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  My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

  aja monet

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  I am 27 and have never killed a man 
  but I know the face of death as if heirloom 
  my country memorizes murder as lullaby 
  from "For Fahd" 
    
  Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy. 
    
  Praise for Aja Monet: 
    
  "[Monet] is the true definition of an artist." —Harry Belafonte 
    
  "In Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special and knew immediately that Aja Monet was one of the Ones who will mark the sound of the ages. She brings depth of voice to the voiceless, and through her we sing a powerful song." —Carrie Mae Weems 
    
  Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title. 
    
  This audio edition includes FLORIDA WATER: POEMS 
    
  Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, lover, and community organizer. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with the political, as they confront the state's fractured history of racial prejudice, marooned peoples, and the unruly forces of nature. In Florida Water, each poem is an artifact and offering from her time spent wading through the rising tides of climate change, heartbreak, and systemic violence. With each line, monet immerses us deeper into the water, where the currents of memory, struggle, and survival pull us toward both despair and hope.

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  Swansdown

  Donald Platt

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  In SWANSDOWN, the poet Donald Platt makes a study of lifeís inevitable transitions, from loveís astonishing evolutions, to aging and its attendant losses. With the poem "Cloud Study" Platt brings his own mortality into view. Returning to a painting by Constable, he considers his own perspective, sitting by the Liffey, tending an injured knee. Young mothers, lovers, and runners pass, reminding the poet of who he once was and how quickly life, like weather, shifts. "Two minutes later, // The clouds would have taken on a different cast of light and shape / just like the thunderheads / now piling up above the Liffey."Platt advises: "To approach old age, one needs a new harsher style." And yet these poems are proof of the softness that may follow life's harshest reckonings, like the wisps of hair on his beloved brother's head as he lies dying, "fine / as milkweed silk. / His head a split / dried pod whose seeds / wind will scatter." The poems of Swansdown point us to a "larger landscape," they are the clouds "that scud across the blue escutcheon of sky. . . Sun's blazon through rain rampant.""One of the finest American poets working today," writes poet and editor Adrian Matejka, "A writer of unparalleled lyric and formal integrity." It is indeed these qualities that gird Platt for this masterful eighth collection.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Death - 12...

  Alfred Tennyson, Rainer Maria...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Death - An Introduction 
  2 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  3 - Death by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  4 - Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu 
  6 - After Death by Fanny Parnell 
  7 - Death by John Clare 
  8 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson 
  9 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  10 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  11 - I Would Fain Die a Dry Death by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  12 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  Little Lucy Ladybug - Where Are...

  Angie Ford-Green, Judy Cunningham

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  This delightful story with original watercolor illustrations is about a little ladybug who has a BIG problem. Little Lucy has no spots. All of her friends have lots. Feeling different, Little Lucy is worried there my be something wrong with her, and she's is a BIG hurry to get her spots. Follow this curious, persistent little ladybug while she searches for her spots, and learns important lessons about having hope and being patient.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Edna St Vincent Millay, Antonio...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Travel - An Introduction 
  2 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  4 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth 
  6 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  7 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  8 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 
  9 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - I Write of That Journey by Mirabai 
  11 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 
  12 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman 
  13 - The Journey by Tagore

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  Treasure

  Jemima Foxtrot

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  "religion's been cruel to people like usthe darkwood sluts      the good time girlsbut god as my witnesssome of us           we're just trying to wrangle our powerback from the species that took it"
  Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective. Foxtrot investigates shimmering sexualities, the economies of desire, the theft of childhood and pathways towards reclaiming it. Her language is lush: intimate, intricate, full of fertile earth's possibility. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is—the joy—how to feed it into the soil of our lives.
  "Treasure is an aptly chosen title for this collection, both as a noun (that quantity of precious ore dug from the stuff of experience) and as a verb (the imperative to seek out, sing, and cherish joy through the sharing of it). Foxtrot is a savvy, sometimes savage, sensualist; her poetic speakers alert to injustice, but alive to pleasure in every way that counts. These are superbly tactile poems, poems of being-in-the-body, and being-in-the-world; they are full of wit, vigour and feminist jouissance. These are also formally exciting poems, poems that showcase a beautifully bold and oddly tender lyric defiance." Fran Lock, Hyena, T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist

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