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Poetry

  • Wolf and Amaryllis

    by Sebastian Guyette
    Sebastian Guyette immerses himself into the artwork of words to create meaning in this beautiful collection of poems. The themes of the text include heartbreak, love and the duality it brings, and the mind under intense emotion. The poems are told from multiple perspectives and touch on both everyday and extreme circumstances in life. One particular poem that stands out explores the mental state of a Russian girl whose mother sold her into sex trafficking in order to feed her heroin addiction. J... more
  • The Best Material for the Artist in the World

    by Kenneth Chamlee
    This poetic biography tracks the life and career of landscape artist Albert Bierstadt, whose 19th-century representations of the American west earned him wealth and international acclaim. Relaying the story primarily through Bierstadt’s voice, this imaginative collection also includes perspectives from the painter’s family, friends, critics and patrons as it chronicles his youth in New Bedford, Massachusetts, his apprenticeship in Europe, his meteoric fame following western expeditions, and thro... more
  • Alone | All In One

    by LaShawnda Jones

    "What if I AM The One? What if I am the person I've been waiting for, hoping for, dreaming of - anticipating with all my heart, mind, and soul?” 

    When alone is uncontracted, it becomes all one. Those who embrace solitude discover everything they need is within them. They are enough for their life.  

    Alone | All In One: A Solitary Journey is a record, teacher, and mirror. It documents mid-life pivots and understandings. It explores the beginning of... more

  • Nice Nose

    by BUCK DOWNS
    Passive-aggressive, pro-mask propaganda, dusty riddles, a record of meals made or missed -- sometimes appearing as a sticker on a lamp-post or on the back of a bus seat, or posted on a feed amid a clatter of feeds. "First-rate poems with punching power." -- Robert Amorello, Counselor at Law
  • Machine Journey

    by Richard Doyle
    Machine Journey is a pamphlet of poems and flash fictions. Travel the road from Slough to Mars. Discover wild visions, strange tales and machine futures. Scramble your way to the prefect stroke.
  • Everything Is Fine

    by Alesa Bernat

    This raw look at mental health, family, love, and spirituality will leave you breathless. Alesa Bernat’s debut poetry and prose collection, Everything Is Fine, speaks honestly of the hidden wars within us and the unintended casualties we cause carving a path out of our darkness.

  • Ms.

    by Shantasha Naomi Laing
    Not a Monolith- this collection of poems and musings, as its titles suggest, explores the age-old statement "black people are not a monolith"! While this collection is deeply personal, a culturally authentic voice still emerges addressing topics ranging from love, heartbreak, loss, friendship, sisterhood, womanhood, childhood, relationships, community, mental health, capitalism, and the patriarchy. Let these pages take you through a full range of emotions but ultimately leave you seen and bel... more
  • Marriage 2001: A Bruised Odyssey

    by J W Young
    Marriage 2001: A Bruised Odyssey by J. W. Young is a book of poetry & writings which deals with the confines of marriage when defined and marred by subjugation, domestic abuse and censorship in modern times. It is the first published literary work by J. W. Young. Though many of the writings were destroyed, this book contains survivors. The poetic expressions served as a means to cope and endure. Marriage 2001: A Bruised Odyssey is a journey of hope, pain, grief and the difficult pathway to recla... more
  • Poetic People Power

    by Tara Bracco
    For 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday lives and the world around us. This debut anthology invites readers to explore three of their shows about environmental heroes, women’s voices, and human rights abuses. The book features work by 12 poets: Bogar Alonso, Suzen Baraka, Tara Bracco, Shanelle Gabriel, Philippe Javier Garcesto, Karla Jac... more
  • My Odes to Jeri: Our Rhymes and Our Reasons

    by Michael Boyajian

    The author’s love poetry for and about his late wife Jeri before and after her untimely passing ."I want to close my eyes and when I open them be with you again traveling together through time and space," - the Author.

  • The Dystopia Factory

    by Richard Doyle

    The Dystopia Factory is Richard Doyle's first collection of poetry and flash fiction, following his first two pamphlets The Death of the Sentence and Machine Journey. Travel the road from Slough to Mars.  Discover wild visions, strange tales and machine futures. Science in the novel; science fiction in the real world. Scramble your way to the perfect stroke.

    Marvel at the multifarious moons of Saturn, experience the death and life of Robert Hooke, discover a stone com... more

  • calling on all the wild things

    by Karli Crispin
    This collection of poetry is about the author finding her wild in a world that wishes for her to be tame. This collection highlights the female experience under a patriarchal society, and how we can create a more inclusive world that provides liberation regardless of gender.
  • Words Left Unspoken

    by J.A. McGovern
    The reader is invited to embark on a poetic odyssey through life's complexities in Words Left Unspoken-an exploration of silence, wisdom, and universal resonance. Would you like to take a walk through the inner city, lie down in a sunny meadow, savour time with nature and family? All these moments, and more, are captured within J.A. McGovern's first poetry collection. McGovern's poems urge us to take to the road for wild adventures, to question ideas of life and death, and to learn through... more
  • We Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep

    by Thomas Kneeland
    We Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and restore color to the white-washed notions about the dark and terrifying facets of American history.
  • Red, White & Verse

    by Greg McNeilly
    RED, WHITE & VERSE: Our Myths, Legends & Stories written by Greg McNeilly. America - The Beautiful, Brave and Bold. By depicting our nation’s long legacy of inspiring figures, landmarks, and events, this poetry collection enlivens modern perceptions of the stories all Americans are raised on. Even more notably, it rejuvenates our sense of connection to each other and our history. Written with his three children in mind, Red, White & Verse by breakout author Greg McNeilly forgets “an unflinch... more
  • An Owl's Tales

    by Al Tenhundfeld
    Life is a trail of crossing paths, some barely noticed, others with profound impacts. Did Santa bring that special football or the right Barbie doll? Did you pass that tough high school teacher’s course? Remember your first love? Was the pound puppy with sad but hopeful eyes ever chosen? Was the homeless beggar on the corner worth helping? The paths of Santa and teachers and loves and others who need help influence the course of our path, some for good, others not so much. But all of your paths ... more
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