soft thorns by bridgett devoue

15 Ways to Stay Alive

Damaged hearts, scattered goals, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and circulate in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb’s most up-to-date choice of startling new works that discover survival after own or communal mess ups and the renewal that follows. even if she’s writing approximately unanticipated results (“After the halfway trip Collapsed”), her mother’s passing (“Somewhere, Over”), or absurd occasions (“Preoccupation”), Gottlieb’s deeply own insights into the complicated components the place existence and modern tradition collide provide readers a distinct, thought-provoking point of view.

Mercurial

Mercurial is the most recent choice of poems from Allison Joseph: continually obtainable, musical, jam-packed with genuinely-earned knowledge, sass, and braveness. Joseph writes approximately daily events in deft, heartfelt poems that span the spectrum of poetic ambition–free verse narrative, brief lyrics, conventional rhyming kinds and topical meditations.

The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New

Granddaughters, asters, Medea muffins, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the excessive bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries through the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman and the Japonica Bushelful Bountiful woman: you are going to by no means mistake a Colleen Thibaudeau wordscape for the other.

My Poetic Journey

Come and take a trip on My Poetic trip. This trip will encourage you, inspire you, and convey gentle to the adventure you're now touring. it's not approximately the way you begin, it's approximately the way you end. end powerful! My Poetic trip brings wish to the hopeless, gentle to darkness, or even laughter in soreness.