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"I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one" So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality,...
2) Sharing
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Poems portray sharing--of things and time and self.
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"You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule contains wisdom...
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Stigma often brings experiences and feelings of shame, blame, hopelessness, distress, misrepresentation in the media, and reluctance to seek and/or accept necessary help. Approximately 75% of people with a mental illness report that they have experienced stigma. This book shares poetry about depression and real stories of people who have dealt with stigma.
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Set in the older urban neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Everything Reaches Out to Everything Else shares poetry that explores the nature of our contemporary world and the interconnectedness of life. Included is the poem Atwater, which received the Crossing Boundaries Award for Innovative and Experimental Writing from International Quarterly.
These heartfelt poems capture longings, fears, and the beauty of the moment, while also recognizing the anxiety...
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Within the pages of his first book, Robert describes his life journey through the words of his poetry and letters. Some of these entries are autobiographical in nature and reference his traumatic childhood experiences as well as a recent bipolar diagnosis. He takes us on his journey from childhood sexual abuse to reconciliation and healing as a mature adult. In addition, he shares poetry dealing with nature, loved ones, friends, and the many unanswered...
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In a collection of poems inspired by the angels in her life who generously share their gifts and virtues with her, Bremer explores nature and spirituality and poses complex questions that prompt others to look inward for the answers. While finding joy in Gods magnificent plan, being gratitude to Spirit from circulating good around and through her, and being in the abundance that is naturally hers, Bremer recognizes her friends, one-by-one, in a lyrically...
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Author A. E. Fonner heard a call to go beyond what he was. Reborn and Other Versifications is the answer to that call.
Arranged in an evolutionary fashion, these verses demonstrate both personal growth and the process of grieving. As a whole, they illustrate the series of emotions we all experience as we make sense of the world around us and of our life within that world. In "Darkness," Fonner shares poetry that came to him at some of the lowest...
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Jesse Arzate knows life is an interesting journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and black and white moments that are sometimes unclear. Inspired by his desire to know more, he has developed a passion for encouraging others to observe humanity and then do what they can to live within a peaceful world.
In a collection of free verse, Arzate explores the sane and insane moments we all experience at one time or another in our lives. His poems...
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This work is a collaborative effort between my nephew and myself. Probably somewhere around 2007 my nephew and I began sharing poetry with one another. I always appreciated and really enjoyed his work. Back in 2017, after our conversation about psoriasis, a skin condition that I dealt with. He said, "Auntie you are God's pink leopard". He then followed it up with a poetic work, "The Pink Leopard", that truly inspired me to subsequently complete my...
11) Poetry Comics
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Combining poetry and comics in a whole new way, this fun and imaginative book is perfect for poetry lovers and reluctant readers alike.
From the cloud-gazing hours of early spring to the lost bicycles of late autumn, Grant Snider's brilliantly illustrated Poetry Comics will take you climbing, floating, swimming, and tumbling through all the year's ups, downs, and in-betweens. He proves that absolutely everything, momentous or minuscule, is worthy...
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Katherine Betham is a new Author with the release of her first Poetry Classique, The Order it shall Be, LIFE. Katherine is a New Zealand born Samoan Woman and Mother of four children, Liam (19) Jamie (17), Blaine (11) and Elyse (9 years). Katherine was born at Wellington Hospital on the 24th August 1970. She is the 10th child born of 12 children to Burton Cubitt and Elsie Betham. My parents were born and raised in Western Samoa; My Mum comes from...
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How do you feel about setting goals?I've heard people say they feel energized, depressed, confused, terrified, pumped, ambivalent, lost … or all of the above. Here's what I've realized:Our relationship to success is inside-out.When we make our New Year's resolutions, bucket lists, big plans, or weekly to-dos, we're hoping that when we "arrive" we'll be fulfilled. Our hearts will swell as we cross the finish line, and then we can finally relax and...
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"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again--the poems draw on the author's experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy,...
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Ovid's masterpiece, spanning from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, tells numerous legends sharing the theme of change in shape, often tales of humans who are transformed into animals, plants, or heavenly bodies in various encounters with the gods.
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"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
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