Poetry Text & Anthologies

The best things I write are poems about heartbreak. It may sound strange as I think about the love in my life; however, I've lived through many heartbreaking moments. And yet, I wouldn't trade those moments. In fact, I feel endless gratitude for them. They are all I am and have made me into the person I am today.

Our second annual poetry anthology features contributions from fifteen queer and trans writers who are currently incarcerated. This collection of poems explores themes of Black resistance to the PIC, rock bottom and its aftermath, and the resilience that can be found from committing to love. Profits from this anthology will go directly to the poets' commissary accounts to help offset costs for food, clothing, art supplies, gender-affirming items, legal fees, medical copays, and more while t

Against a backdrop of newsfeeds and hints of eco-doom, #TheNewCrusades centers on a series of letters to an uncertain deity hovering above and within a particular American madness. These poems are fractured little diaries seeking a wholeness; they track the ways we move back and forth between larger social-political selves and inner-personal selves. The news here is professed through protests, graffiti, broken mirrors, ambient radio, synchronized fires, and all-night newsfeeds--all of it projec

(Not) Another Love Story is an emotionally challenging journey to self-love and self-discovery.

Angelo Di Luca e nato a Vallo della Lucania il 21 luglio 1995 e risiede a Licusati (SA). Diplomato al Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo da Vinci" di Vallo della Lucania, e laureato in Filosofia presso l'Universita degli Studi di Salerno e in Clarinetto presso il Conservatorio di musica "Domenico Cimarosa" di Avellino. Appassionato di Filosofia classica, Storia romana, Poesia e Musica settecentesche, ha pubblicato: per la Casa Editrice "Centro Promozione Culturale per il Cilento" la raccolta in versi

t'ai freedom ford's second collection of poems is direct, ingenious, vibrant, alive, queer, and BLACK. & more black won the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry in 2020 and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Life should be lived with no filter. Autumn Siders' collection of poetry and short stories exemplifies that idea and more.

(Another) collection of free-verse, poetry and prose dealing with the universal concepts of loss and longing. A fictional and heartbroken Romeo transcribes the stages of a relationship, from the tension and excitement of the chase all the way through to the bitter end. Wrapped in self-loathing and vicious introspection, this volume exposes the thought process of a breaking, slowly soul.

you will find in this book poems and words about how i felt in the past two years some are about you some are about others i try to be as honest as possible however difficult this is a labor of love

.M.oments (Volume One) is the first volume of twenty, with each volume being a collection of works that describe significant experiences that have marked the life of the poet, D. Mars Yuvarajan. .M.oments is a work of love, penned in dedication to the muse that has has been the font of inspiration for Mars's literary collections: his wife.

The eighth collection of poems by Kevin J. O'Conner. Arranged in six sections-Alphabet Poems I and II, Scenarios and Observations, Shadorma, Grief, and In My Bubble-the book contains a total of 94 poems, among them 'The doors on the right will open', 'Bill Bixby tongue twister', 'Quest of the missing blue Peep', and ''Be safe out there.''

"The voices in & Grace are voices of seekers. Sometimes these seekers find answers, other times they stumble upon more questions. Unquestionably, though, these poets find poems -- urgent, wise, alive with spirit. And grace. This is my favorite Lexington Poetry Anthology so far." --Katerina Stoykova-Klemer