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"Brendan Constantine is a poet's poet. He sees life through a unique prism: at once lucid, elegant, and deeply humanistic." -- Julia Cameron, The Artist's WayHeartbreaking and hilarious poems reaffirming our youngest conclusions about the world. Known for his dreamy abstraction and the emotional ferocity on the page and on the stage, this is a birthday card from the phenomenal world to our wildest selves. No approach to writing (odes, codes, lectures, letters, tests and attendance sheets) is left unexploited as a means to poetry. This is his second collection.

A step-by-step award-winning collection of Pantomimery moves for adults. Acclaimed most sea-travelled and modern pantomime master, Dick Richards, releases his first full-length collection of the pantomimery moves that made him famous. Once a staple as a featured performer on various cruise ships the now-unemployed Dick Richards releases his most secret and creative pantomime moves in the worlds greatest book of new mime for adults.

Buckle up for a wild and hilarious ride through America's youth culture with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's celebrated debut volume. In this collection, Aptowicz fearlessly tackles an array of idiosyncratic topics, from love and heartbreak to thieving suburban punks. Her writing is quirky, funny, and sprinkled with subtle social commentary that keeps readers engaged from start to finish.With each poem, you'll find yourself laughing, nodding in agreement, and reflecting on the quirks of life. Experience the unique blend of humor and insight in Aptowicz's writing.Get ready for the hilarious and thought-provoking journey that is Dear Future Boyfriend.

Bring Down the Chandeliers, where the exploration of trauma, body, and faith intertwines with an insightful inquiry into forgiveness.These poems go beyond the experience of sexual assault survivors; they speak to the universal struggle of forgiving oneself and others.Whether you've faced personal hardships or are navigating the aftermath of life's challenges, this collection is a poignant reminder that healing is possible.Immerse yourself in these poignant verses, where each word carries the potential to heal and uplift your soul, making Bring Down the Chandeliersa must-have addition to your reading list.

From the Poet Laureate of San Jose, these poems salvage memories from the wreckage of the Challenger disaster, drink shots with the poltergeist haunting the local dive bar, and resurrect the wisdom in the harsh words of departed lovers.In his debut poetry collection, Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse, David Perez takes snapshots of a world under collapse to show us the parts worth saving. His images activate a new way of seeing. The mundane is no longer insignificant- the nightmare no longer insufferable. At times, Perez is terse and pragmatic. Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse beckons us into dark corners in ways that let our eyes adjust, revealing a splendor we would have otherwise surely missed.

In her fourth collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz uses her youth as muse. Whether ruminating on the trials and tribulations of life in the single digits ("My Elementary School Confessions"), exposing her unapologetic high school geekiness ("The Secret Language of Nerds") and exalting all the melodramatic yet sincere love verses she ultimately penned in vain ("On Reading Old Unrequited Love Poems"), this plump collection commiserates and celebrates all the wonder, terror, banality and comedy that is the long journey to adulthood. ¿ her previous Write Bloody book, Everything is Everything, 978-0-9842515 was reviewed widely

Jon Sands is a high-stakes, honest poet of wild range. Sands possesses the remarkable ability to celebrate just as deeply as he mourns & whichever city he moves through in his poems ... one can be certain that there will be some singing. That's just what these poems do. - Aracelis Girmay, authorSands scours buses in Queens, faceless bullets, and a city full of "back talk" to find a place where we can all "fall madly in Jon," and we do. Always fresh, The New Clean is a poetics of triumph - Michael Cirelli, Executive Director of Urban Word-NYC Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, he's packed us in his suitcase. This book welcomes those beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.

Experience a powerful and insightful examination of life in America through Amulet, shedding light on the unique experiences of Filipino Americans and individuals of Asian descent. With grace and energy, Bayani's words flow effortlessly, encouraging deep reflection. For a decade, he has honed an arsenal of verses, carefully crafted and brimming with humor and political resonance. This book is a rare gem, unearthing the essence of what it truly means to be an American, an artist, and a Filipino. Diving into the heart of identity and culture, Bayani's words leave an indelible mark on your soul and inspire you to embrace your heritage with pride. Grab a copy now and join the journey of self-discovery and connection that awaits within these pages.

Over The Anvi We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild dreams. These are memories of a life, captured through the blue green filter of the bayou. Mojgani's latest poems are tinged with the sound of crickets spying on us in the darkness. They move forward honestly, brutally and sweetly. The reader will be led into briar patches as well as the moonlight just on the other side.

These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed "indie" rapper, Idris Goodwin. A rhythmic blend of biting wit and break-beat poetry, Goodwin's prose pulses with purpose. Remixing broken dreams and distorted legacies, Goodwin cross-fades past and present, personal and political: Motown's last vinyl factory juxtaposes against Bronx rap legends battling in open-air arenas; Chicago's Public School system contrasts against Santa Fe's tourism industry; an Egyptian child drowns in the Dead Sea as Nat Turner sprints across Death Valley. Diverse in scope and wickedly satirical, Goodwin's poetic essays sample race, class, and culture, transcending the page with hip-hop musicality. These Are The Breaks is the literary mixtape of our cacophonous times.

In her second collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz serves up a hilarious and uncompromising autobiographical bender about her first job out of college: writing and editing for porn. Whether denouncing the corporate world ("To Whom It May Concern") before lustily joining it ("New Millennial Bad Ass"), or sweetly celebrating love in the face of smut ("Let's Make Out!"), Aptowicz dramatizes the hopes, humor and ambitions of a young poet's first steps into a very surreal "real world."

Brian S. Ellis' second book, Yesterday Won't Goodbye, begins with birth and then travels exercising the meaning of origin and the experience of time.Through his wild origins of fresh language and the kind of punk rock Americana that sings with open arms in powerful poetic form, the poems exist to themselves but also carry others within each.Praise"...Ellis expertly shifts between free verse poetry and creative non-fiction, consistently producing work that is captivating and original, all while having one of the most dynamic, affective, and unapologetically raw live performances anywhere."-Jared Paul"Brian Stephen Ellis is borne of ... gutter punk. Marmalade. Unwashable stain. His poems speak with an unbridled urgency yet come to you patient, coy, brimming with wisdom-and acutely aware of their own necessity. Read these poems. You've never been so alive."-Jeanann Verlee

Writing that flows like a Tennessee Williams stage play, from haiku-size poems giving the reader a huge beauty-affirming smile to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into their backstage seat.C.R. Avery's charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, will knock out any reader that opens this musical gem of literature. A clear glimpse into a motel 50 miles out of town, an articulate, descriptive window into the life of a modern troubadour and the courage of a young father trying to keep the highway of diamonds shining while singing the song of innocence.

"It is vital for educators to discover new ways to get students wanting to read and write poetry. These exercises are not intimidating, they are the equivalent of having a really rad English teacher who wears tweed suits and sports "read more" knuckle tattoos." -Rachel McKibbens, "Pink Elephants""This collection provides teachers with a scaffolding for their lessons by offering questions, examples, and writing prompts. This will be a valuable asset in the classrooms of new and veteran teachers alike." -Molly Meacham, teacherHello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we've heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom.

An amazing collection of new Bible based activities for the whole family to enjoy on Family Fun Night. What is family fun night? A great way to get off your phones and get creative with your family in a fresh and hilarious way.

In Mindy Nettifee's second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she's comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience of womanhood, the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant, bitingly funny, and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It calls us to connect to our humanity, to celebrate its flaws, and then to demand more of it, in every well crafted line.Praise"Mindy Nettifee's Rise of The Trust Fall is an intimate cartography of the poet that is at once lush with emotion and sharp with a bright, raw edge. This beautiful collection of poems will make you rise, rise up." - PANK Magazine"Mindy Nettifee poems inspire and fulfill. Rise of the Trust Fall has become a necessary book for me." - Beau Sia, Def Poetry Jam On Broadway"Mindy Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker." - Poetic Diversity

After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first and then screaming. "Ceremony for the Choking Ghost" contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory, and, of course, poems about love. Half poetry, half exorcism, her book calls to all of our ghosts.

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty yet sincere perspective on the dichotomy of living; pain coupled with joy. This collection delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder's personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms.Praise"Sierra DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can have, a unique voice. That voice exploded onto the national spoken word scene, moving her rapidly up the ranks as one of the most exciting performance poets working today. Sierra uses subtlety and tension the way photographers use angle. She will eat your heart with a spoon."- Karen Finnyfrock"...violently passionate and sweet, deftly moving between the two modes."- The Lamron, SUNY Geneseo"...intensely personal."- Huffington Post

In her fifth collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz polishes her obsessions until they gleam. Whether she is exhuming the bizarre ("Cryptozoology" and "A Short History of Unusual Fish"), exorcising her demons ("Hog Butcher of Workshop Table" and "On Why I Shouldn't Read Books"), or celebrating the uncelebrated oddballs of the world ("Little Heard True Stories of Benjamin Franklin" and "Crack Squirrels"), Aptowicz's poetry sings and singes. Everything is Everything illuminates the dark corners of the curiosity cabinet, shining the light on everything that is utterly strange, wonderfully absurd and 100% true.Praise"hilariously spunky... no-nonsense poetry."-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times "Sometimes you plod through the day, bumping into people, tripping over your own feet. But then there are those remarkable days when you move through the world as stealthly as ninja. The latter is how the poems move in this book. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz spits in her hands, grabs the sledgehammer, swings it hard, and rings that bell in poem after poem after poem. Everything is Everything is a winning collection chock full of swift, honest, smart, funny, and even tender poems that go up to 11."-Jennifer Knox, author of Drunk by Noon "Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz admits it herself-she's "a fool for the poetry." And I take her at her word. In the Tarot, the fool is wise and exuberant, mystical, clever, tuned into the world. In Everything is Everything, Aptowicz is indeed the divine fool, traveling her United States of Poetry and beyond. She is a poet of Americana-dead presidents (both the leaders and the money), ambitions big and small, ancient history trivia and pop culture, animals, children, impersonators and authenticity. Aptowicz's poems are animated, brimming with celebration. Everything is Everything is a stunning and dazzling book."-Denise Duhamel, author of Ka-Ching!

"This gloriously bellowed lyrical and linguistic chaos, this "mess of crossed wires and mixed seagulls," willmake your status quo ache, your perceptions implode,your horizons widen and shatter. Robbie Q. writes ustoward a primal need, the need to go absolutely insanewith the possibilities of noun, verb and participles ofthe dangled variety. This is not spoken word on thepage... this is spoken scream headed directly for thatcorner of your head you try to hide."+ PATRICIA SMITH, AUTHOR OF BLOOD

Ryler Dustin's Heavy Lead Birdsong is a collection of love poems-an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age. Inspired by science and religion, grounded in subtle humor, these poems transcend modern political sorrows to celebrate the kind of human spirit that can save us.

This book contains poetry from a team of wildly unique, talented and award-winning authors who have been touring the world for years.Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Buddy Wakefield, Robbie Q, Sonya Renee, Andrea Gibson, and Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz have united. Charging the hearts of America with gut-splitting, lust wrangling, socially active verse.

"Brian Ellis' poems make me want to set fire to my house and run out of the flaming door, through the streets, the fields, up the buildings and across the moon."-Anis Mojgani, author"...every turn and sudden stop is a satisfying lurch in the direction of growing up."- Simone Beaubien, The Boston Poetry SlamHis words shiver, babble, rant and constantly threaten to fall apart under the weight of their own gravity. Ellis' colorful voice is a strong addition to the Boston spoken word tradition. A second-hand microscope examining the fuzzy science of survival, Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom is a manic and shimmering author at his creative zenith. Filled with tangentially familiar characters-family misremembered, or friends still to be met-all delivered with deft eloquence, frank eye for unlikely detail, and inescapable sense of punk nostalgia.

Illustrated poems to seduce and destroy. The Last American Valentine is a unique anthology of non-sappy love poetry and flash fiction.Poet Laureates, rock musicians, actors, famed prose writers and a few talented American barfly's have been handpicked, hunted down and crammed together with an artist the world has never met. Contributor's Include:MICHAEL MCCLUREJACK HIRSCHMANMINDY NETTIFEERICHARD SWIFTNATHAN WILLET (cold war kids)RICK LUPERTBRENDAN CONSTANTINEBEAU SIAAGNETA FALKMICHAEL ROBERTSMICHAEL C FORDBUDDY WAKEFIELDAMBER TAMBLYNJOHN GARDINERCRISTIN OKEEFE APTOWICZSHAPPY SEASHOLTZROGER BONAIR AGARDLYNNE PROCOPEVICTOR INFANTEDERRICK BROWNPraise"Poems of romantic power and humor...A gorgeously successful union."-OC Weekly

I Love You Is Back sends boldly a cupid's arrow into the heart of young lovers.This book is the second collection of work from internationally celebrated poet, Derrick Brown. Spanning 2004-2006, It includes such popular works such as 'The Victory Explosions," "All Distortion, All the Time," "St. Marks," and "The Last Poem about Anne Sexton."

Born In The Year Of The Butterfly Knife is the award winning modern American prose and poetry collection by famed Nashville author Derrick Brown. Mr. Brown has performed works from herein on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and as the opening act for rock bands such as Cold War Kids and The White Stripes. It contains 204 pages of work spanning 1994-2004. Derrick Brown's large cult following has sent him on tours through twelve countries. He continues to tour to this day.