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Enter into In the Near Distance in the desert where the sounds of a ranch fill the quiet of the day and the night culminates in "a jubilation of stars." Find yourself in geographical locales as well as invisible worlds. Make way for truck drivers, states of being, alcoholism, as well as joy. Stay for a while in Appalachia where voices of family and friends from the long-ago, speak in rich, timbered voices. Stay in grief as long as you need to, mourning those who have passed on, those taken by the pandemic. As sorrow finds its level, transcend with the love of dogs, in praise of children who don't listen, and tree-climbing at 67. At the final stop, humble acceptance leaves space to continue discovering and unraveling the unknown.

"Try picking drops of the ocean with tweezers. Try expressing your grief, rage, fear, love within the tiny, out-of-breath, syllable-stingy form of haiku. Natalie Parker-Lawrence's poems, concocted from the rushing, halting words of women caregivers of veterans, honor the essence. An image, a sound, a memory, a nightmare: capture it: in so few words."-Margaret Edson, author of Wit and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama."Natalie Parker-Lawrence's book of hybrid haiku, householes, strikes a delightful balance between delicacy and power. The poet also walks the tightrope between the personal and the universal, and she does so in such a way that the reader follows anxiously along, breathless and captivated. At turns gentle, at times brutal, but always poignant, Parker-Lawrence has the gift of the simple line that says much. I hope this book portends the start of a long career of verse."-Corey Mesler, author of Cock-a-Hoop, and Take the Longing from my Tongue."In short, impactful verse, Natalie Parker-Lawrence, shares the poignant and often gritty stories of Veteran Caregivers from around the country. The traditional haiku form evokes feelings about the natural world using a structure of stanzas and syllables. As if by necessity, Parker-Lawrence departs from the traditional haiku to share first-hand, vivid and heart-breaking accounts of those who've survived war and those entangled in its aftermath. Their explosive, shattering and gut-wrenching experiences refuse to be confined by poetic tradition and structure. No one touched by war remains whole. This collection has transformative power, taking us from despair to hope, if only in the knowledge that we are not alone."-Virginia Bryan is a retired attorney, arts advocate and free-lance writer. Her work appears in Distinctly Montana, Montana Magazine, Native Peoples and Yellowstone Valley Woman.."householes stitches the weightless Haiku to the gravity of all that proceeds war with thread borrowed from the women yoked in the collateral damage of the military-industrial complex."-C. (Christine) W. Lockhart, PhD: LT, USCG (retired), Disabled Veteran & Caregiver, author of Blanket of Stars: Thru-Hiking the Camino de Santiago and Walking with Buddha: Pilgrimage on the Shikoku 88-Temple Trail

Tricia Knoll's The Unknown Daughter dedicates itself to the incredible work of Making Known: of naming and describing the complex experience of being a daughter, of asking who we might be as a culture and a country if we took it upon ourselves to honestly do so. Knoll's book is a beautiful, taut series of linked poems filled with myriad voices, each a pebble dropped into the silencing waters of family and history, each helping to recover not just one daughter, but all. These wise and deft poems are conversation, chorus, and community all in one: they speak right to us; they invite us in. They give crucial instruction in Making Known: "sing when the first impulse may be to whisper."-Annie Lighthart, Author of Pax.Tricia Knoll's The Unknown Daughter is an un-portrait, individual and collective, historical and visionary, composed by multiple voices constellated via the titular character. This poem sequence strikingly shapes absence from so many presences. It's a timely reminder that the more things change-socially, culturally, politically-the more they stay the same, and "the unknown" must claim her own narrative.-Marj Hahne, Writer, Teacher, MFA in Creative Writing.The Unknown Daughter is a worthy monument to a monument that ought to exist. This connected series of poems offers acknowledgement and tribute to those women who didn't fit the pattern and made major contributions in science and art. In these vivid poems about the symbolic unknown woman, her family, the watchwomen at the memorial, and even an Uber driver (who says dismissively, "You won't stay long./Tell me if you want me/to drive you somewhere else."), Tricia Knoll makes her own important contribution.-Penelope Scambly Schott, Author of On Dufur Hill

Marjorie Hanft's gorgeous poems in Scrutinizing the Dust create a sensuous world of sound and taste, as well as sight and touch. Both the American Midwest and Ancient Greece come alive in the "complex sweetness" she uncovers as she surveys a forest, a rainbow, the biography of a famous painter, and "the first color in language." Sometimes touching on the comic (such as impersonating the Statue of Liberty) and, at times, the tragic ("My father takes...a new dip...into the river/of forgetfulness," these poems, filled with quirky information, shed light and music on the animals, fruits and thoughts that pepper our world.-Austin Alexis, author of Privacy Issues and For Lincoln & Other Poems. Marjorie's poems epitomize beauty and brilliance in their impeccable attention to details that place us in the moment. We see her daughter's "scars / that turn from crimson to the color of her own skin." We hear the "small sounds cluck / in her throat." And always we learn. In the poem describing persimmons she perfectly yokes the intellect with the sensuous, "in Greece / what are called date-plums are bigger softer / with smoother skin..." Hers is poetry at its most remarkable, as her imagery enables us to reach perceptions we have never imagined, "Locate the meaning / of yellow & you will find that it blinks & flickers/ with intuitive intellect in the REM world of dreams." Together her poems weave a journey through memory, history, art and the vision of words, showing us the delicacy and elegance of language. In her poem "Note to Emily," Marjorie grudgingly accepts "a sightedness" she "didn't choose." Her acquiescence to that muse, despite herself, has gifted us with luminous and transcendent poetry.-Olga Abella, author of two books of poetry, Watching the Wind and What it Takes; former editor of Bluestem and Karamu

You may know someone in this book. In fact, you might be in this book. The men-and women-who fill this book are crushes and soulmates and midlife besties and the occasional fellow you'd risk a morning walk of shame for. It's all numbers, not names, and just enough detail to make you wonder. A boy old enough for a Stoli and a man who cooks by ear, they're both here. A catalogue of crushes, a natural history of noticing, these are portrait poems, some poignant, some punchy, some impossible, all beads strung on a line of prose reflections that make you smile to think about your own secret history.-Ed Madden, professor of English at the University of South Carolina and served as Poet Laureate for the City of Columbia from 2015 to 2022.Kristine Hartvigsen's poems, part micro-memoir, part lyric, part palm "on the curve where hip meets buttock," ultimately choose us. We never forget soul mates and how the "empty chalice echo truths" in a world of sensation, disappointment, and joy." These poems arouse expectancy, explore attraction's belonging, and peer across the room with courage and heart. You'll find yourself on the list.-Tim Conroy, author of Theologies of Terrain (2017, Muddy Ford Press Laureate Series) and founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.Kristine Hartvigsen's new book is a delight. Her poems (and stories) take the reader on a poetic ride through her life of love and adventure. It covers the gambit of her creative life, her love of poetry and music, and introduces the reader to friends past and present. The Soul Mate Poems are not to be missed.-Jane Zenger, author of Night Bloomer (2022, Muddy Ford Press Laureate Series).Kristine Hartvigsen's The Soul Mate Poems is a must read for lonely hearts who want to learn how to recognize their soul mate at a dog park or in a checkout line at Big Lots. Kristine says what many won't. There is no 1 in 3 billion soul mates that you need to find to be happy. If you know Kristine, buy this book and see if you made her list.-Al Black, author of I Only Left For Tea (2014, Muddy Ford Press) and Man With Two Shadows (2018, Muddy Ford Press), and was named Columbia's Literary Artist of the Year by Jasper Magazine

KS started writing Kyivsky Waltz in 2014, at the start of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity (a.k.a. the Maidan Revolution), to answer the question she was asked more and more as the invasion grew into the monstrosity it has become: why did she love Ukraine so much? Kyivsky Waltz is a hybrid chapbook that uses poetry and artwork to tell the story of how KS experienced Ukraine from 1994 to 1996: arriving at 22, alone, completely lost and unable to communicate, yet somehow managing to find a home and people to love in a new nation with an old history. All of the author's proceeds will be donated to Razom, a nonprofit organization committed to raising funds for Ukrainian humanitarian aid.

Poems in Ear to the Ground remember Stratton's father and mother and draw from the lifestyle that like an album of fading snapshots backgrounds her upbringing on a Colorado cattle ranch. There, she learned to remember on a cultural level, too. Traces of things forgotten in have led her to study prehistoric language; pictures written on stone, petroglyphs and pictographs, and marks left on the surface of the earth. In the blender of language remembered and forgot, she strives to interpret the code. As Lawrence Raab writes, "the past isn't over until we understand it".

Readers of Wild Rain will discover a poet of uncommon originality, sensitivity and talent. Margaret Rooney's unique connection to the natural world and her keen understanding of human possibility and vulnerability, yields poetry enriched by mind bending metaphors and phrases replete with sound, color and clarity. The insightful messages contained in Wild Rain will challenge your mind and open your heart. Find a comfortable chair, curl up with this book, maybe in a wild windblown rain and treat yourself to the hidden treasure of Ms. Rooney's imagination.

Hard Feelings, Elizabeth R. McCarthy's second poetry collection, is filled with close observations of birds and other wildlife found in the Vermont countryside. Through metaphor and simile, form and imagination, the poet transforms these observations into the language of poetry. In the title poem, the last wild apples of the season are likened to grudges that linger and ferment, becoming "sour little/hearts that/rot in place." In "Scuttled Memories," an extended maritime metaphor evokes the sense of time passing when we leave our grief and regrets "stuck in the wooden hull/of memory." Yet these are ultimately celebratory poems, full of the joy of discovery, like the old milkweed seeds that "burst open/the pod door-escaping/to whorl and dance/in the autumn sun."-Angela Patten, author of The Oriole & the Ovenbird, In Praise of Usefulness and other books.In Elizabeth R. McCarthy's beautiful, new collection, Hard Feelings, we enter a world of sandhill cranes, field crickets, spring peepers, odd cats, and cleansing rain. Present and thankful for ordinary moments, McCarthy shares her deep connection to nature and the whispered wisdom she receives. She speaks to us of her preferred world, "where understanding / is the sunrise." Reverently hanging items of laundry in the summer sun, McCarthy writes about, "pinning them in silent prayer," and we experience the day through her appreciative eyes. These are poems that offer solace, even when processing grief. Above all else, these are poems of hope, "for those who / believe in destiny / delivered in the night / of each new month."-Cristina M. R. Norcross, Founding Editor of Blue Heron Review; author of The Sound of a Collective Pulse and other titles

Pack your hemp fabric Hawaiian shirts, pop tarts, and petticoats, and join the family in Kimberly Sailor's Holy Week in Cave Country for a pandemic Kentucky vacation! Progressive hip meets traditional rural in an intoxicating mash-up complete with Dollar Store meds and Facebook healing crystals when you need a little soothing after a long day's sight-seeing. Sailor's impressionistic, sound-drunk, tour-de-force lowers you down a zip-line into the rich poetic depths, from which you'll emerge enlarged, newly alive, and thankful you've been "fortunate enough to find caves / below your family's foundation." -Christopher Citro, author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the SunKimberly Sailor's Holy Week in Cave Country carves meaning into shark teeth in cave tops, and dares to ask: how did we get here, above and beneath all these fossils? She enlightens us within her rich text, showing us how we can all learn from children, especially our own. She shares with us, "My daughter talks about Heaven so casually / you'd think she visits after school." A moment so tender and light, you're grateful it was put to paper. Holy Week is bark, bite, and salve, all rolled into one. A must read. -Han Raschka, author of Splinters

Therapy Sessions is a collection of poetry spanning two decades. In its pages, the author explores love, depression, fantasy, and religion. Poetry, like music, often allows the expression of emotions that are difficult to put into words. This is the exploration of difficult questions and emotions. By painting with words, snippets of those introspections can be held for a moment. This collection will take you on a journey from fairy-tale images to the hard parts we don't like to talk about.

So You DARE to DREAM is a collection of original poems and spoken word poetry that will ignite, excite and inspire you to reload your dreams. It will cause you to pull your dreams from under the bed, out of that shed in the backyard, and behind the Christmas tree stored in the garage. It's about reuniting with your dreams. It will encourage you to scream, scheme, and allow your dreams to shine with a radiant beam.You will hear your dreams calling you. It will turn your fantasies into the reality of dreams. It will make your goals urgent to the point of not allowing anyone to talk you out of your dreams. You will begin to dream loud, dream big and dream proud. So, go ahead ... I double dog Dare Ya!

all of this bruising is the fourth full length collection from poet Kendall A. Bell.

"José Antonio Martínez Coronel se ha convertido, libro tras libro, en uno de los poetas más originales de las actuales letras cubanas. Dueño de una poética anclada en lo cotidiano y elevada en la sapiencia universal, el humanismo es una esencia que destila cada uno de sus poemas. Habitando en el espacio natural de la poesía: las preguntas que el ser humano les formula a su entorno, a sí mismo y a Dios o a esas claves de la existencia que nunca logramos descifrar, va elaborando un universo personal e íntimo de sonoridades y significados que nos hacen un guiño de complicidad, porque también de eso se trata su poesía, de nosotros mismos". (AMIR VALLE)--***--JOSÉ ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ CORONEL (Güines, Cuba, 1966) Poeta, narrador, ensayista y fotógrafo. Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Francesas. Miembro de la UNEAC. Autor multipremiado, ha escrito más de una veintena de títulos en los géneros de cuento, ensayo, poesía y fotografía, entre los cuales destacan Los hijos de Medea (cuentos, Editorial Unicornio, Mayabeque, Cuba, 2011), Vallas y carteles de Cuba (Fotografía, Ediciones Polymita, Guatemala, 2013, en coautoría con Julio Larramendi Joa), El paisaje que somos (Editorial Montecallado, Mayabeque, 2016), La sombra de Sísifo (poesía, 2020), La catedral del Tiempo (narrativa, 2020) y Estaba la Pájara Pinta (ensayo y fotografía, 2020), estos tres últimos por Editorial Primigenios, de Miami. Ilíada Ediciones publicó en 2022 su poemario Las ciudades de Chirico

Pinky Promises to Ourselves is a debut collection of poetry, prose and writings by Melissa Christine. The collection is dedicated to the unspoken words that plagued her impressionable developing mind. The book is divided into sections;Peaceful promises made under the stars of our youth, Optimistic promises made with fluttering butterflies in our delicate hearts, Hushed promises made through our teeth because of naive rage, Sorrowful promises made while looking up at the clouds with thoughts of loss on our minds. "Idle thoughts wreak havoc on a cracked plexiglass ego, Prey upon the bygone ideals of the numerical order ofvulnerable priorities...." - Pinky Promises to Ourselves

VIA D'USCITARacconti e poesie letteratura contemporanea

"አንፈርስም አንታደስም" የደራሲ አሌክስ አብርሃም ሁለተኛ የግጥም መፅሐፍ ነው። መፅሐፉ ውስጥ የተካተቱት ግጥሞች ከስነፅሁፍ ውበታቸው ባለፈ የትውልዱን ጩኸት የሚያስተጋቡ ፣ አንዴ ካነበቧቸው ከአእምሮ የማይጠፉ ህያው ሐሳቦች ናቸው። የደራሲ አሌክስ አብርሃም ግጥሞች በሬዲዮ ፕሮግራሞች ፣ በስነፅሁፍ መድረኮች፣ በተለያዩ አንባቢያን ከመቅረባቸውም በላይ በመነባነብ ፣ እንዲሁም በአንድ ሰው ተውኔት ስልት ተዘጋጅተው ከፍ ያለ አድናቆት ተችሯቸዋል። ደራሲ አሌክስ አብርሃም አጭር ልብወለዶች መፃፍ ከመጀመሩ በፊት በርካታ ግጥሞቹን በሬዲዮ በማቅረብ ይታወቃል።

À L'OMBRE DE LA CHAIR...Oui mais en quel sens ?- Comme être à l'ombre d'un bel arbre en plein été ?- Comme être à l'ombre sur l'île d'Alcatraz ?Les deux mon capitaine...Car la chair en même temps qu'elle nous fait aimer la Vie, elle nous emprisonne dans un couloir de la mort qui nous conduit à la peine capitale.Les poèmes de ce recueil, écrits dans un style néo-classique, surfent sur cette ambivalence...Tantôt gentiment sensuels tantôt lugubrement réalistes...Initialement, ce projet (Tome 1: poèmes de 2021/ 2022 et tome 2 -celui-ci-: poèmes de 2023) devait être un peu comme une suite du recueil de 2021 'Rose couleur tendresse...' (qui lui même, dans l'esprit, suivait celui de 2020 'Quelques 'poèmes d'Amour'...' lui-même écrit dans le sillage de 'Ode à la Femme...' -2017-), et donc ne renfermer que des poèmes 'tendres'.Finalement Dame Muse en a décidé autrement, ce qui donne une tout autre dimension à cet ouvrage.

Further into Relationship, and further out of religion: I express my accounts of the journey in the form of poetry. I leave space after each poem as well, for you to express your own desires and longings for more than what can be had in the limitations of this world.

Poetry on life, love, & rebuilding when the first two don't go according to plan.

A collection of poems by the god-man himself, the poetry prince. Yeah, a collection of poems. Read them and see what you think.

Raccolta di poesie e pensieri scritti in italiano e napoletano, in versi sciolti, dedicate ai nipoti, agli amori ed alla sua Napoli.

Poetry is Expression, You're limitless in what you create, These poems are my Expression, But they'll speak to you in yours, Your heart will be touched, Your mind will be rattled, Your spirit will be moved. -Cyanndra Thompson To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes, To hear it is to see it with our ears.-Octavio Paz

The debut poetry book of Abraham J. Frost. This collection of poems has been a labor of love over many years. As indicated by the subtitle, some poems date back over a decade, while others are freshly penned. Not hindered by time or space, these poems are thought-provoking, humorous, and contemplative. The works contained here delve into themes of love, doubt, spirituality, and hope. Through evocative and expressive language, Frost invites readers on a deeply personal journey via verse.

The poetry book "Will of Inner Growth" is characterized by inspiring words and optimistic visions of life's purposes, moving the reader to experience various deep-seated emotions. It takes the reader on a journey, to recognize inwardly oneself as the inner being temporarily living on earth in this world. The life is teaching all of us, if we are willing to learn more about it. Our destinies are such as we created them in the past for today, and what we do in the present surely will be reflected in the future. Notable in this poetry book is my sentiment, delicate feeling and meditative depth. This is collection consisting of inspirational uplifting poems. In my creative works I would rather venture into the human hearts, hoping, that you will like my poems filled with love to humanity. My faith is in the things unseen and in the irresistible truth that God kingdom is within ourselves, if we will be worthy enough to reach in us to that pure and highest plane of perfect living. These are poems to be savored and cherished, they are simple but meaningful. Enter "Will of Inner Growth" whenever you want to get spiritual inspiration, my poetry can help you to stay in peace and clearly think about life and who you truly are within yourself.

Divertido, conciso, audaz: Son las desgarradas marcas de un tiempo de poesía semejante a nuestros sueños y a nuestras preguntas. No me es difícil confirmar que estos poemas distinguen y resumen los aciertos de una literatura capaz de sobrepasar las brumas contemporáneas. Una apuesta sensible y provocadora. Carlos Esquivel Guerra

Love and LifeLove and Life is a thoughtfully selected compilation of poems exploring love's significance in our lives. Each poem in this book has been carefully chosen to help readers appreciate how love can make life worth living. These poems offer valuable insights into love's role in our lives. Without Love, the aim of life is often defeated. Of all the gifts one can get in a lifetime, the gift of a loving heart remains the greatest.The best gift you can obtain from nature is the gift of a family who cares, neighbors who are always willing to stand up for you, and friends who genuinely look out for your well-being, these makes life worth living and happy.

Immerse yourself in the poetry of light and life within these pages. Witness the fiery birth of dawn, painted in vibrant oranges and reds that set the sky ablaze. Feel the meditative hush of a new day awakening. As the sun dips low, celebrate the vibrant tapestry of autumn leaves, mirroring the fiery farewell of the setting sun.Sunrise & Sunset takes you on a lyrical journey, exploring the beauty and emotions woven into these daily transitions. Find solace in the quiet reflection of dawn and embrace the celebratory spirit of a day well-lived at dusk.

light needs darkness to shine is a poetry collection, or better said, it's the seasons, motions, and emotions of living. it's a journey of love, passion, depression, and healing.the author lives in iran and hasn't been able to visit any other country despite how much he would love to travel around the world, but poetry made his wish come true!with words, he was able to visit his inner world and, in the darkness, find the light. it made him realize how bright his inner light shines. and now, at this very moment, when you are holding his book in your hands, he hopes to lighten your heart, he hopes you believe that your inner light shines brightly too!