Poetry Books

As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself...

Come on a journey through themes of nature, friendship, searching for home, activism, family life and personal reflection in this heartfelt collection of poems by Carys Owen. The simple language of the poems reveals a depth of meaning as you venture...

Thyme clings, high / and away from the grazing and scents / the air.Island reality is interconnected with live-retrieved memories in which a nurse follows a violent patient into the northern Canadian bush, a migrant mother faces her new job as the...

Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of...

Elder Mountain is an interdisciplinary journal of Ozarks studies. This journal publishes folklore, history, poetry, fiction, book reviews, and regional studies from most all academic disciplines.

Dive into the self-reflective words of love, surviving betrayal, and recognizing yourself worth. The poetry book, 33 Thoughts on Paper, transport the reader to a vulnerable place on only lovers and survivors of heartbreak know. Reclaiming your self-love...

Detour Daughter is st marie's debut collection of poetry and prose. With an overarching theme of loss, Detour Daughter is divided into three parts-- family, love and self.

Zachry K. Douglas, brings you back into his world with his 16th book, Made By The Broken. Written over a 3 year span, it is a heavy prose ridden book. Over the last several years, loss and love have found him at his lowest points. Moving back to Texas...

In a garden of a thousand other volumes, my little yellow book with its earnest plea and hopeful flowers on the cover sits waiting for you to pick it up. It's got a heart it wants to give away.These haikus, poems, and prose pieces are aboutthe miracle of...

Poems of a young woman's experiences and growth throughout the years.

A collection of tongue-in-cheek poetry inspired by their emoticon (not emoji!) titles. This book is about life, love, and the friendships that color our lives and give them meaning. This is the poet's second published volume of poetry.

From the moon, as I fell is a collection of poems and paintings birthed from the creative inquiry that arises in a time of isolation, anxiety, and self-reliance during quarantine. Herein are what poet L.I. Henley and painter...

Herb Gardner ComedyCharacters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy...

Poetry and Short Stories Fiction and Non-Fiction Events Based on Reality

This book is a rundown of what a teenage life looks like as a girl who has gone through hardships and heart breaks but still manages to find herself in the chaos she calls home and life. She shares with her readers the journey of self discovery

A book of prose and pictures dedicated to by mother(s) who have engraved themselves on my heart and to whom I can not say "I Love You" near enough. You inspire and teach me still.

A study of ancient Rome as a prominent topic in the works of Middle English poets. Discusses how each these poets conceives of ancient Rome and Romans, both pagan and Christian, and why it matters to their work. Includes the works of Gower, Chaucer,...

ANTOLOGÍA LOS POETAS POR UN MUNDO VERDE 32 POETAS PARTCIPAN EN UNA ANTOLOGÍA EN LA QUE CON SUS LETRAS LEVANTAN LA VOZ POR UN MUNDO VERDE

In contra FLUX... we are carried (carry ourselves) through digressions, diversions, and obscurer corners of the European city... towards seeming epiphanies(?) and banalities, nested (parenthesised) within each other; a palimpsest of graffiti and...

"Remember when the world was a canvas and I was your brush? Together we would create a dream. My desolate soul is lost in the dirty water of your colours".Ahead is Light is a collection of painful, heart searing and sometimes blissfully rapturous poetry...

On March 12th, 2020, much of the normality as we knew it in New York City would abruptly become a thing of the past. On March 19th, acclaimed Playwright, Poet and Novelist Daniel Damiano would begin writing a poem a day. Some poems would...

This collection of poems navigates the journey of finding self-love, transforming pain and suffering into something beautiful, and creating a home within our bodies. It discusses the battle between ourselves, the struggle with mental health, and the...

A book for the least of these, Ungodly shines a light on the experiences of life as a survivor, being LGBTQ+, being disabled, and many other identities that are viewed as "ungodly." This book shows that even good people make mistakes; even good people...

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is a magazine conceived as an agent of community building and transformation. Its innovative and accessible forum brings different perspectives to bear on the complex problems facing us, while inviting greater...

From emerging writer Cheyanne Leonardo comes her debut poetry collection, more than metaphor. Cheyanne wrote this collection over a period of several months after moving back home to Scott County, Tennessee, from Stuttgart, Germany, in the middle of the...

Richard is a bad driver. In fact, he drives like a Dick. Whether he is weaving in and out of lanes, doing 60 in a 30 or using his phone to text while on the move, he's a menace and a danger to others on the road! Written in rhyme and really...

The Kids & I is a collection of poems devoted to the marginalized, the misfits and the agitators who can't help but dig beneath the surface of what we see in plain sight. It's an ongoing love letter with rough and dirty margins as much as it is a case of...

"You must write a self/ out of waiting/ to speak" asserts Alina Ștefănescu's Dor and oh, what a prismatic, many-headed self has been written into existence within these pages. In her stunning second full-length collection, Ștefănescu explores the worlds...

Together, the works in this collection assimilate and contemplate aspects of the classical and the modern, the serious and the humorous, the remote and the near, the natural world and the human world, the temporal and the eternal.The variety inherent in...

From the early woes of childhood and teen years, this collection of stories and poems paints a picture of young dreams and fears. But as adulthood sets in, these dreams and fears change. More than Coffee touches on love and loss, nature and endurance,...

Take a road trip with the author as she navigates her mental health journey through the lens of reaching one small benchmark towards recovery after another, from victories to relapses and everything in between. Her story takes the form of prose swirled...

?????????? is a collection of poems about the endless feeling of being invisible while going through the emotions and sometimes cruelties of life.Illustrated by the author's own photography, this book guides us through grief, loss and love in a dark and...

a book of poetry my professor kazem fathie! He is an amazing person who has lived a fullfilling life in the usa! he was born in iran and is a model to his friends and family. He is wonderful! He is loved!

The debut chapbook by Robbie Masso showcases the best in modern and contemporary poetry. The raw, anapologetic, and genuine words make the reading fill with relatability, joy, and sorrow. A balance of heat and ice mixed with artistic views of realism...

Prison or Passion is a collection of vulnerable and eloquent poems from R.K. Russell, who has started and played in the NFL since 2015, for the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With bare honesty, walloping punchlines, and endearing...

This collection of poetry wends its way around the crises of the early 20’s: identity, relationships, and sexuality. Written by a queer Latinx femme, these poems are a late coming-to-age amidst the backdrop of mental illness. Take this collection...

A Pioneer Alaskan's Lifetime of Rhymes and Lines is a collection of poems and stories by a quintessential Alaskan, Frank W. Sharp. Of mixed Tlingit/Euro-American heritage, Frank?s writings reveal a life rooted in two cultures and full of challenges, hard...

Life will not give you purpose laid out like a feast; you must seek it out (especially on the difficult days). I’m working on being intentional, I’m building better days, I’m pursuing the impossible, and I’m clearing out the...

TJ Sykes is a working artist and educator in Richmond California. His current work focuses on supporting youth in the Richmond Community.This book contains poetry and art based on his personal experiences living in Section 8 housing.

I am peace beyond perceptionDreams beyond your dreamsThe binds are not as mightyAs your world would have them seemSo, do not fear the hoursAs the night too soon embarksMy light shall guide dream’s pathwayYou need not fear the dark

This is a collection of my romantic poetry and my art. Years of commuting by train into San Francisco allowed many free hours to tap into my love of writing and drawing. There is only a fine line between what inspires me to put words to paper and paint...

From the author of 'Fixated Ranting of a Teenage Heart' comes a volume capturing the essence of love's teaching. The lessons learned from joy, pain, discovery and loss lead you further through the journey of life. Each experience bears familiarity for...

Deluxe color edition. In this present collection of poetry & texts, Sotère "Torregian remains" steadfastly, in the words of Andrew Joron, "the envoy of a utopian zone where (quoting Heidegger) the poet is 'the Shepherd of Being.'" "Sotère brokers no...

Within the northwestern hills of Connecticut they met each Sunday night. They came to admit an addiction and be supported by fellow addicts. The first step was to confess their affliction - they were poets, and so they dubbed these meetings Poets...

Eleanor Johnson is a poet, scholar, translator, and teacher. She studies medieval poetics, ethics, and literary theories. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and is an Assistant Professor of English...

Poems written in San Francisco between 1990 & 1996, with one postscript poem from Idaho in 2003. The style has been called "Beat Formalist."

I started writing poetry at the age of 16 for an English assignment. An assignment I was less than thrilled about. As it turns out, writing those first two poems opened up the floodgates, and allowed me to express all the emotions and thoughts that I was...