Poetry Books

I chose this title because of a card I received after my twin sister Joan had passed away. We were separated in the third grade by our teacher. We went to different schools afterwards and stopped dressing alike. That's where my bitterness began. It...

The title reflects many nights that I had to slow down and evaluate things. I was affected by the flood of 2016 in Louisiana. When a life experience of dramatic proportion hits you, just like in baseball, you take first base. Once you get there, you have...

This is a book of poetry. It expresses the impact personal childhood memories have had on the author's adult life. The author shares personal narratives to demonstrate how she has been shaped by her family, the African American culture, and most...

This book of my poetry is taken from my life’s experiences, from years of misunderstanding to physical abuse. All because of being born with High functioning AUTISM. My hope is that anyone who has or has someone in their lives with Autism, may be...

Mi nombre es Mayra Alejandra Díaz. Hoy te invito a reflexionar.En este poemario encontrarás múltiples situaciones de vida, narradas entre rimas y palabras simples.Con mis poemas pretendo motivar tu capacidad para pasar a la acción, y cambiar lo que...

El año 2020 ha sido un año de terribles privaciones y sufrimientos a niveles Bíblicos; año en que nos invade un nuevo virus, creando una pandemia mundial; hiriéndonos a todos, por igual, sepultándonos eternamente en las profundas aguas del olvido. Todos...

"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades." --Joseph Bottum, Poetry editor, New York Sun Showcasing thirty-five American poets born in or after 1940, this anthology confirms that one of the most vibrant developments in contemporary...

Featuring 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forché to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential collection that captures the spectrum of the Catholic experience. Editors Ryan Wilson and April Lindner...

Margaret B. Ingraham's collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increasingly regarded as a virtue and distraction is its inevitable consequence, each of these poems offers...

Have you ever taken the time to reflect upon all the situations, events, and mysteries that people face throughout their lives? Could it be possible that the person standing in front of you at the checkout line in the grocery store is having the same...

 Durer Bhire Joler Kinara is a loop of dynamic emotions of human life. The poems here speak of the grievances of a farmer to the helplessness of an abandoned child drifting in search of a piece of grain. The book has verses of a countryman's...

A collection of words placed in a precise and unpredictable arrangement, She Remains says what doesn't want to be heard outside of its original thought, in the rhythm of an unsteady heart.These poems express themselves equally through words and form to...

lovesick--the best kind of insane.antidote to her ruin. is a collection of poems inspired by love, heartbreak, grief, self-discovery, recovery and healing. There is a messiness about the book that intentionally symbolizes the raw phases of grief and...

This book is an answer to the American Sonnet. Through the structure of the sonnet, the pause and the breath explores the boundlessness that is the experience of xir black transness. Though laden with imagery, each sonnet remains a narrative that...

“Incendiary, dizzying, deadpan, GHOST SENTENCE is a love letter, an ultimatum, a wildly poetic survival guide to the death throes of the patriarchy, our age of bogus authority, white noise, and disembodied menace. Flanagan's charged lines...

The poems in John Pleimann's Come Shivering to Collect live and move and have their being in a world that is both twilit and sacred. Speakers wrestle with memory's power to obsess and distort, to haunt, and to evoke. They discover that life mocks...

A little more than two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Virgil wrote his Georgics, a long poetic sequence about agriculture, suffused with profound reflections on the relationship between humanity, nature, and the divine-and reflecting the political...

In the title poem of Into the New World Robert Schultz takes the reader on a walk around the World Trade Center site shortly after its destruction: in response to this event, the book ranges through the extremes of war and peace, as well as backwards and...

Whites Only is a poetry collection mostly inspired by my experience as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the lovely Rainbow Nation of South Africa (2015-2017). It touches on social justice and cultural diversity. Within this book, a couple of crazy...

Citizens heed this warning, The Mad Mooner is on the loose.Quick as a wink, his pants are down, And he shows you his caboose.From the hilarious Public Service Announcement warning about The Mad Mooner, to the undersea concerts of King Crab and The Sand...

The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are...

Es un libro sobre distintas tematicas: cuentos, poemas, arte digital, cuadros y montajes fotograficos. Abarca distintas etapas de la vida de la autora y expresa su multifacetismo.Puede ver mas informacion en https://bookstore.librosenred...

SPECIAL WOMEN, LOVELY AND BEWITCHING -- extraordinary. Not to be crossed nor taken home to meet the folks.Monsters and demons casually destroying your sanity.Weirdness creeping into your soul -- to stay.Our beloved Frank and his ilk with their fetching...

The raw and tender truths that map out the shard sharp pain and deep dull ache beside the unrelenting resilience in this exquisite poetic plea, wail, and declaration personify the writer and the woman behind the words. They are a gift that Amber...

Spanning four books across a six year period, Darling's selected delivers a natural cohesion, a sense of the single, complex gesture, sharply whittled from these formerly separate visions. In the opening poem, Darling writes, "when she falls in love/...

《火車、時間與遐想》是作家張冠的第二本詩集，詩集收錄了張冠在2011年到2019年之間創作的部分現代詩歌。詩集分為兩部分。第一部分為一首長篇組詩《旅途》。多年前在一次長途列車上，張冠將窗外看到的一些景象記錄了下來。一些年之後，作者張冠以每一個景物為主題創作了長篇組詩《旅途》。第二部分為張冠創作的其他現代詩歌。 張冠，男，1984年出生於遼寧省沈陽市，青年作家、詩人、導演、編劇。2012年中國傳媒大學碩士研究生畢業，2015年畢業於美國加州大學洛杉磯分校。曾創作出版長篇小說《誰把流光辜負了》、《情...

“From the Beginning Until Now” contains poetry that reflects on my trials and tribulations of life, my spirituality, and how others have made an impact on my life.  This book captures the writer through her times of...

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their...

Clark Ashton Smith could well be considered one of the great poets of the twentieth century, and much of his verse explores the realms of fantasy, terror, wonder, and the supernatural. In this volume-the first major selection of Smith's poetry in more...

In recent years, Wade German has established himself at the very pinnacle of contemporary weird poetry. This new poetry collection, following his scintillating debut volume, Dreams from a Black Nebula (Hippocampus Press, 2014), shows why every poem by...

The fourteenth issue of Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry features the work of such leading poets as Ann K. Schwader, Christina Sng, K. A. Opperman, Adam Bolivar, Frank Coffman, Geoffrey Reiter, and Leigh Blackmore. Manuel Arenas,...

Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life's tensions and polarities are energies we carry within ourselves.These are poems of witness and commentary, conversation and meditation...

Like a bird, life is free. Encage it, and it would be unhappy. These are my poems of love and life. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Have you ever had to wait? Have you ever known divine truths ahead of time? Have you ever known that you know what you know, but you do not know how you know? The bible has several examples of men and women who had to wait on God's promises. It tells us...

My interest in writing poetry has been a goal of mine over the years. However, at this point in my life, my inspiration has been my two sons and grandson. And my choice could not be better. Thank God for them and others I may touch in my writing.

This book of poems is called Blue Collar Poet because Rhoads is not a highbrow poet.  Her writings are based on everyday happenings and the humor she finds in life, as well as the sadness that comes to us all.  She writes about the beauty of...

My poems have helped me see things for years now. Looking back on my poems, written and now collected, I discover I see things anew, not only the remembered incidents (when that happens) but also the vision created in my mind by the poem itself. These...

For more blessings read my fundamental Christian books listed in the preface of this book. In a writing contest the judges of a popular writing magazine concerning some of my books, stated, "...outstanding ...plot, story appeal, structure, organization,...

In Turning Base, Betsy Lynch examines transience, love and grief, parenting, learning to let go and not learning to let go, teaching and learning, recovery, fear and aging, awareness of God, doubt, and powerlessness. Above all, she seeks connectedness;...

Patricia Franklin, born in Prescott, Arkansas and raised in the little county town in Antoine, Arkansas. Mother of three wonderful children, grandmother of eleven and great-grandmother of two.In the earlier part of my life, I've always loved to write...

This book was written with the hope that you will find yourselves somewhere within the pages for inspiration, laughter, clarification, and/or hope. I have chosen to organize the pages so that the reader could enjoy the various styles from a serious point...

The poems in this book are as diverse as you can imagine. There are poems of Irish imagination as well as poems of triumph and sadness in tragedy. There are love poems and poems observing the vicissitudes of our curious society. There are poems that...

The Right Direction is a collective work of poems and short stories that showcase the love of God in multiple ways, as each piece tells its own story of commitment and undying faithfulness. The devil is always planning our demise with great care...

This poetry book is a reaction to my wife Deborah Glaefke Gilbert’s passing on June 6, 2017, from adenocarcinoma due to asbestos poisoning. The poetic form is a form I invented. I am calling it the Glaefke Sonnet. It is both a five-stanza ballad...

This book is a compilation of poems and soul songs. The collection depicts four stages in the journey toward self-realization and self-love. The first stage is remembrance—one that exists in the realm of the imagination. It describes memories,...

“As you begin to read this beautiful volume, be prepared to experience the exquisite pain of discovery, for you may find your assumptions about others will be challenged. The rawness will stay with you and touch your heart and your thinking. The...