite-size business dread for the alarm clock averse. So help clear your "case of the Mondays" with this set of cynical snipes and sighs and remind yourself you're not alone (even if everybody else went home early).

The Danger Of Falling In Love: New Poems In English & Spanish

by Jeff King

This book of poetry seeks to convey the sweetness and pain of life, and personal reflections from my own life. It’s the joy, the pain, and the beauty, that we find on our journey, that makes us who we are.

Arrivals & Departures: Journeys in Poems

by Reena Kapoor

Arrivals & Departures is writer and photographer Reena Kapoor's debut poetry collection. Her poems take the reader on journeys through a multitude of places, time periods, and emotions. From the nostalgia of one's homeland, to the suffering and resilience of women who experienced India's 1947 Partition, to parenthood, to life's other simple pleasures, Arrivals & Departures draws readers into new worlds and allows them to find themselves within.

Unbathed Brains

by Hari Hyde

Poems from Minnesota and the Milky Way . . . Let us, the drafted, explain nature’s reign. Drenching’s more wrenching in an unbathed brain. In the boisterous burrows of Unbathed Brains, Dr. Hari Hyde ponders the poetical precincts of his journeys as a Minnesota farm boy, lovestruck adventurer, savvy scientist, and compunctious Christian. Hari also recounts Minnesota miners, New Orleans nightlife, California’s seaside sprites, Arizona’s grand chasm, a Wyoming rodeo, a San Francisco storm, a Bos... more

Mother's Womb: Goddess Rengay

by Michelle Hyatt & Jacob D. Salzer

Mother’s Womb is a collection of twenty-two Goddess rengay by Michelle Hyatt & Jacob D. Salzer. Rengay is a poetic form that alternates between 3-line and 2-line verses written in this format: 3(A)-2(B)-3(A)-3(B)-2(A)-3(B) as a collaboration between the first poet: person (A) and the second poet: person (B). The hallmark of rengay is a common theme (or themes) that unites the verses. The common theme throughout this collection are Goddesses from several different cultures around the world and th... more

Beautiful Blue Sky

by Tim Pompey

Nature. Humanity. Spirit. Each is interconnected and matched together like a well-sewn coat. These poems explore that interconnection and ask essential questions about life. The author probes his own psyche, the world around him, and the powers, seen and unseen, that hold it all together. Like air, lungs, and blood, there are small and universal synapses that create the elements, the animals, the trees, and the souls that behold it all. And above everything, the sky watches, adapts to our existe... more

Twelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit

by Kevin Farnham

"Twelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit" is a prosimetrum, a collection of poems alternating with counterpoint prose that connects the poems and amplifies their content. The subject matter is Nature, Physics, Spirit, Consciousness, and romantic love. The book argues that the idea that spirit does not exist is a self-contradiction, argues that modern Physics proves that the Universe is not a machine, and illustrates spirit in action both in Nature and within our own being.

Caravan to the Cosmos

by Madhushree Das

The Second Book of the Author "Caravan to the Cosmos" is a melange of melodic poems rendering the philosophy of cosmos and its harmony. While taking a stroll through the poems, it would feel as if you are travelling through the ocean crust and experiencing outer space. The atoms of each poem beautifully blended over the panorama of the galactic peripherals. The scales of the rhapsodies are encompassed around the stratosphere, where you have the stronghold upon the gravity of the acr... more

Rebel Blood Cells

by Jamie Woods

Rebel Blood Cells is a poetry chapbook from an exciting new poet, exploring their experience of acute leukaemia and PTSD in a work full of pop culture obsessions, medical side-effects, raw honesty and sparks of humour.

Metallurgy

by Stephanie Ellis

Metallurgy is an homage to the world of heavy metal and its related genres. In these pages are 100 dark found poems created from the lyrics of bands as varied as Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Korn, Behemoth and many more. Although all poems are completely original works, the sources have been fully acknowledged and it is hoped that after reading the poems, the reader will then go on to listen to the artists who inspired them. \m/

Lilith Rising

by Stephanie Ellis

Like evolution itself, nothing about the story in these pages was born of a plan. It’s a collection of “What ifs.” The authors didn’t discuss the story in advance, they simply performed it. The penultimate premise? What if the biblical progenitors of humanity were bent on its eventual destruction? The answer is here between these covers, in the form of a heavy-metal armageddon meltdown fueled by rage, passion, firepower, and hellfire. This is epic poetry like you’ve never read before—ir... more

In the Field of Unintended Consequences

by Peter Schneider

This collection evokes the natural and human ecologies and landscapes of rural Vermont and urban Brooklyn, NY. The long-lined poems, influenced by rap, jazz, Whitman and Williams, deal with ecological and philosophical themes ranging from the author's ancestral roots to his struggle with invasive species.

Bone Lyre

by Ted Washington

A collection of poetry and other works by Ted Washington.

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