In her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems. Within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is no need to choose one or the other.

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American spiritual oratory. African-American scholars have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. The work went on to find acclaim in many circles, proving "enormously popular among both the black cognoscenti as well of the masses of black Americans"...

"Expressions of Grace" is a compilation of poetry that depicts the reflections the author has regarding conversations with God, love, intimacy, motherhood, loss, and gratitude. It is intended to relate to a wide audience bringing verbal expression to emotional matters. Open your mind and your heart to the impression that this Expression can make!

"This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight."--

One of The New York Times ' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets Memories mercies mostly aren't but there were I swear days veined with grace --from "Memory's Mercies" Once in the West , Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets--from the "suffering of primal silence" that it plumbs to the "rockshriek...

Our true purpose can only be discovered through knowing Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV), "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." I believe that nothing we have experienced is wasted. God has a way in his perfect timing of placing the pieces together; that eventually breaths the meaning into every season of what we had faced. Our Essence can now come forth - there,...

Larry Sheats, a loving husband, proud father, and passionate poet, invites you to embark on a journey through his collection of poems. In this introspective work, Larry explores the complexities of life, from the struggle to finding those lost to the pressure of high expectations and low self-esteem. His words capture the conflict of trying to save others without losing oneself and the beauty found in the darkness of others while searching for the...

Her brazen verse calls us out of our psychic swamplands and into that hard-won awareness of the divine hiding in the small moments that make us human. In a single poem she can generate tears, horror, empathy, laughter, and peace. She never preaches. But whether you're an adamant atheist, a pilgrim, or skeptically curious, these poems will urge you to find an inner light in the most baffling hours of darkness.

Revell's fifteenth collection creates a boisterous, magical world built upon Ancient Greek landscapes and Shakespearian tragedies and mixes it with modern-age life. These lively poems sweep readers into journeys of reflection, passion, and imagination as it explores human emotion along with the never-ending, dark mysteries of the mind.

Contemplating universal issues of love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief, Inquire Within shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul, Inquire Within is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You'll never look at poetry the same way again.