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    Fetters Into Wings

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    Still and calm now is my night Your words and your truths, my guiding light Even though my enemies still choose to fight Yet there is sweet peace in my valley tonight How can poetry help us deal with trauma? How do we turn our fetters into wings?...

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    Beyond the Gate

    Poetry and Photography
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    When the world amazes and words fail the rest of us, true poets step up to capture such moments forever, and then hold them up for the consideration, edification, and enjoyment of others … like precious gems best viewed from multiple angles. The...

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    the words unsaid

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    This sparse, tense collection of free verse poetry chronicles the trauma of being in a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship, how hard it is to feel stuck when the relationship ends, and the growth and healing that comes when the ashes...

  • Burritt's Rapids and Beyond cover

    Burritt's Rapids and Beyond

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    In BURRITT’S RAPIDS AND BEYOND, “whatever flows, remains.” From Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, and rural Ontario, Louis Contant considers his place in the world. Fireflies, whip-poor-wills, squirrels, dragonflies, waterfalls, and the soulful...

  • Let’s Do Lemonade cover

    Let’s Do Lemonade

    Poems to Affirm Truth and Inspire Hope
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    What does it mean to lead a life of hope, faith, and virtue? When faced with a world with less and less of a shared concept of truth, where do we turn? And when life gives us lemons, what can we do? Through this collection of stylistically...

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    Excerpts From a Book Untitled

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    Our lives are a collection of moments that accumulate over time, flowing one into the next. When we experience those moments as deeply as possible, and learn from them, we grow, and we change. Struggling to find where you belong. Looking for love...

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    Bleached by Moonlight

    Poems
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    Bleached by Moonlight is a poetry collection that speaks in many voices. Showcasing the breadth of her poetic oeuvre, senior poet Sheena M. Roberts effortlessly moves between poetic styles, including contemporary free verse, rhyming poems...

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    Anthology

    … of an Adopted Name
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    This is an inner child screaming for help, the only way she knew how. Anthology of an Adopted Name is a collection of deeply personal rhyming poems written during and reflecting back on a childhood full of long-term domestic physical, emotional,...

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    The Wilding

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    In poems shot through with both wonder and woe, The Wilding celebrates the astonishing natural world and mourns the crises facing it. A clear-eyed, uncompromising, and cohesive first collection, it is a love letter and offering to the Earth, both...

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    Making a Mom

    Recipes and Questions for the New Parent
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    Being a mother is a whole lotta work! Work that often isn’t recognized; it’s a job from one extreme to the next that can be lonely and feel endless. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this pithy cook-book style book, I will share my...