Notes & Prayers: poetry & prose by Furqan Mohamed

15 Ways to Stay Alive

Damaged hearts, scattered desires, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and move in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb’s most modern selection of startling new works that discover survival after own or communal failures and the renewal that follows. no matter if she’s writing approximately unanticipated results (“After the halfway trip Collapsed”), her mother’s passing (“Somewhere, Over”), or absurd occasions (“Preoccupation”), Gottlieb’s deeply own insights into the complicated parts the place lifestyles and modern tradition collide provide readers a different, thought-provoking standpoint.

Mercurial

Mercurial is the most recent selection of poems from Allison Joseph: regularly obtainable, musical, filled with well-merited knowledge, sass, and braveness. Joseph writes approximately daily events in deft, heartfelt poems that span the spectrum of poetic ambition–free verse narrative, brief lyrics, conventional rhyming varieties and topical meditations.

The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New

Granddaughters, asters, Medea brownies, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the excessive bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries via the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman and the Japonica Bushelful Bountiful girl: you'll by no means mistake a Colleen Thibaudeau wordscape for the other.

My Poetic Journey

Come and take a journey on My Poetic trip. This trip will encourage you, inspire you, and produce gentle to the adventure you're now touring. it isn't approximately the way you commence, it truly is approximately the way you end. end powerful! My Poetic trip brings wish to the hopeless, gentle to darkness, or even laughter in soreness.