Love and Other Small Wars reminds us that when you come back from combat usually the most fatal of wounds are not visible. Riley’s debut collection is an arsenal of deeply personal poems that embody an intensity that is truly impressive yet their hands are tender. She enlists you. She gives you camouflage &amp; a pair of boots so you can stay the course through the minefield of her heart. You will track the lovely flow of her soft yet fierce voice through a jungle of powerful imagery on womanhood, relationships, family, grief, sexuality &amp; love, amidst other matters. Battles with the heart aren’t easily won but Riley hits every mark. You’ll be relieved that you’re on the same side. Much like war, you’ll come back from this book changed.

Love and Other Small Wars

Literature & Fiction

Riley, Donna-Marie

Poetry

Words Dance Publishing

Literary Sexts is a modern day anthology of short love poems with subtle erotic undertones edited by Amanda Oaks &amp; Caitlyn Siehl. Hovering around 50 contributors &amp; 124 poems, this book reads is like one long &amp; very intense conversation between two lovers. It’s absolutely breathtaking. These are poems that you would text to your lover. Poems that you would slip into a back pocket, suitcase, wallet or purse on the sly. Poems that you would write on slips of paper &amp; stick under your crush’s windshield wiper. Poems that you would write on a Post-it note &amp; leave on the bathroom mirror. Treat yourself, a crush or a lover with this lush gift!

Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

Oaks, Amanda

This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn there digging. When you get close enough, she’ll lean in &amp; whisper, Baby, buried things will surface no matter what, get to them before they get to you first. Her unbounded love will propel you to pick up a shovel &amp; help— even though the only thing you want to do is kiss her lips, kiss her hands, kiss every one of her stretch marks &amp; the fire that is raging in pit of her stomach. She’ll see your eyes made of devour &amp; sadness, she’ll hug you &amp; say, Baby, if you eat me alive, I will cut my way out of your stomach. Don’t let this be your funeral. Teach yourself to navigate the wound.

What We Buried

Siehl, Caitlyn

AN EXCERPT FROM THE FATWARD BY THE AUTHOR: I was not born for beige, my loves. And neither were you. My body intends to be seen. My body intends to shine. My fat is not quiet. My fat sparkles. That’s what you’re holding, dear one. You’re holding SparkleFat. You’re holding a loud, unapologetic, intentional book of poetry about my body, about your body, about fat bodies and how they move through the world in every bit of their flash and spark and burst. Some of the poems are painful, some are raucous celebrations, some are reminders and love letters and quiet gifts back to the vessel that has traveled me so gracefully – some are a hymnal of yes, but all of them sparkle. All of them don’t mind if you look – really. They built their own house of intention, and they draped that shit in lime green sequins. All of them intend to be seen. All of them have no more fucks to give about a world that wants them to be quiet.

SparkleFat

May, Melissa

From the very first page Shaking the Trees meets you at the edge of the forest, extends a limb &amp; seduces you into taking a walk through the dark &amp; light of connection. Suddenly, like a gunshot in the very-near distance, you find yourself traipsing though a full-blown love story that you can't find your way out of because the story is actually the landscape underneath your feet. It's okay though, you won't get lost– you won't go hungry. Azra shakes every tree along the way so their fruit blankets the ground before you. She picks up pieces &amp; hands them to you but not before she shows you how she can love you so gently it will feel like she's unpeeling you carefully from yourself. She tells you that it isn't about the bite but the warm juice that slips from the lips down chin. She holds your hand when you're trudging through the messier parts, shoes getting stuck in the muck of it all, but you'll keep going with the pulp of the fruit still stuck in-between your teeth, the juice will dry in the crooks of your elbows &amp; in the lines on your palms. You'll taste bittersweet for days.

Shaking the Trees

Tabassum, Azra

“Into the Belly of the Beast we crawl with Ashe as our guide; into the dark visceral spaces where love, lust, descent and desire work their transformative magic and we find ourselves utterly altered in the reading. A truly gifted poet and truth-spiller, Ashe’s metaphors create images within images, leading us to question the subjective truths, both shared and hidden, in personal relationship – to the other, and to oneself. Unflinching in her approach, her poetry gives voice to that which most struggle to admit – even if only to themselves. And as such, Belly of the Beast is a work of startling courage and rich depth – a darkly delicious pleasure.” – Amy Palko

Belly of the Beast

Vernon, Ashe

This is an invitation to poem your heart out! Part poetry prompt book, part anthology of the best poems written during the 2014 April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge on the Poetic Asides blog, & part workbook, let both, the prompt & poem, inspire you to create your own poetic masterpieces. Maybe you participated in April & want to document your efforts during the month. Maybe you’re starting now, like so many before you, with just a prompt, an example poem, & an invitation to poem your heart out! You’re encouraged—heck, dared—to write your own poems inside of this book!

Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own

Reference

Brewer, Robert Lee

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This is the highly anticipated second volume of Literary Sexts! After over 1,000 copies of Literary Sexts Volume 1 being sold, we are super-excited to bring you a second volume! Literary Sexts is an annual modern day anthology of short love &amp; sexy poems edited by Amanda Oaks &amp; Caitlyn Siehl. These are poems that you would text to your lover. Poems that you would slip into a back pocket, suitcase, wallet or purse on the sly. Poems that you would write on slips of paper &amp; stick under your crush’s windshield wiper or pillow. Poems that you would write on a Post-it note &amp; leave on the bathroom mirror. Poems that you would whisper into your lover’s ear. Hovering around 40 contributors &amp; 130 poems, this book reads is like one long &amp; very intense conversation between two lovers. It’s absolutely breathtaking.

Literary Sexts 2: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

Chloe is brave and raw, adolescence mixed with salt. These poems are about how hungry we’ve been, how foolish, how lonely. Chloe is not quite girl nor woman, full of awkward bravery. Kristina is an electric voice that pulls Chloe apart page after page, her heartbreaks, her too many drinks, her romantic experiences of pleasure and pain. Chloe and Kristina make a perfect team to form an anthem for girls everywhere, an anthem that reassures us we deserve to take up space. Indeed, when I met Chloe, I too thought “This is the closest I’ve been to anybody in months.” -- Meggie Royer, Author of Survival Songs and Healing Old Wounds with New Stitches

Chloe

Haynes, Kristina

“It's a strange thing when the highest praise you can offer for someone's work is, "I wish this didn't exist," but that was the refrain that echoed in my head after I read Meggie Royer's third book.  As fans of her work know, Meggie takes the universal and makes it personal. With The No You Never Listened To, she takes the personal and makes it universal. As a sexual assault survivor, Meggie is well-acquainted with trauma: the aftermath, the guilt, the anger. She has never shied away from taking Hemingway's advice - write hard and clear about what hurts - and that strength has never been more of an asset than with this body of work.  The No You Never Listened To is the book you will wish you'd had when trauma climbed into your bed. It is the book you will give to friends who are dragged from their "before" into a dark and terrifying "after". And yes, it is the book you will wish didn't exist.  But it is also the one that will remind you, in your darkest moments, where the blame really belongs. It will remind you that your memory will not always be an enemy. And it will remind you that none of us have ever been alone in this.” - Claire Biggs, To Write Love on Her Arms Editor / Writer -------- “Nietzsche once warned us to be careful gazing into the abyss, that we run the risk of staring so long that the void consumes us. The poems in this book were born of the abyss, of conflict & trauma & survival. And through these poems, Meggie Royer stares - hard, unflinching, courageous - and instead of gazing back, the abyss looks away.” - William James, Drunk In A Midnight Choir editor & author of rebel hearts & restless ghosts -------- “The No You Never Listened To educates those who don't understand the aftermath of sexual assault, encourages survivors of similar trauma, and empowers everyone who reads it. This collection of poetry is absolutely breathtaking due to Meggie Royer's beautiful, rhythmic writing style combined with the powerful messages conveyed through each of her poems. The categories in which the poems are organized take the reader through her different stages of emotions – beginning with her initial shock, denial, and anger and ending with her journey toward healing and forgiveness – and I was completely swept away from the start. In a culture where "victim-blaming" is far too common, Royer's articulation of passion and brutal honesty is exactly what society needs to wake up and improve how it views survivors of sexual assault.” – Briana Bailey, Literary & Managing Editor at Germ Magazine -------- “Meggie Royer's poetry is a bittersweet reading of pain shared. Royer vividly paints on the page what we as a culture often give up on as unspeakable. Her poetry comforts and disturbs as all great art should.” – Luis Silva, Editor of Electric Cereal

The No You Never Listened To

Royer, Meggie

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