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Poetry
Space Between the Crescent Shadows: One Lover's Account...
by Andrey PsychèThis collection of poems is put together to highlight the mind state and growth that Andrey Psychè has and continues to experience. Poems that track back to the beginning of his transformation of becoming an artist, and range all the way up to the present moment. Inside you will find words of love that evoke mental pictures of natural wonders, struggles with the reality of our current paradigms, explorations of the depths of the heart; lined with the longing for a lover that can only be heard in... more
Unopened
by Doug HoekstraUnopened, an intriguing volume of previously published and unpublished poetry, is Doug Hoekstra’s latest and third book. Among its fifty-seven selections, the reader will find poems that rhyme, poems that don’t, prose poems, sedokas, and yes, even an obligatory sonnet. Some are personal; some are societal. Some look inward, some look outward. Throughout the reader is invited to connect and reflect. Unopened is divided into three selections to allow the works to cross-pollinate and... more
The Day My Kisses Tasted Like Disorder
by Emmanuella Hristova"The Day My Kisses Tasted Like Disorder" is a collection of poems that explores a tumultuous year of love, heartbreak, and all kinds of unimaginable loss. Emmanuella's debut poetry book documents the birth and death of a relationship, and the death of her sister. Each poem is an emotional time-stamp that plunges the reader into the depths of the author’s feelings as they burgeon and wane. The book reads like a diary and chronicles the boundaries of the things that we all f... more
family matters
by gc cohenfamily matters is a fictional poetry collection written from a mostly first-person perspective. the poems inside grapple with issues of love, loss, family conflict and ties, dysfunction, self-acceptance, queerness, and parenting.
Epigrams of Infinity
by James Karis"Epigrams of Infinity" explores time, space, color, light, perception, the seasons, relationships, reality, rebirth and, of course ... infinity.
The Man You Didn't Marry
by Clifford Wayne Williams IIIn a debut collection of poetry, Clifford Wayne Williams II opens his heart and life so that others can find understanding through his reflections about the world around him. Williams' lyrical verse explores the years before his career began and represents his thoughts and philosophies as he organized and occasionally solved the puzzles within his mind. As he leads others down his path in life, Williams reflects on such relatable topics as the value of hard work, a twenty-one-hour drive when cru... more
Facing the Beast
by Jackie BluuFacing the Beast is a story of the mind depicting grief, mental illness, and the effects of child sexual abuse.
How does the mind continue to unravel after enduring years of abuse as a child? How does one try to cope with that leftover trauma along with added unresolved grief? Written in a snarky collection of thirty poems, some of which are simple illustrations, readers have a chance to get inside the author's head and witness a damaged woman'... more
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Lisa's Pieces
by lisa johnsonCURRENT EVENTS , BIRTHDAYS , HISTORY , THE WORLD AS I CAN'T SEE IT ( 98% VISUALLY IMPAIRED ),LOSING THE BIGGEST FIGHT I'VE FOUGHT 3 TIMES. 49 YEARS OLD , AND I'M WITHERING. I AM THE ABSOLUTE VISION OF ONE OF THOSE PHENOMENAL WOMEN, I HAVE BEEN READING AND WRITING SINCE THE AGE OF FOUR. I AM BLACK. I AM A WOMAN. I AM GAY. I AM DYING. I HAVE TWO CHILDREN ( GROWNW\THIER OWN FAMILIES ). I HAVE BEEN WITH MY 65 YEAR OLD CAUCASIAN WIFE FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. SHE TAKE OF ME AS WELL AS STILL FOR THE SAME C... more 
Songs in the Gate: Poems from the Borderland of Now and Not Yet
by R. A. NelsonStanding in the gate between what is and what could be . . .
These poems flow out of the "in-between times", looking back to what brought us here and ahead to where the road may lead, and meditating on the rich lessons to be learned in such seasons of active waiting. The collection chronicles a journey through different chapters of wonder, expectancy, longing, disappointment, joy, discouragement, darkness . . . and, through it all, the complicated on... more
Nectarines, Vodka, Sundays, and Death
by Charles D. J. CaseCharles D. J. Case's voice is distinct and clear in his intelligent and insightful new collection Nectarines, Vodka, Sundays, and Death. Case renders the everyday into the extraordinary with his rich images: "Our histories will grow short, we will / soften, lie down in the snow, lose ourselves / in an ellipsis, and arrive home where we / are nothing more than our unfinished works." -Leah Maines
Volumes
by Faisal Iqbal KhanA journey against historical time upon the pillars of carved sayings, with each poem portraying a version of their prose, fantasy and moral, all combine to form Volumes. A book of poetry based on Arabic Proverbs and Sayings partitioned into nine volumes with a following fabricated theme, transitioning like the seasons, the sky with the horizon, Nature, Gardens, Oceans, Religion, Lost Paths, Darkness, Tradition, Breezes, Love, Loss and many other similar but ignored topics of every day lives, cre... more
Volumes
by Faisal Iqbal KhanA journey against historical time upon the pillars of carved sayings, with each poem portraying a version of their prose, fantasy and moral, all combine to form Volumes. A book of poetry based on Arabic Proverbs and Sayings partitioned into nine volumes with a following fabricated theme, transitioning like the seasons, the sky with the horizon, Nature, Gardens, Oceans, Religion, Lost Paths, Darkness, Tradition, Breezes, Love, Loss and many other similar but ignored topics of every day lives, cre... more
Distractions of the Heart
by Allisha MarieDistractions of the Heart is a collection of poems, reflecting on relationships, trauma, self-worth, and intimacy in an explicit form. The structure of each poem was designed to give the readers the insight to an experience that they could relate to or empathize with. The experiences in these writings show how one can be easily distracted by someone else in a way that can heal or break one?s heart along with exploring the mind, body, and spirit sexually and mentally. Some of the poems are create... more
1946
by Diana GillmorOnly a few anecdotes about the author?s grandparents remained after their deaths more than half a century ago. Research of nearly a decade led her to some startling information and the amazing story of the couple?s lives. The author also discovered her grandfather?s remarkable place in history and that neither Reg or Edwina were ordinary people. From an early age, Edwina had a decidedly European upbringing, highlighted by a convent education and life in several foreign cities. She and her sister... more
The King of FU
by Benjamin DavisThe King of FU is a magically realistic poetic memoir about growing up in America in the nineties on the cusp of the age of the internet. It is a voyage that navigates through family tribalism, supervisors, white-gloved Sheriffs, bullies, sex, suicide, dead prisoners, drugs, porn, middle school, and Jesus; all in search of answering one of life’s greatest mysteries: what is the point of adults?
As It Was: Poetical Works
by Louise HaywardA collection of illustrated poems - giving hope to people, to the planet, of another way for the future, another life and visiting 'today' on the way. Influenced by Ernest Hemingway, William Wordsworth, Bernard Shaw and John Keats. Highly descriptive and beautifully illustrated and produced.Dedicated to Chris Cornell.
