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Pushing a rock up a hill

by Amy Ryan

In this chapbook of poetry and prose, Amy explores life after birth taking us from the rage she experienced in new motherhood through the ugly parts of her struggling (and, at times, hostile) marriage, continuing on to a second pregnancy. While starting a company, she raised her first child and found herself in the midst of an identity crisis that highlights the negative aspects of modern parenting. After bearing the burden of an exhaustive mental lode, she found refuge in writing this book and ... more

Not Your Happy Dance

by Ryan Scariano

The poems in Not Your Happy Dance seek out the sublime in the heartbreak and desolation of everyday life.

How the Wind Calls the Restless

by Emily DeYoung

'How the Wind Calls the Restless' is a collection of poems written by Emily DeYoung, starting in her teenage years and continuing throughout the transition from adolescence into adulthood. The collection takes on a relatable, internal struggle as a young woman grows restless and resistant to conventionality and conformity. She turns down college offers and chooses instead to backpack around the world. The pieces all contain a certain level of honesty, sometimes taking on darker tones and sometim... more

Moonglow on Mercy Street

by John Biscello

These fifty poems, most of them written in 2020, comprise a kaleidoscopic palette of tones, moods and styles, in crafting living mythology from the world at large and within. Metamorphic bop, scat-alchemy, bare bones blues and gospel, love songs and odes, pagan pop, and cinematic remixes, make of Moonglow on Mercy Street a free-range concert aimed at the imagination and the senses. And, as a lyrical pilgrimage fueled by hope and wonder, it stands as a shining testament to Henry Miller's claim th... more

When Wolves Become Birds

by Alise Versella

When Wolves Become Birds is poetry about women becoming powerful and, "making their own heavens from the pearly gates of their teeth / a smile that bites back / like a dog in the junkyard…" When Wolves Become Birds asks, "so what if we scratch a little, if we sting a little, if the blood reminds the spineless we are still here?" This is Olivia Gatwood’s New American Best Friend meets Silver RavenWolf’s To Stir a Magick Cauldron, casting and conjuring female empowerment with the talons of... more

Anything That Happens

by Cheryl Wilder

At the age of twenty, Cheryl Wilder got behind the wheel when she was too drunk to drive. She emerged from the car physically whole. Her passenger, a close friend, woke up from a coma four months later with a life-changing brain injury. Anything That Happens follows her journey from a young adult consumed by shame and self-hatred to a woman she can live with... and even respect. Along the way, Wilder marries, has a son, divorces, and cares for her dying mother. Anything That Happ... more

An Enquiry into the Delight of Existence and the Sublime

by H.K.G Lowery

In his debut collection of poetry, H. K. G. Lowery explores a journey incorporating all the natural anxieties and pains of living, leading to an understanding of real forgiveness and redemption. From the first poem of the collection, An Ode to Father John Misty, he sets the scene touching on societal issues such as racism, homophobia, religion, addiction and consumerism. The darkness of such issues, as well as other emotional issues, are given light gradually when he journeys into the positive a... more

To Hear His Voice: Poem and Devotional Book

by Catherine Posey

Life is full of challenges, troubles, heartaches, and fears—but there is no reason for us to endure bearing these burdens on our own. Not only did Jesus Christ die for our sins—so we may have everlasting life with Him—but He desires that we follow Him, so that we can hear His voice. When life gets hard, we have a Shepherd, our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gives us comfort. When we don't know which direction to turn, He guides us down the right path. When we feel weak and overwhelmed, He strengthens... more

Rage, Recovery, and Calm: A Year in Poetry

by Amanda JS Kaufmann

It's midlife and you're burned out. In the ashes, you're trying to chart a new course in life that is true to your spirit. What does that look like? In this collection of experimental haiku and photographs, artist Amanda JS Kaufmann shares a turning-point year in her life of working through midlife crisis, recovery, and being herself.

Blooming in the Dark

by Jennifer LeBlanc, Kirsten McNeill

In this collection of poetry, co-writers Jennifer LeBlanc and Kirsten McNeill explore what it means to thrive in the absence of light. There is beauty in the darkness. Open your heart and let in the night.

I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie

by Melodie Yvonne

Not a lot of people know that I ran away from home at 16. And I never went back. Some days I don’t know how I’ve made it this far... and then I remember maybe I haven’t made it. It’s been a very long life, and I’ve lived through and done some rough things that I’d never wish on anyone. I’m lucky the people I hurt have been able to forgive me, and that through it all I’m not dead. This is a project that looks back on the time I spent living on the streets from town to town and place to place as w... more

The Fire In A Woman's Belly

by madison meadows

'The Fire in a Woman's Belly 1' is about surviving and healing from narcissistic abuse. The poetry moves through the landscape of anger by addressing it and feeling its power, to a quest of transmuting the wounds into beauty caused by the narcissist; and lastly, transforming it through a level of awareness that gives inner strength and a deeper understanding of oneself. This is for any woman who's healing from the abuse of a narcissist.

Positive Mind Waves

by Olivia Kiskaden

Bring light into your darkest days. Encourage positivity by igniting the powers within. Positive Mind Waves contains 32 pages of poems, each dedicated to uplift and enlighten. This chapbook has one theme to empower the mind and help manifest more positive thoughts.

Scribbles of the mind

by Elie Azar

This book is for all the people who found themselves unable to share their emotional burdens with the people they care about. To the people that weren’t able to give justice to their feelings, and to the fire running through their veins. To the ones that got so insecure, that the words of those around them became the bricks of the walls they built around themselves. I hope my book will make anyone who reads it feel less alone, less isolated and okay that they are unable to set free the chaos goi... more

Voices

by O'Neil Pemberton

Voices speaks to the many facets of our lives . . . from falling in love, growing old, rage against society and injustice, to our legacy that we leave behind when we die. A passionate and moving collection of poetry from a wounded soul who lives everyday to survive and flush out the many reasons each of us is here on this earth.

A Gun and a Rose

by Emanuel Kane

The book explores the troublesome mind of the individual who puts the nation above his interests. The persona goes through emotional, romantic, and psychological problems without community support. Kane continued, “My poetry is meant to fill the emptiness in our society with caring for the voiceless and poor, something that has driven me since being orphaned as a toddler and missing the warmth of my mother

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