Healing Asked Me to Return Tomorrow is a poetry collection for anyone learning how to live with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and the quiet, persistent fear of what tomorrow might bring. It is written for those who feel everything deeply, whose nervous systems are tired, and who are trying to heal without rushing themselves through the process.These poems begin in the body-in racing thoughts, tight chests, sleepless nights, and the moments when fear feels louder than reason...

Flex, as the title suggests, is a compilation of poetry that reflects the jumbled inner workings of a twentysomething millennial who is trying to figure out who she is and where she fits into the grand scheme of things. Perhaps you can relate? A healthy obsession with nature and dogs, coupled with an interest in mental-health, womens rights, and body positivity will aid in the digestion of these materials.

Sixteen-year-old Lauren Harts summer is shaping up to be a first-rate disaster. Even after she asks God to make things the way they used to be, Laurens reality is still as harsh as ever. Her parents are separated, and now she has to help care for her terminally ill grandma. Just as Lauren wonders what else could go wrong, it does.Lauren and her horse, Dawn Treader, are ranked number one in the Junior Hunter Division and are headed to the national finalsthat is until Dawn leaps out ...

Abiha has been banned from her home in the village of the first forest. Once she left, she must wait for an invitation to return. Finally, her mother needs her to return to gain the permission of the elders for her sister's wedding to a local young man. Abiha is on the next transport home.She changes into the traditional garb that is all that is ever worn in the village, leaves all her tech behind, and after a security check, she enters the walled forest and inhales the scent of hom...

Out of nowhere, three weeks ago, I picked up the phone to the sound of his soft, dewy inflection drawing out my name. My knees buckled, inflaming the itch at the back of my neck. He didn't have to identify himself. I knew.This man's hands encircled my hips like so many chains of love.Then he cleared his throat and said the thing: "I have AIDS."

Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliationWhite⋅out: n. a surface condition … in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible …Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised ima...

For a long time, people have looked to science as a way to understand their own lives. But while science has proven itself a useful metaphor, it has just as often been exposed as being as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. Newcomer Leigh Kotsilidis's lively, thoughtful and refreshingly speculative first collection engages and questions the linguistic roots of the hypothetical, both as they apply to the Scientific Method and its faith in certainty, and tothe word's alternate mean...

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted—only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as c...

Welcome to this, my third collection of poems. In this collection, I am proud to present you with some love. These poems deal with loves and relationships in all their wonderful and woeful manifestations. Some of the poems are a little raunchier than others, but there's nothing (too) offensive or smutty in them!

**Winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature AwardA thrilling, discursive second collection from “a poet for this hour—bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive” (Mark Doty).**The poems in Ari Banias’s thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, Banias contends with the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancest...

This playful collection of poems ranging from humorous, to thoughtful, to adventurous is anything but predictable. In this work you will find death, love, happiness and our place in the universe as much a theme and the subject for humor and introspection as rabbits, kitchen utensils, nerdy scientists and garbage day. This versatile blend of parody, free verse, syllabic verse, sonnets, cinquains and other poetic forms does not distract but adds to author's unique sound and voice. At once se...

Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal.In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos. Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction. Here, the social politeness of motherly domesticity and the raw dangers of adolescent sexual a...