For all of the girls who have been traumatized and brutalized by romantic love. For every girl who died inside because someone else decided to break us for fun. For every woman who knows feminine rage in its most basic form all too well. For all those girls who fell back in love with themselves, and became women with strength and resilience -- this book of poetry is for you. A thoughtful confrontation of unhealed trauma with nothing but love,...

These three short plays move along with dialog that's beautifully natural, lyrical, and often surprisingly poetic. Even the tragic play contains kernels of wit, while the comedic stirs the mind to thought in the midst of hilarity. Players will find that their powers of connection, one to another, will be powerfully called upon, as the dialog always inextricably links them together. The collection includes one tragedy, one noir fantasy, and one comedy:...

Featured on Quill & Quire's Fall Preview A nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada's preeminent poets. South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and European men, and midwifery by Indigenous women of the nascent settler communities figure into these poems. They...

A Voice in the Downpour is a smaller collection of poems. Each piece deals in some way with the desire for perfection. The chaos of a moment in time as it passes, and the process of listening to the hopeful voice that emerges in the midst of the storm.

Wrestle your inner demons. Experience heartbreak, pain, and jolting realizations as you walk through the carnage of someone else's nightmare. Come to the realization that you are not alone in your torment and agony. There are others who grabble with the same dark thoughts whispered by the darkness.

This collection of eighty poems is meant to bring encouragement and inspiration to anyone who has ever thought or dreamed of writing, whether personally or professionally. Writing takes many forms, whether it's a letter, diary, blog, article, story, play, poem, or novel. I will confess my writing leans in favor of fiction. These poems are also meant for readers, because we cannot have one without the other. The goal of any author is to have universal...

Despite our ethnic group, race, or background, we all share similar emotional struggles-sorrow, happiness, fears, anxieties, suffering, and joy. A Kite Caught in the Sky beautifully expresses our shared human condition through this collection of modern poetry by Dr. Zeenat Chowdhury-Jackson. During her medical career, she has been privileged to serve various ethnic groups, races, and backgrounds, and has witnessed firsthand the similarity between...

This book is a collection of poems written by a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. It is a journey of healing and survival.

On May 10th 2018, Jim Gibans, Nina's husband of more than 60 years died. In April of 2018, when Jim's health started to decline, Nina wrote to him, she wrote him poetry. She wrote him a poem almost every day. And she read them to him. Rosepetals: towards memory... is a collection of poetry by Nina Gibans in honor and celebration of her late husband Jim Gibans.

Breathe Together takes its title from the Latin root words of the word "conspiracy," which also gives the central poem its title. It is both deeply personal and universally relatable, and it speaks to the resilience and humanity of those who lived through complex losses and betrayals during these traumatic times. The language is both mystical and cerebral, with a strong sense of imagery, reflection, and raw emotion. The collection is not only a meditation...