Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage studen...

The most famous collection and largest selling title on the Write Bloody roster. Butterfly Knife contains such award winning pieces such as The Kurosawa Champagne A Finger Two Dots Then Me Pleased to Meet You Yellow The Chinese Elevator and Hot for Sorrow. These are his classic unforgettable works of poetry and fiction from 1993-2004. A wit as sharp as Sedaris a sensibility as poignant as Sexton Brown manages to blur the lines between cult writer and poet with remarkable ease and grace. -A...

Ralph does not have any friends at his new school, until his meets the weird and wonderful Margo, or "Hot Hands." Margo is a strange girl with hands made of fire. Will she ever be able to hug anyone? Will she ever be able to make a snowman without melting it? Read this amazing book to find out! This is what being a true friend is all about.

The inaugural actions of the Brazil-United Kingdom Dance Medicine & Science Network (BRUK NET) emerged through the organization of the symposium "The Potentials and Challenges of Research in Dance Medicine & Science: building innovation collaborations between the United Kingdom and Brazil" held in Goiânia, in 2016. In this bilingual Portuguese-English book, 23 leading researchers/authors from the BRUK NET write about their experiences in this field. The idea of the book is to share part of...

Derrick Brown’s long awaited new collection of poetry and prose, Scandalabra, is a book that boils with true grit Americana, sensual power and black oceanic wildness. About.com rated his newest collection 'Scandalabra' as one of the top poetry books of 2009. Written at sea aboard a fishing vessel and in the hills of Tennessee, these poems roar in six unique sections never before seen from this acclaimed writer. I wish I had written “Patienceâ€. I mean written it down on paper. I’ve though...

Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage studen...

Derrick C. Brown is a comedian, poet and storyteller. He is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former Paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call "...one of the best independent poetry presses in the country," Love is the only war with dying for. This collection contains all new work from All The Energies of Death and the best works from Derrick's previous works: Born in the Year of the...

A hearing impaired boy is denied becoming a lifeguard due to his impairment. He spends his days alone at the shore when he notices a Beluga whale trapped by �sea trash†and must save it. They become friends and the boy finds beauty in an oceanic world without sound. The boy must help the whale return to it�s Mother, but the whale has some saving of his own to do.

It’s the first day of school and Ralph is the new kid. He does not have any friends to eat lunch with until he meets the weird and wonderful Margo, or “Hot Hands.†Margo is a strange girl with hands made out of fire. These two shy classmates help each other overcome their fears. Ralph wants a new friend. Margo wants something else: Will she ever be able to hug anyone without hurting them? Will she ever be able to make a snow man without melting it? Will she ever feel normal? Is normal al...

Her clothes don’t fit, she dances crazy, and this porcupine could sure use a hug. Will she ever find someone to dance with? A great tale about how to make friends.

Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns challenges us to not only read but to react. Hauntingly vivid the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate" and tangle with a lover's witty and vibrant description of longing. Gibson's poems deconstruct the current political climate through stunning imagery and careful crafting. With the same velocity the poign...

Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin YoungThe poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that...