Memoir Poetry

Prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of the best of Akiane's full-color paintings and poetry created from ages 4 to 10.

Award-winning author Felix Alexander returns with his third collection of love letters and poems, and the fourth installment in the Forever Poetic series. A saga about missed chances, unrequited love, longing and hope, and never leaving anything unsaid. The book begins with a series of love letters confessing a secret admiration that slowly evolves into unrequited love.

A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.

At the dawn of human civilization, a blind prophet foretold the coming of one who would transform American literature forever, thrilling millions with his prose and debauching thousands with the meltingly seductive rhythm of his poetry. Now he has arrived. His name is Neal Pollack, the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, and he walks among us.

Antes de ser um dos escritores mais queridos do Brasil, Pedro Salomão atuou como palhaço na Santa Casa de Misericórdia e no Hospital do Câncer, e viu de perto como é transformador o poder da alegria. Felicidade em copo d'água reúne alguns causos vividos pelo autor e que revelarão aos leitores o que muitos já sabem: nem sempre dá para se preparar para o inesperado, mas é possível encontrar o que mais procuramos onde menos imaginamos—até mesmo em um copo d'água.

Whether galloping wild in the Jamaican countryside; clinging to the dependable love of a mother and grandparents; celebrating the history, people, and language of Jamaica; or imparting a lifetime of wisdom, A Simple Smile’s narrative imagery draws listeners into Dorothy Mahfood’s inspiring life of tender confidence.

Pose Prose and Poems: My Thoughts Exactly was the first compilation of poetry and prose by Janna Hill and was copyrighted in 1998. The verses reflect the hopes, dreams, hurt, and disappointments found in the human condition.

Aus dem Briefwechsel zwischen Heinrich Heine und seinem Verleger Julius Campe.

Als der junge Verleger Julius Campe 1826 dem damals noch recht unbekannten Dichter Heine die Veröffentlichung der "Harzreise" anbietet, ist das der Beginn einer lebenslangen "Literarischen Ehe", die von inniger Zuneigung, aber ebenso von heftigen Kämpfen um Honorare, Manuskriptlieferungszeiten und die Zensurfrage geprägt war.

I Had A Brother Once is a brilliant, genre-defying work - both memoir and epic poem - about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss. Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp.

Short Stuff is a compilation of both narrative and poetic forms. I have always loved writing, but it took some jolts from my life journey to lead to more introspection and more freedom to hone these writings into some publishable form.

“I was twelve when they locked me away. They didn’t give me therapy though. They gave me trauma.” Broken Doll is a brutally honest collection of poetry and artwork created from inside the walls of psychiatric institutions. Written by Michelle, a survivor who spent her entire adolescence sectioned in mental health units, this book lays bare the pain, confusion, and silent fury of growing up in a broken system. Through raw, emotionally charged poems and haunting original artwork, Michelle documents years of systemic abuse, isolation, and resistance.

An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor.

Meeting her muse in the midst of the pandemic, award-winning author Denise Bossarte inspires others through her vulnerability and courage in revealing the darkness of childhood sexual abuse and the light of a healing out of the darkness.

Barbie Robinson is a Canberra, Australia-based arts advocate, artist, and poet whose practice encompasses writing, photography, design, event management, radio presentation/production, and arts marketing. That Looks on Tempests: Thoughts on the Nature of Love is her third solo work of poetry and the first to be published by For Pity Sake. The work is highly personal, created as part of Barbie’s "Gratitude Project" after a life-saving stem-cell transplant.

Crystal Life Shining Bright is another work of spoken words written by S.L. Worthen A.A.S. with current life content that starts with a true look into the effects of crystals on life as its opening topic. It begins with a spin that makes you stop and think again. The power of crystals was on the earth before man.

As the oldest of five siblings he has traveled the United States to just about every state. Writing and music are his passions. However, his most prized accomplishment is that of his four year old daughter. He will tell you that he is just a normal guy with a very cool job. It allows him extra time with his daughter and such other things he may be interested in. So come dive into his world and witness original works that will leave your jaws dropped open to the floor with the way he expresses Truth.

This interview with Marie Howe, American poet and teacher, is the first of a series of three different interviews with American poets. Note some poems by Marie from her new book The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, are included in the Addendum to the interview - by permission of the poet, and of W.W. Norton publisher. Marie writes poetry of religious and spiritual kind, and other works most lovely and engaged in what one critic called the metaphysical.

Primal desires of human beings drive us to imagine and create. Economic barriers are nonexistent with the creative process. Do not stifle the pioneer attitude. In all fields, it is important to express one's ideas as an individual. The healthy growth of a civilization depends on a society that supports unlimited free expression to explore all avenues of invention. Ideas blossom when a community encourages independent and collaborative research and education.

What if the dreaded world of Alzheimer's was also a world of emotional discovery? Eugenia Zukerman's poetry and simple prose, both heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational, ushers the listener into her world as she unflinchingly examines familial loyalties, moments from her past and present, and the need to face an uncertain future due to the diagnosis of a condition that she truly hopes "will remain unnamed."

A child born into a dysfunctional family is trying to find out how she fits into the world, by watching the mistakes of others; she has to learn to love the skin she is in, while not letting her family define who she is capable of becoming. This poetry will pierce your soul and the images will remain with you for years to come. This book was written to help all those who feel they've been left behind. There is hope.