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In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. With rich lyricism, power, and tenderness, Trace Evidence centers the racial periphery and excavates the vestiges of our violent colonial past in the most intimate aspects of our lives.

In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the selflessness of Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, of whom hundreds were African Canadian, fighting for the freedom of their brethren and the dawning of a new day.

This collection of poems by Jim Forbes is a rare rendering that will invite you to keep listening. Heartbreak from a failed marriage and separation from his beloved daughters both brought this poet to write during his darkest times.

I Asked the Wind is a sweeping adventure into our most basic drive for intimacy. If you like raw primal emotions, touching scenes, and joyous celebrations, then you'll adore Valerie Nifora's exploration of the soul.

Unsung, Arunoday Singh’s first volume of poetry, presents a collection of his most popular work alongside new material, where he delves inwards and probes questions of love, loss, longing-everything that ails the human heart.He has amassed a large, involved following on Instagram, where he...

This chapbook is a must-have for any listener who is interested in contemporary poetry that is unafraid to deal with complex topics in an honest and powerful way.

A Heart Searching for Its Soul, the fourth audiobook by veteran Carl Fazio, is filled with poignant poetry on themes as varied as love and loss, warmth and war, and determination and death.

With the changing seasons comes this poetry audiobook all about the constant shifts in life. From love to love lost, the excitement of new relationships, along with relationships falling by the wayside and the pain of misfortune, these poems cover a wide variety of life experiences.

These are poems about conversations that we'd like to have with ourselves and with others when our bodies and minds are fraying.

Sem poesia, a vida seria a morte. Imersa no cotidiano que escolheu, marcado por morte e sofrimento, a médica paliativista Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes fez da poesia a sua estratégia para não sucumbir.

Clara Jean Beaman Walker was the third of seven children born to Cora and Clarence Beaman in Knoxville, TN, in 1910. Considered to be “Little Mother” by her siblings, she always gave her best to her birth family and to the family she created with her husband, John Albert Walker. Three sons came from this union: Johnny, Clarence, and Henry. A teacher at heart, Jean saw each child before her and helped them navigate home economics, English, and realizing their potential.

Ayse Balkos's first book, Come to Tower, is the poetry collection of a fresh voice of a renegade woman, angry, hopeful, strong, confused, clear and vulnerable. The poems are accompanied by Ash Gray’s beautiful tones of hummingbird Gibson acoustic guitar, dazzlingly honest, unpretentious and real journey of a soul.

Esta obra es la esencia nostálgica que brota del rincón de mi existencia, las que presento en versos los que quizás muchos ojos leerán y al hacerlo no verán, mas mi voz gritara aunque quizás no se oiga, tal vez porque soy la simple lagrima que comienza a recorrer a ciegas y en la oscuridad los senderos de una faz desconocida. En cada uno de estos poemas me encuentro, porque cada uno formo parte de mi ser en algún momento de mi vida y en algún instante de mi vida fueron mi vida en ese instante.

A poem about consent.

Am I My Mother's Child is a poem about a daughter questioning her maternal lineage while experiencing cruelty from mother.

Black Man Cry and Not a Care Was Delivered details the heartbreak a Black man experiences when he feels the pain that he causes others.

The Underbird is a modern comeback story of a downtrodden underdog that makes a revolutionary comeback.

Black Boy Say You: Help Mama, Lost Be Mind offers a modern take on spirituality and mental health and details the worries of a young Black boy that fears his mind wanders too far.

A Preponderance of Thoughts is an ode to surviving depression. It outlines the author's frantic yet palpable emotions in a fight to stay alive. The poems explore and tackle the many questions asked when one's mind is spiraling into a perfect mess. An allegory of sorts that showcases the many fractured phases of a damaged existence. Outlined is the transition of a defeated soul metamorphosing into an empowered and victorious spirit.

Eine der Klassiker aus der Feder von Friedrich Schiller. "Sieh da! Sieh da, Timotheus, die Kraniche des Ibykus!" Schillers Rache-Ballade in der Interpretation von Mathieu Carrière. Ein Erlebnis.