Family Poetry

Christmas is coming! Bells jingle, sleds dash through the snow, trees are topped with sparkling stars, and children everywhere dream of candy canes and presents. But the best gift of all - the most magical gift of the season - is when we spend Christmas with those we love.

Our family adventures, and crazy stories are shared through poetry and laughter. Angels, embarrassing moments, scary details the police mistakenly told us, visitations from birds who are off their flight schedule - just for us, teeth flying in the air and landing in a cow pasture, flying automobiles landing behind the cab of an eighteen-wheeler's flatbed, and more! You will remember these events. We often recall these stories, too. We never shush each other, but rather, we share them over and over. You will find yourself telling our family secrets!

After receiving the news that in vitro would be her only hope for biological children, award-winning poet Emily Adams had to learn to live in a new world of needles, embarrassing tests, long waiting periods, and expensive doctor appointments.

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Soon, her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. She sends Macy next door to help 86-year-old Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move into an assisted-living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own, and, worse, she doesn't know sign language. Soon, through notes and books and cookies, a bond grows between them, and this friendship, odd and unexpected, may be just what Macy needs to face the changes in her life.

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings", Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times.

MOTHER'S DAY TRIBUTES AND CARDS AND THOUGHTS AND EXPRESSIONS. VERY POIGNANT SELECTIONS. PERHAPS THE WRITING WILL INSPIRE YOU TO LET YOUR MOM KNOW HOW SHE AFFECTED YOU. THERE IS A WIDE VARIETY OF SITUATIONS HERE.

La Abuela Marta ******************* Una mañana soleada; con el cielo iluminado, El gato negro y el blanco afuera habían caminado; Para calentarse en el sol; toda esa tarde aprovechaban, Y los últimos días calurosos de junio así disfrutaban.

Whether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them - of us - poetry can save.

The Willies, Falkner’s first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into queerhood in America. Departing from a more familiar coming out narrative he centers the stories of dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. At its core, The Willies asks us to consider who we will become if we do not grapple with what scares us most.

Finding Light in Philadelphia is a collection of poetry and short stories that explore several existential questions and society issues. The book takes the listener on an exciting journey filled with thought-provoking questions, excitement, deep reflection, and self-evaluation.

Poetry for every listener. Bibliophile has three sections. Poems about family fill "The Tie that Binds." Poetry about art is the theme of "A Thousand Words." The book ends with a section of humorous poems, "Flights of Fancy."

Bestselling author and mom blogger Bunmi Laditan vulnerably shares the prayers she's prayed for her children as inspiration for your own prayer life. Refreshingly relatable, bravely honest, and deeply heartwarming, Help Me, God, I'm a Parent meets you right where you're at and gives voice to the thoughts everyone--even you--has about parenthood that they are afraid to say out loud.

Renia White is a first-time author. Her debut collection, Casual Conversation, was chosen by Aracelis Girmay as a Blessing the Boats Selection. Named in honor of Lucille Clifton’s National Book Award-winning collection, Blessing the Boats Selections spotlight new poetry collections by women poets of color. Previous Blessing the Boats Selections include Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes and Year of the Dog by Deborah Paredez.

The women in Allison Adair’s debut collection—luminous and electric from the first line to the last—live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores. They understand the nature of being hollowed out, of being “the planet’s stone / core as it tries to carve out one secret place and fails.” And so, as these poems take us from the midst of the Civil War to our current era, they chart fairy tales that are at once unsettling and painfully familiar, never forgetting that cruelty compels us to search for tenderness.

NO ‘MO CHAINS ‘HOLDIN ME: Book of Poems, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown, address an interlinked system of a wide array of rusty subject matters coupled with societal ill-wills of chain-linked, padlocked and cold-blooded conditions that are off limit topics. Drummond-Brown’s poetic and philosophical contributions largely appeals to the reader, holding their attention at bay with her profound words, via ball-and-chain while her poesies discourse a corroded era of disheartening events ringing out in this 21st century. Drummond-Brown’s weighted subject matter connects from culture-to-...

Introducing The Greatest Book of Hypnotic Seduction Poetry for Couples Therapy and Beyond... 'Hypnopoetics' is a groundbreaking blend of hypnotic poetry and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques designed to reignite passion, connection, and desire between partners. Whether you're looking to strengthen your bond, reignite the spark, or explore deeper intimacy, this book offers a unique tool for couples therapy and relationship enhancement. Through beautifully crafted, mildly erotic poems, Hypnopoetics gently captivates the mind, evoking desire, attraction, and a renewed sense of ...

A poetry collection about the beautiful and disorienting period of new motherhood, exploring an experience both otherworldly and very, very human.

Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts & Poems explores not only Madsen's remarkable life and experiences in and out of Hollywood, but also his familial influences that have participated in crafting and shaping him, including thoughts on his father; his mother and the rumor that he was born without a left hand; ghosts, whiskey, and payback; Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and "sensitive sons of bitches"; the mentality of actors and growing up to be a man; his first audition; drunken behavior; epic drinkers; and much, much more.

A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human.

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation—and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two.