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  • On Furious Wings

    new and selected poems
    by

    Erase History if you dare. She returns on furious wings. This remarkable grouping of approachable poems deals with the struggles of ordinary people coming to terms with the forces of history. The author draws on his early experiences as a refugee...


  • War and Other Inconveniences

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    This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of “A Pretty Good Planet” appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of “Guernica, Then and Now,” appeared in Canadian...


  • Taunting Thoughts from the Dark Abyss

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    A job seeker cycles through endless rejection. An exchange student at a casino makes a desperate bid for escape. A woman survives a horrific assault only to encounter another monstrous injustice. These raw, roiling poems give voice to those lost...


  • Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks

    A Journey of Self-Discovery
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    "Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks: A Journey of Self-Discovery" is a free-verse poem about a young mixed-blood (European and Indigenous) male who, during a solo canoe trip, discovers hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs. By...


  • Voices of Awdal

    Somali Wisdom and Heritage in Verse
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    “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful” – Rita Dov What does it mean to preserve a legacy through words? Somali poets answer this question with the fierce beauty and timeless wisdom of their verse. This anthology shines a...


  • Notes from Oblivion

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    Notes from Oblivion will appeal to an adult readership that enjoys hard-hitting, thought-provoking poetry. Themes explored include unsophisticated populism, media saturation, freedom and censorship, isolation, and the angst of love. They are...


  • Mannaka The Dreadlock Prostitute The Debate

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    This Book is a Masterpiece of Art that Offers Remedy to Readers of All Classes. This Book is a Therapeutic Exercise that gives Healing Socially and Individually and a Reading That You are Bound to Enjoy! This Book is Musical, and Theatrical, yet...


  • I Donat

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    I! Donat : Continues the tradition Y.S.H.D.A.N I Will Nevah Blackslide I Barbarian Vibes-eth in English Yardie (patois) Stylie Embrace I culture a'WOKE'nly {Worthy Of Kindness&Empathy} battah dung Instutionalized Race-I-sm DEMs PXKMs booklessly...


  • Every Religion Has Two Faces

    Poetic Questionings
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    The poems in this book explore humankind's relationship with nature, nature's combination of bountifulness and cruelty, and how man resembles and differs from other species. They ponder the tension between faith and doubt, the good and the evil...


  • Embers

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    I have sat at the feet of teachers, who have sat at the feet of masters, so I have touched enlightenment thrice removed, which has the feeling of a handsome baseball glove in a shop window that I have not the money to buy. I know this feeling...