Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Places
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Rebel Dove Poems
Poet passenger pigeons taken over the Way of Horus notify their messages along the pharaonic line by Sylvia Horricks
Rebel doves in kite formation num’rous fly. Above Horus Way line, Thoth’s envoys darken lunar tides. A flock of passenger pigeons transformed military messages into poems on what they saw between watchtowers on the Way of Horus and Tanis. Over...
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Silences and Solitude
by Richard Torrans
Silences and Solitude is a six-part collection of lyric and narrative poetry and one thirteen-page dramatic poem. It was written over a forty-year span and contains poems that are remarkable perspectives on extraordinary places. This collection...
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Offertories
Exclamations and Disequilibriums by Barbara Simmons
This collection of free-verse poetry travels, along with the author, across her lifetime—from high school through college and graduate school, past marriage, divorce, and the death of a parent, deep into raising children, always finding a new...
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Flowing Over the Land and Water
A Settler's Reflections on the Decolonization of Self and Systems by Michael Pealow
We are living in a time characterized by violence in many forms, stemming from systems built upon mental models that need to be challenged. Flowing Over the Land and Water—a collection of poetic reflections—marks a threshold for anyone on a...
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Treasure of Pearls
Celebrating Life Lived, in Poetry by Selwyn Almeida
This collection of poems and illustrations celebrates the vision-widening joys of travel and multiculturalism while bringing to light the urgent need for tolerance, love, compassion, and respect for the old, young, and vulnerable. Author Selwyn...
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Home is Here
a memoir by Yin Xzi Ho
Where do you come from? Where do you call home? Why? Often, when we think about belonging, we associate it with our country of birth, or the country we are raised in. This stems from the common belief that the place of one’s origin is the place...
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Pricking Balloons
by James C. MacDonald
These poems transport the reader to an imaginative world resonating with mythological, spiritual, and existential significance. Here, with wit and irony, the poet challenges us to resist common assumptions with measured skepticism, and posits...
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A Stroke of the Foot
by Judith McCudden
We only get one chance on this planet. Stepping out of our comfort zones, taking risks, and making a new life where one is a stranger, are sometimes the best choices we can make. A Stroke of the Foot is a poetry collection of great beauty,...
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Always Hungry and Perpetually Blue
by Echo Andersson
Another page in another paper on another day on another train A raw, witty, and longing self-exploration amid a transformational love-affair with New York City, Andersson’s late night train rides are the heartbeat to her raw, conversational...
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Ten Cities
The Past Is Present by Wayne Johnston
Each of us has memories that are born of particular places. When we return to those places we enter a realm where the past engages in dialogue with the present. Our ghosts from the past persist even when the places have changed, our memories have...
