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Grasping the Fading Light by Julie Bloss KelseyWinner of the 2021 International Women’s Haiku Contest. Order copies here This manuscript has a global feel in spite of it being a personal experience. The poems are strong and forceful and at
“In the poems of Fairy Tale, magic and beauty thread the speaker’s path through forests of cruelty and risk. The vivid, particular world of Langley’s speaker traces an arc from childhood into maturity, sharing with us a sweetness inseparable from danger, “the knowledge that all / cherry pits contain a small dose of cyanide.”
– Cindy Huyser, poet and editor, author of Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems
In Eating the Light, these new poems of Mary Moore ‘s new poems offer a feast for the reader. On subjects both natural and human-wrought, her eye is the painter’s: vividly clear. She creates an appetite for looking and a fulfillment of seeing. Moore’s perceptions are sensuous, intelligent, and the world in the poems is a world transformed both physically and emotionally. Her metaphors illuminate and satisfy, and having dined with her, we begin to glow, sated on such delectables. These poems embody a kind of mystical sensitivity to the sources of life: immediate, continuously perishing, making its considerable mark in these gorgeous lines.
This collection is a powerful testament to the ebb and flow/ highs and lows of early recovery. Return provides a glimpse into a process seldom seen. The process of recovery skillfully woven into a poetic style of descriptive precision. Return is a snapshot of body bags, key tags, 90 day intervals and the triumph of that first year of freedom. For this poet, this is only the beginning.
The history of Sacajawea, who traveled with Lewis & Clark on their expedition, has been documented by the writings in their journals, and her story has been told and retold through the years, even to our school children. But how often do we get a chance to travel along with Sacajawea on her inner journey as well?
Sacajawea’s Song is the beautifully-imagined journey — both across the land and the landscape of the heart — of one of this country’s best-known native daughters, Sacajawea.
The Essence of Less invites you, from the time you discover you have too much stuff—or too much media-, information-, social-, work- and device-driven overload – to enter its pages and allow focus to be your guide through Clark’s exploration and celebration of “lessness” — including the times to
“Let it go—bow your head, drop your eyes with a sigh;/ Give the pearl to the sea, the balloon to the sky.”
Sexism. Racism. You don’t have to look very far in the news to find that these problems that should already be behind us – indeed, decades ago — are still with us and uglier than ever. Once again, our young people are speaking out. One such young person is Kelly Rae Williams.