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March 1, 2022
Ashes to Justice by R.E.I.L.
Source: GBF Paperback, 46 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate (**note that this collection could be triggering for child abuse survivors) Ashes to Justice by R.E.I.L. is a deeply personal collection of poetic resilience and strength. The opening poem, “Piece for PEACE” is a tribute to her grandmother and the strength she showed the young […]
February 27, 2022
Mailbox Monday #672
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
February 24, 2022
Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience edited by Melanie Henderson, Enzo Silon Surin, and Truth Thomas
Source: Purchased Paperback, 140 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience edited by Melanie Henderson, Enzo Silon Surin, and Truth Thomas is a gorgeous magazine quality anthology of poignant poems about Black Americans’ experiences, joys, passions, and frustrations. But it is more than that. It is a look at […]
February 23, 2022
Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant by Indran Amirthanayagam
Source: GBF Paperback, 90 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant by Indran Amirthanayagam opens with the “Migrant Song,” part plea, part love song to those who have fled homes to make new ones. “We write/poems for our tribes, making one tribe of/every beating heart sending blood through/the veins of […]
February 22, 2022
Water Shedding by Beth Konkoski
Source: GBF Paperback, 26 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Water Shedding by Beth Konkoski is a chapbook of stunning images that illustrate the shedding of an old self to make way for the emergence of another. In the opening poem, “Linger,” the narrator recalls how they needed to fit into a mold of another. […]
February 20, 2022
Mailbox Monday #671
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
February 16, 2022
Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen
Source: GBF Paperback, 78 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen, winner of The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, is almost a letter to those who have left their homeland in Vietnam. We begin with a flight in “The Body as a Series of Questions:” (pg. 1) I was […]
February 15, 2022
Will by Will Smith (audio)
Source: Purchased Audiobook, 16+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Will by Will Smith, narrated by the author, is a phenomenal memoir about his family, his rise to fame, his will to be the best rapper and movie star, and his struggles with emotions. Narrated by Smith himself is like a trip and Audible has […]
February 14, 2022
Your Words, Your World by Louise Bélanger
Source: the Poet Paperback, 99 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Your Words, Your World by Louise Bélanger, which toured with Poetic Book Tours, is a collection of nature photography and poetry. To me, however, the poems read more like a daily devotional, something many of us may need as the pandemic continues into its […]
February 13, 2022
Mailbox Monday #670
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
