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  • Reminiscence Armada

    selected poems
    by

    The walls begin to crack, fissures running along The beams of its back, the pipes of its veins. It can no longer support the emptiness of its weight, The void of its rooms, the deafening sound of no one. (“Dusk Is When I Think of You Most”)...


  • Wash Me Away

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    Wash Me Away is a moving collection of short prose poems reflecting on relationships, sexuality, heartbreak, and the process by which we move on from messy relationships. Straddling the line between essay and poem, these pieces explore the nuance...


  • Photographic Poetry

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    Have you ever wished there was a real time machine? Do you want to laugh so hard you cannot breathe? Whatever happened to that old school love? These are the questions of a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. Through heartbreak and loss, nostalgia...


  • Memories of a Lover

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    Rejected love, ecstatic love, misguided love—Memories of a Lover explores complex and intensely vivid experiences of love and relationship in this collection of poems. Rare moments of perfect connection between the lover and the beloved sit...


  • Spoonful of Tears

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    How do we cope when the person we’ve hung our hopes on inevitably disappoints us? How can we love again? What if we can’t forgive them? What if we can’t forgive ourselves? In Spoonful of Tears, poet Victoria Allyce explores the emotional knots we...


  • I Just Love You

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    Sometimes the greatest love stories are the ones you didn't see coming. The authors, both on their own at the time, rediscovered one another and fell in love. Each week, inspired by his love for her, he would write a love verse for them to share....


  • When The Sun Rains

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    I just want to feel safe enough to love and loved enough to trust it. A. Zovic’s debut collection of poetry unmasks experiences often silenced, stories we are told to suppress—those of heartbreak, of mental health, of body image issues, of...


  • Calling a Spade a Spade

    Poetry & Prose
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    In this original collection of poetry and prose, author Kaitlyn Sanders reflects in depth on love and relationships, individual growth and self-love, grief, loss, hope and healing. Over the course of this collection, Sanders generates a diverse...


  • Beyond the Gate

    Poetry and Photography
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    When the world amazes and words fail the rest of us, true poets step up to capture such moments forever, and then hold them up for the consideration, edification, and enjoyment of others … like precious gems best viewed from multiple angles. The...


  • the words unsaid

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    This sparse, tense collection of free verse poetry chronicles the trauma of being in a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship, how hard it is to feel stuck when the relationship ends, and the growth and healing that comes when the ashes...