Poetry Books

In Building Alexandria, a premier full-length poetry collection from Clarissa Adkins, texture meets metaphor in an array of voices, from retrospective to vulnerable philosopher. Clarissa warps American ideals and idiosyncrasies, reshaping them through...

"Who knows if the grief / I squeeze through my lips can be borne?" says an ancient Aztec singer. In this collection, prize-winning poet Alicia Hokanson sets out to map the raw boundaries of grief by ruthlessly examining occasions and consequences of...

This anthology conveys the enormity of Fukushima, the first nuclear disaster of the 21st Century, on both the environmental and human scale. Contributions by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott, Fairewinds Energy Education founder Maggie...

The Poet has been described as being "like PEANUTS, but if Linus was an old man and Woodstock had an attitude."Busy Doing Nothing is the fifth collection of The Poet comic strips, and follows its uniquely thoughtful cast of characters: the Poet, the...

Love confounds in all of its facets, inhabiting and guiding us in strange and foreign ways. Whisper It Closely is the second volume in an ongoing collection of love poems by the poet Yon Starling. Every poem seeks to explore the moments of clarity and...

Brendan Joyce's full-length poetry collection Love & Solidarity examines the powder keg of the pre-pandemic American political economy, the sudden destabilization of mass unemployment in the pandemic and the brief but beautiful solutions put forth by...

"Father, May I" is a poetry novel consisting of four chapters, titled by the inspiration behind the poems to follow. It dives deep into letters, random thoughts that have been inspired by personal experience and emotion.

The macabre, the unsettling, the uncertain, the unforgettable: stories and legends supplant the sensible and the predictable of everyday life. Whatever else we may think of these instances, they tingle our fears and our imaginations long after we look...

The first step to heal a broken heart is accepting that it's broken. The next and only step is self-love. Self-love means acknowledging your flaws and pain you experience but having the courage to change those flaws you will not accept and those things...

Winner of the 32nd Annual Reading the West Book Awards.When Zach Hively moved back to New Mexico, he found his new home not in the city but in the high desert, where things make a different sort of sense. Over two years, he wrote these five suites of...

You hear the droplets splatter on the ground, first once, then again, then a million times over, making music like only nature can. Rain hits your windshield on your way to work. Your jacket clings to your skin. Socks soaked through. Books soggy around...

In the complex world dynamics of today, it feels more important than ever to remind ourselves that cultural heritage outlasts and outweighs political climates and that art is one of the vehicles through which we can transcend our differences to find our...

"It was a tough life if you was useless." -Leafa Numbers BlakeMy grandmother proudly claimed she had delivered more foals and calves than any woman in early 1900s North Dakota. Like her, we've found a purpose building our lives, sometimes elbow deep in...

This book-length poem is a magical realist journey, catalyzed by war and grief. The speaker walks, impelled toward the restorative idea of the stark earthly beauty and purity represented by Antarctica, and toward the love that he knows will be awaiting...

MaybeIt was the food always on the table,Or the green sprigs of spring ...Keith Dittrich knows that we all seek. We all find and experience. We all hope for the best and fear the worst. We grow and grow up. We love and dream. We watch the failures in our...

No More Midnight Tears is a book of poetry written by a young woman determined to make it through life. Pain and struggle are a normal part of the journey to adulthood, but for this young woman, the journey was tougher than most. Each poem will take you...

If you've wondered how it must feel to be a stranger in a strange land, Kalpana Asok tells you in these gentle poems.  Gentle, but with a hint of irony, as when,  in the voice of a new arrival, an Indian woman introduces herself to a new...

Dystopia is imagined through todays films as being savage, barren and vivid apocalyptic world, so seemingly distant from the world we live in; but this book portrays subtle realities of our world through a boy's eyes where something else lurks only a...

These poems are the imaginings inside my head. Their ordering reflects my priorities.My family comes first. The time and place poems focus on everyday life, feelings and reactions to events.The narrative poems have helped me to grasp some of the issues...

"For the third book of the series, I decided to change things up and make the ultimate foul mouthed poem collection. Buy a copy for everyone you know! Seriously, I need the money." "Four stars! said the guy at the mall."

Some people write about the beauty of life...I do not. I look within the darkness, retrieving those things that inspire me. "Dark Dreams And Ancient Lullabies" is a collection of my poetry that reflects my fascination with the macabre. An avid horror...

PAINTING DREAMSFlowing from the fountainheadVisions for my heartI close my eyes that I may seeAnd feel their sw ay inside of meStreams of clearest crystalCascading into thoughtReflecting the glint of memories stirredTransforming into the written...

"More deep, poetic fun and heartfelt crap." "AMAZINGLY ENTERTAINING" BUY IT, THEN READ IT!

Creating your own poem is a wonderful experience. For those persons who love to write poems and read poems, an outlet for creative expression is the Poetry Slam experience. Meanwhile, experience this volume of poetry. This book of poems, hopefully,...

The seventeenth day of January 2016, during morning devotion, the Lord spoke to me the following: "Do what you are going to do for Jesus! Do it quickly, for he is going to make his appearance soon for those who love him so that they can make it!" This is...

Take an intimate experience into the beauty and spirit of Aloha in a story of poetry and photos from the island of Kauai. This is a collection of island-inspired lyrical verses of creativity and images of nature. A pure joy and inspiration to share with...

Comestibles is Burnham's first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a...

Confronting the crisis facing Christianity, this anthology of post-modern, progressive Christian poems, with a rebellious tone, demythologizes Christian theology. Poems, Piety and Psyche is a brave departure from literal Christian dogma and challenges...

This book, based on the word of God, uses poetry as an entertaining medium for ministering. It contains thirty-three poems with accompanying biblical references and relevant commentary in the notes section. The compilation of these poems came about...

A Beautiful Catastrophe will give you honest expressions of one man's tireless journey from catastrophic life changes and pain to the welcome healing and love of a spiritual transformation.

Hagar raises her son across an unwelcoming border. Bathsheba tries to erase her trauma. Another breakup haunts the woman at the well.The poems in Birthmarks contemporize women of the Old and New Testaments and consider who they might be today. Drawing on...

What happens when you discover you are an Earth being and not just a human being? This volume traces my journey from being a child of Mother Church to being a child of Mother Earth, from being a human being cursed with original sin to being an Earth...

The haiku poems of this book tell the narrative of the Last Supper, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and Great Commission of the Gospels, evoking the essence of these momentous events. The distilled style of emotions embedded in the poems may...

Within the bewildering paradox of suffering and beauty, we often miss the Invisible One. Never quite what you'd imagine, the nudge of his Presence can be mind-bending. More often, the Almighty gives no more than a slender warble. This collection is about...

Obras poéticas inspiradas en la pandemia Covid 19 de 2020

White Walls and Long Hauls is a collection of poetry that depicts the journey of life in three parts: "Origin", "Pestilence", and "Cleansing". These poems draw upon many of life's universal experiences for inspiration and succeed at conveying these...

What happens when a children's book and the toddler in-chief collide? Welcome to The World That Don Built! In his groundbreaking parody, Harry Materne explores the issues that have led to our current political climate with clarity and humor. Ever...

This book of 156 haiku is not one of those books, not verbal snapshots of Japanese seasons and Mt. Fuji, nor of daffodils, butterflies, maple leaves, or snowflakes. The 156 haiku in this book are extruded from personal experiences, encounters with...

A collection of ekphrastic poetry inspired by Western classical artworks (pre-1900). A journey of work that interweave thoughts on femininity, gender, sexuality, gender performance and sex. A collection that dares to question 'the male gaze' and what it...

Alla fine degli anni '30 e all'inizio degli anni '40 mia madre, Luigia Garganico, scrivendo una specie di diario lirico, ha dipinto nelle sue poesie una nutrita serie di quadretti molto vivaci e briosi ad illustrazione delle personali sensazioni su ciò...

Bisogna sempre imparare dalla vita, ma a volte si devecambiare radicalmente la rotta per seguire il camminopersonale per cui siamo stati chiamati, per l'Amore, peril linguaggio del cuore e il coraggio di captare ciò che gliocchi a volte non vedono, per...

The Tears of God is a heartfelt elegy and a deep exploration of faith-faith in one's self, in others, and in God. It ponders the death of a loved one and the grief that follows, a mixture of anger and love that strives for reconciliation with one's own...

This anthology is full of poems and 2 prose centering around societal woes and emotional subjects.

Hank Holiday, by turns a Latter-day Saint (and an Ain't), was bedeviled by two failed marriages, and then semi-saved by June, his third wife, who then died of breast cancer, leaving him to his own oddly believing Mormon devices, which are...

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure...

English/Inglès: Spanish poetry inspired by late nights. Spanish/Español: Poesía español inspired a en Las últimas noches.

Nel percorso della vita servono le soste e la mia sosta ha un nome: Sosta Atrabile. Atrabile perchè è uno stato di malinconia, che induce a fermarsi e adagiarsi ad essa, per poi concepire versi nascosti nella periferia dell'anima.

 Jeevan ki Goonj ( The Echo Of Life) is a collection of poetry written with wisdom gained through the author's experiences in every aspect of life. Our experiences cause ripples in both our surroundings as well as who we are as people. See a new...