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Renia White is a first-time author. Her debut collection, Casual Conversation, was chosen by Aracelis Girmay as a Blessing the Boats Selection. Named in honor of Lucille Clifton’s National Book Award-winning collection, Blessing the Boats Selections spotlight new poetry collections by women poets of color. Previous Blessing the Boats Selections include Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes and Year of the Dog by Deborah Paredez.

Soul Speaking is a collection of emotional poetry straight from the soul. Every human emotion from love to hate, joy to grief, celebrating newfound friendships to healing from toxic people, is captured in these free verse poems. Whether these words haunt you or heal you, their beauty, depth, and power will certainly never leave you.

Life Lessons in the Key of Life can be summarized by the following: It takes all kinds of people to make a world. The good, bad, and ugly consequences one goes through and deals with on a daily basis.

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.

Cada poeta y cada lector entienden la poesía a su manera particular, y pretender definirla es inevitablemente entrar en discusiones con la gente amable que lee poesía. Aunque sería difícil ponernos de acuerdo, todos compartimos el amor a las palabras, a la sencilla belleza que logran cuando se cuidan, y quizás también al deseo de penetrar la realidad cotidiana, de ver la esencia que hay detrás.

The soldier in the army of Jesus Christ clings to all he’s worth to his master. He knows darkness and he knows failure well. Weakness is his enemy. God turns weakness into strength. Our Lord submitted to abuse and captivity, even to the point of death, to set his captive people free. Seeds of evil bear a bitter fruit.

Ugly Sisterhood The Forbidden Truth is a poem that details a plea from one sister to another to rally together instead of living as rivals.

Journey (Almost) to the Waterfall is the latest collection of poems, plus two short nonfiction essays by Maggie Hess. It involves nature, treacherous hikes, thyme filled meadows, and a deep gratitude for human community. These happen to be some of Hess's best works.

William Wordsworth composed hundreds of sonnets, among which are some of his best-known poems. The sonnet form particularly suited Wordsworth, enabling the poet to encapsulate the beauties of mundane life in language of appealing directness and simplicity. This recording contains 122 poems, ranging across many decades of Wordsworth’s writing career.

In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."

Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning. Vivid and approachable, the work gathered here invites listeners to rediscover commonplace wonders and find new beauty in topics ranging from moss to mortality.

America's first poet, Anne Bradstreet, wrote poems regularly for her family's private enjoyment. But in 1647, unbeknownst to Anne, her brother-in-law set sail for England with a manuscript of her poetry. Upon his return, he presented her book to her: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. Anne was thoroughly embarrassed but also pleased. Subsequent generations have valued her gifts as a poet as well, and her poetry remains in print to this day.

Written with vivid prose, a bit of lyrical poetry, and the mystical essence of works by Rumi and Hafiz, this blog-to-audiobook story illustrates the beauty of letting go of the old to usher in the new.

Francesco Petrarch’s Canzoniere (translated in English as ‘Scattered Rhymes’) is a collection of 14th century poems famed for their exploration of love, grief, spirituality and nature. Peter Thornton's accessible new translation brings Petrarch to the 21st century in direct, rhymed, English verse - for academics and poetry enthusiasts alike.

Solo de amor es una antología de poemas de amor que además incluye un libro nuevo con el mismo título.

Poems inspired by bible study, along with a few personal poems written for new family and friends. All poems were written through the inspiration of the holy spirit, which helps us remember we’re in the same hands of Jesus that made Earth, and there's nothing that Jesus can’t handle.

Clarksdale, Mississippi, “The Home of the Blues,” sits just 60 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. Ironically, although Clarksdale has a history tied to less than Christian ideals, it’s where many others and I got our Christian roots or upbringing. Just like the blues were played all over the place, so were the gospel songs that I helped sing in the youth church choir.

Three Houses is a narrative in verse documenting the ecstasies, agonies, and everydays of a phoenix rising from the ashes of their troubled pasts.

Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on his journey back to Ithica. To get there he must deceive a giant Cyclops, face Poseidon’s wrath, escape cannibalism, defeat the witch-goddess Circe, skirt the land of the Sirens, sail between a six-headed monster and a raging whirlpool, and escape captivity on the island of Calypso. But perhaps his biggest threat is his prolonged absence from home, as 108 suitors are vying for his wife’s hand in marriage.

El escudo de Heracles es un fragmento de épica griega. El tema del episodio es la expedición de Heracles y Yolao contra el hijo de Ares llamado Cicno, quien había desafiado a Heracles a un combate cuando este pasaba cerca de Itono (Tesalia).

Daddy's Roaming Wild Thing is a poem about a courageous misfit receiving life advice from her passed on father in spirit.

This audiobook contains poems about places, problems, and people that the author has encountered over his 70 plus years of life. They are reflections on relationships and struggles, as well as on the natural and built-in environment where we live.

Sometimes in your life, you meet someone special that changes everything you thought you knew about love. They may be younger or older from different religions or races. It does not matter how, why, or when. They bring a smile to your face when you had none before lighting up the darkness that you're living in. Your heart will race and your mind opens up to the distinct possibilities of anything you may have wished for or dreamed of.

Blood Aside I Take It Personal is a poem that details the trials and tribulations a person experiences while trying to start over in life after the betrayal of friends and family.

Adult Crybaby is a poem about the pointlessness of stress and worry in your adult life.

A keen awareness of this present moment, and real gratitude for it, will bring you ever closer to the inner joy you long for. In Life's a Mango, Jen Compton applies universal ideas to remind us that there's always a kinder way of dealing with life's situations.

Through prose and poetry, A World Diverse is a personal account of David Edmond’s 34 plus year career in the Royal Canadian Air Force. His inspiration to pick up the pen came after the death of his wife due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. The opportunity to serve across Canada exposed him to a variety of personalities, and the chance to build strong friendships.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Most Offensive Love Poem That You'll Ever Read to hear a love poem.

Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials.

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.