Showing results for "Ever" in Poetry

A three-time Christy Award winner, Lynn Austin crafts rousing tales of hope and redemption. All She Ever Wanted stars Kathleen Seymour, a woman who seems to have it all, though she hides a dark family secret. To her horror, everything comes crashing down when she loses her job and her daughter is caught shoplifting. Desperate to regain control over her life, Kathleen returns to her estranged family to mend her severely broken relationships before it is too late.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, usually set in a time beyond living memory in which the extraordinary ancestors, in their dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants, the poet, and his audience in order to understand themselves as a people.

These poems pause for the spectacle - cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides - to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.

In her first book, happy-go-lucky YouTuber and Instagrammer Emma Conway explores motherhood in all its glory through the medium of hilarious and uplifting poetry. A mum to two young humans aged seven and nine, she revisits the days of no sleep, potty training and toddler tantrums; dives deep into first days of school, sibling bickering and watching your babies grow into little people; and writes frankly about life after having kids, embracing the mum bod and giving zero sods.

From acclaimed classicist Gregory Carlson, discover new insights into one of the greatest works of literature ever composed: Homer’s Odyssey. Why does this ancient epic poem continue to enthrall readers/listeners from all walks of life? You’re undoubtedly familiar with the Odyssey in some form. Now, this exciting audio course invites you to discover Homer’s text with new eyes.

Attending to one's mother while she succumbs to cancer is no easy feat as this poetry chapbook will attest to.

Textões, poemas e aforismos da maior voz da cena indie brasileira: Letícia Novaes, a Letrux. Nessa coletânea de textões (ressaca), poemas (quebra-mar) e aforismos (marolinhas), mergulhe na voz potente e afetiva de Letrux.

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

A micro-collection of original poetry, Amicably Ever After: The Year I Grew Up is produced in chronological order over a tumultuous 10-month period of grieving and healing. The poet attempts to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and heart; following an explosive relationship with an out-of-control narcissist whose personal demons threaten to take them both down. Narrated by the poet, Leah Ann Cevoli’ s poetry flows like a stream of consciousness fever dream.

The evolution of Taylor Mali the poet could be measured in the number of people his poetry has directly inspired to be teachers. Or the increasing cast of high school and college-age students who perform his words in forensic competitions. This is Taylor in his element: performing in front of live and writhing audiences demanding and receiving all the rough, raw, and authentic passion of Taylor Mali's poetry.

Michele Battle-Fisher's third volume of poetry, Now Whenever, and fourth volume, It Therefore, invite listeners to throw away conceptions they have of complex human relationships. With the author's wry and unflinching approach to untangling human complexities, the poems set up a nonlinear journey through immaturity, regret, self-discovery, passion, and, most importantly, love. She writes about her life with skin-picking disorder and bipolar disorder.

Whatever is a compilation of Michele Battle-Fisher's series of free-verse audiobooks, Then and Whatever and Borrowed Words and Fake Thoughts. Michele Battle-Fisher's debut volume of poetry, Then and Whatever, invites listeners to throw away conceptions you may have of simple, complex human relationships.

For some time I have thought about and even meditated on the work of poetry recent to the body of this interview series, as created by the excellent Roman Catholic Christian poet Philip Kolin, of Mississippi, USA. His recent collection is titled "Reading God's Handwriting: Poems," as published by Kaufmann Publishing.

Take this intimate 20-year journey of a young woman with a heart willing and open, fully embracing love as it fills her up, captures her flight, pierces her spirit, draws her under, and forms under her feet once again....

Her son is left behind in a store by her husband. Again, and again. What is Heidi Esther gonna do to fix her husband this time? She desperately tries to go back to the bliss of ignorance in her perfect suburban marriage. But, with a new bestie, her pastor, and an unexpected coworker at her side, she comes face-to-face with what she’s left behind. And what she discovers about herself and her life leave her awake, breathless, surrounded by Kleenex, and learning from trees.