Annie is the author of four published books of poetry, Butterflies and Bumblebees, Apron Full O Apples, Frog Houses and The Sandpiper. Her writing is extremely poignant and emotional. She stresses good times and bad. Her words bring laughter and tears. At The End Of The Cotton Rows, is different in the fact that it is not poetic, instead, her words simply paint a picture of life as she knew it, so clearly you can feel the sweat drops on your brow and feel the pull of the pick sack on your ...

The Sandpiper is a book of poems that is easy to read and easily understood as it is made up of emotions and things that most of us, as young to old adults will identify with. There is beauty to be found in even the saddest events we share through out a lifetime. The Sandpiper touches on many subjects and follows one womans events and paints a happy picture and often a sad face as she deals with a normal life that includes marriage, children, divorce and death. It shows the importance of f...

Racing Hummingbirds examines critiques and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process. Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives prayers and conjurings which address gender sex race poverty heartbreak and survival with such stark intimacy you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclai...

Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild surreal poems. These are memories of a life, captured through ...

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny HoweThis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instinct...

They live all over North America. There may even be one living in your house! How much do you know about these wily creatures? Do you know:Do people eat raccoons?How many babies does a raccoon mother have?Where do raccoons live?Can a raccoon reach up and turn the knob to open a door?Find out what a raccoon looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts.All measurements in American and metric....

In this book the author has used observations from the natural world to convey feelings about living through the seasons of life.

Rachel Rose follows her award-winning first book with a dazzling, urgent collection of new poems that look unflinchingly at our errors and our longings, in images that range from the disturbing to the spectacular. Anchoring the collection is a rich, unsentimental suite of lyrics on the journey of pregnancy and new motherhood. These poems are humanist, lushly imagined, and compellingly voiced.

Love. Such a small word with a huge meaning. How many different kinds of love are there? Each one with its own little world of emotion, actions, and dreams. Several twisted, some passionate, a few real. But out of all of them, everyone is simply trying to get to the same goal, reach the similar point of no return, and smother identical desires. It all comes down to one thingone wantto love. And be loved.

There are many different kinds of horses in the world. Some are short. Some are huge. Some come in one color, and some come in many colors. But they are all beautiful.All horses have long, thin legs and a big round body. They have a long, curved neck and a big head with large eyes.Horses have been a help to man for thousands of years. In that time, we have changed the horse into the kind of animal we want it to be. Man has bred horses for many years.To breed a horse me...

Life is cyclical. From the seasons to the length of the day, life changes. Perception does too. The poems here offer a unique way of looking at the universe and the things in it, warming you, enticing you, or simply giving you a chuckle.Pencil on paperscribbled over time, to accomplisha lifelong dream

A Southern-born poet's journey of reflection and pilgrimage to the streets of HarlemIn this new collection of poems, Weary Kingdom, DéLana R. A. Dameron maps a journey across emotional, spiritual, and geographic lines, from the familiarity of the honeysuckle South to a new world, or a new kingdom—Harlem. Her poems traverse the streets of this Black mecca with a careful eye cast toward the intimacies of the exterior. Still, as the poems move throughout the ...