Drawing inspiration from Sappho, Mary Oliver, Greek myths and European fairy tales, Poem Begins With P, traces America's relationship with her Beloved through the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems follow a roller coaster of fear, heartbreak, anger, and grief, but through it all, America's love remains strong.

This book introduces a deeper understanding of what a season is. Through emotions, life circumstances, and strength, every poem is designed to reflect just how someone's season can either take them into their purpose or trying to "find" God.

From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...

She Asked Me Where explores the various ways in which the demons, darkness, and pain, both of ourselves and of others, manifest in our lives. It captures the pull of several spectrums innate to the human experience: pain and triumph, fear and power, longing and overcoming, the perfect and the flawed. This collection approaches the liminal spaces of these binaries through recurring themes that are connected in their struggle for control and understanding...

When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...

Run Away to the Yard is a unique collection of poems that addresses personal identity within the contemporary culture. In parable-like vignettes and metaphor-dense portraits, Krueger's poems challenge old notions of self, asking readers to reconsider what brings meaning to daily life. Through the lens of close observation―much like a photographer―Krueger examines the complexity of our responses to a convoluted world. Poems ask us to consider who...

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh and Wâpam are born under the same blood moon, but Eilidh was born in Scotland and Wâpam in Kihci-Manito kâ ayapit, now known as Manitoba. After sailing across the ocean in hopes of a more prosperous life, Eilidh meets Wâpam deep in the forest,...

Living in the iconic San Francisco Haight Ashbury district, these poems depict the scenes and people reflected as well as the author's thoughts on sex, love, family, friends, spirituality, consciousness, and the human experience. As the author has been " A Course in Miracles "student for over 40 years, many of the poems reflect humanity's spiritual connections to divine consciousness and serendipitous events that make life fun and interesting. She...

My canvas is empty until it is streaked with lines of the world of my heart. In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...

A collection of poems musing spiritual rebirth, lesbian love, and the reawakening of the soul.