Poetry Books

This volume assembles poems produced over the last thirty-five years by writer/scholar E. L. Risden. Samples re-surface from earlier books and chapbooks: On Shakespeare, In Sonnets (Cambridge Scholars Press), A Second City Street Prophet Sings the Blues...

This book contains over a thousand original poems in the form of Haiku. They all were inspired and written in the Spanish language.--- Este libro contiene más de mil poemas originales al estilo Haiku. Todos fueron inspirados y escritos en el idioma...

Quaran Team is an artful exploration of the Covid- 19 experience through watercolor visuals and Haiku poems. The book is a delight for all ages and delightfully presents some of our shared experiences over the past few years. It offers a good humored,...

Just over 2 years ago I began my journey with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. Through the struggles there have been times where I thought I would be unable to continue the things I enjoyed: work, soccer, volunteering, socializing. The triggers of...

An anthology of short stories and poems.

"This weave of sacred poems and images evokes the mystery of formless heartspace...a generous, grace-filled offering!" -Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold. "This book is full of the most beautiful gentle reminders...each one...

I am the second to last of 13 siblings, I was born in the city of Trujillo, of good parents, I was raised and educated to be a good daughter and in society, being very young my desire was to be another woman and have fame, but in Trujillo or Peru it was...

In his debut book, JUST C.O.S. compiles poetry and written excerpts to give the reader a full view of how love has evolved him through time and experiences. In this collection, JUST C.O.S. reminisces on how the different realities of romantic love in his...

Need some comfort for your beautiful soul? Here's volume two of "Inspired to Comfort Your Soul." A book of jubilant poems that will fill you with happiness, love, and a kind heart that you can spread to the world. Let this be your rejuvenation as you...

Broken down into 4 chapters 'Trail of Thought' covers what I believe are the 4 pinnacle feelings of a human being. To feel loved, to feel inspired, to feel heartbroken/disappointed and to feel curious. Throughout this book each chapter has its poem...

This book started as a book of poetry about the human condition during the Pandemic. lt grew intoan inclusive view of our lives. Nine chapters encompass masks, grief, isolation, love, bird-song, life anddeath. lt is about our physical identity,...

Most days it's hard to look myself in the eyes needless to say the eyes of others. What is it about life that makes it such a mystery where you stare at the cealing and wonder what we turned into.

ITFOAABMT is about love and what to do with your feelings, growth, development, being black in America and everything in between. A selection of newly written poems and poems from the archives, In The Face Of Adversity tackles what it means to be a man...

This book is designed to help people get in touch with their inner strength, courage and ability to put into words feelings and corrective measures that can be used to motivate change in one's life. It's a helpful tool for self therapy when you find...

Abandoned Words Between Pages is a visual word and image journey combined together to create the poignant yet sometimes bittersweet memories of life. While life is full of love, joy, and happiness, it is also sometimes filled with pain, sadness, and...

This book is a compilation of poems written in my Tarun state. Some poems describe the state of society from which a large society has been suffering. At the same time, the relation of some poems reflects the social fabric.On the emerging occasion of...

..."from the pages of a chapter, of happily ever after!"Soul connection. Love. Pain and, Struggle. Nick knows them all, and Reflections of the Heart: A Love Enflamed, will lead you down his twisting paths of passion, and pain, with the poetry that has...

pyaar ek ehasaas hai jise bayaan karna asaan nahi hai. kaie baar log koshish karte hain ki jo wo mehasus kar rahe hai wo wah khul kar kah de par nahi ho pata hai, bezubaan main likhe kaivitaien kahe na kahie aap ke andar ke us kone main shaan baithe un...

This book is intended to change your mindset and to encourage people to look at life's challenges as lessons instead of perceived punishment. It represents the peeling back of pain and walking in love and forgiveness. My goal is to encourage the tearing...

And of all yogis, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself, and renders transcendental loving service to Me—he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion.  ...

 Our minds have a secret passage into this life unlived. It’s beautiful how we design an entire universe with such little experience where consequences are just moments. Here, memories drawn from our fantasies come true. We are the people whom...

Rapes are a widespread problem that India faces today. Similarly, the oppression of various tribal groups, religious communities and conditioned thinking that perpetuates stereotypical thinking surrounding these are among several things that need to be...

A collection of poetic short fiction inspired by a visit to the rare butterfly shrine of a silent movie actress. This book begins with Violet and travels through time and neighborhoods, ghosts and forests, to end with passenger pigeons. A book of...

A Year of the Haiku features 365 new haiku poems by James Maxfield written as a year-long experiment of composing one haiku poem each day during the year 2013 using only the words provided by Haikubes-a set of sixty-three die pieces with five words on...

"There were nights I spent all alone only to realize how much I was in love with the moon." The Right Escape is a collection of thoughts on love, separation, and self-discovery. It is a compilation of poems, micro-tales, letters, prose, and quotes. You...

Red Birds in a Tree is a collection of poems written, over a span of many years, about a woman as she moves her way through life. It is about love, loss, sorrow, nature, beauty, aging, resilience, joy, family, and relationships. The broad range of topics...

Sometimes people are just a few simple words. Some are as beautiful as a rose,others like a wilting flower.Some lead you out of the tunnelothers leave you there.Some stab you in the backother watch you bleed.Some walk with you till the end of the road,...

In this debut chapbook, feline companions, nature, and imagination help the poems' protagonist and readers navigate different ages of loss by being mindful in the search for refuge. Better Living through Cats takes readers on a transtemporal excursion to...

 How the Dog Helps, written by Revey Hertzler, is a collection of poems which details an uncommon bond formed between the narrator and their dog as they both go through life with anxiety. The poems are told in a gender neutral voice in order to...

Jo Tum Kaho is a collection of 100 selected poems written by Prashant V Shrivastava. Each poem is written in the form of a song, which you can recite with your own composition. With a great depth in each of the lines, the word selection is such that you...

I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she...

Nrusingh Tarai's poems have an unusual freshness & vividness & clarity about them. His language, phrase & rhythm has a rare felicity & flexibility that enables his poetry to acquire an identity of its own. He is prolific, not to say...

In the preface of the book the poet says, "ହଁ ରାତି ଅସ୍ଥିର କରେ ମୋତେ ଅନିଶ୍ଚିତତା ପାଇଁ । ରାତି ଅଣନିଃଶ୍ୱାସୀ କରେ ଆଶଙ୍କା ଗୁଡ଼ିକ ପାଇଁ । ଏତେବେଳେ ଲାଗେ ରାତି କହିଲେ କେବଳ ଅନ୍ଧାର ଓ ଅନ୍ଧାରକୁ ଅନ୍ଧାର ଛଡ଼ା ଅନ୍ୟ କେଉଁ ନାଆଁ ଦେଇ ହେବନି । କବି ରାଜେନ୍ଦ୍ର କିଶୋର ପଣ୍ଡା କିନ୍ତୁ କହନ୍ତି--...

Awareness of Jupiter covers a lot of ground. Innovative poetry with folklore themes is mixed with strong personal reflections on the nature of time, love and being.The poems will provide you an enchanting view of a world where folklore dwells and an...

Peter Caccavari's first book of poetry is a testament to resisting despair, how to live with, how to come to love, loss of life, the losses of the body. In these poems there is comfort in the everyday and, more important, in the natural world where there...

Framed by the claustrophobic experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, these poems share a concern with the fragility of the earth and our bodies on the earth, as well as the webs we weave through virtual means of connection. Michael draws on Biblical and...

Poet Laureate of the BBQ Joint is a stunning debut collection by Lauren Boisvert. This collection is intricately tied to place-beach, water, and sun. The poet gives the reader a glimpse of life in Florida and urges visitors to "Leave the beach with...

These poems are luminous and generous, making room for newts, crickets, stars, and a boundlessly tender view of the human condition. Each poem is laced with affection for humanity, and has a curious, intimate take on the natural world. They acknowledge...

How to chronicle a lifetime? If it can be done at all, it must be in poems like this, written straight from the heart and spanning a decade, plainspoken, and lyrical with authentic and earned emotion. Here, the author's life is written in life-affirming...

"All These Little Remonstrations" takes the reader on a meditative journey through nature, family, love and loss. From sea shores and the treasures that lay within them to the loss of loved ones and the integrity of the earth's ecosystems, the reader is...

Humming the Thing is infused with the celebratory as Theresa Hamman takes us to the land of myth and magic. With elements of steampunk style and ethos, and through such innocuous images as worms, curlers, birds, and apples, we find ourselves in an...

Do, please, check out the final stanza of "Flutter" for a nutshell demonstration of sound gorgeously orchestrated in language, or look at the sly echo of "things" and "rings" (with its diminuendo in "tightening" a few lines later) in this collection's...

Widow Maker is a powerful collection of poems that draws the reader through the heart-rending trauma and horror, tinged with hope and mercy, that the author and her husband face as he endures a medical crisis that few survive, including "the fear that my...

Mo Corleone's brilliant debut collection Around the Lake begins boldly. The scorching poems that follow-ghazals, pantoums, abecedarians, nonets, and others-capture the energies and sounds swirling in Oakland's 2020 streets. Activists, musicians, workers,...

Learning to Sleep in the Middle of the Bed got its title before the collection of poems came together. Through poetry, Alexis Cameron Stark wrote her way through difficult and uncomfortable emotions and experiences from her first-year post-grad. Growing...

In Recipe for the Poet, Osayande coaxes us through memory, through the familiar, through the stuff that holds us together. A relationship, a life, as seen through the vista of a fiddle, the winding curve that is the process of love as seen through simple...

"I look for hidden meanings in incidental moments, poet Bill Ratner says in "Try My Luck," one of many intriguing poems in To Decorate A Casket. These highly original poems stir things up-a wild concoction of exploration, confession, and surreal fantasy,...