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  Accidents After Happening - Poems

  Robert Priest

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  “One of the most imaginatively inventive poets in the country.” — Pacific Rim Review of Books
  		 
  The accidents of Priest’s collection are definitely not all “happy.” They move through a full range of human emotions: dread, grief, anger, ecstasy, lust and empathy. Plus some magic levity. This is poetry you will want to recite aloud: lyrical love poems, sonnets, satires, ghazals, curses, and bitter invective. These are not snobby poems — they want and welcome readers who love euphony, who enjoy tasteful eroticism, who rage at injustice. People who grieve and gush — smart people who think critically and form their own opinions. And for those with a taste for “brevity forever.” Accidents After Happening also contains a whole new catalog of Priest’s aphorisms, proverbs, maxims, and sayings — the kind of work that recently prompted Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood to take to Twitter and praise Priest’s “snappy funny spot-on micro poems — plus much more.”
  		 
  Celebrated as “the people's poet,” Priest’s words have been debated in the Ontario legislature, posted in the Transit system, quoted in the Farmer's Almanac, embedded in cement, sung on Sesame Street, and turned into two hit songs: “Song Instead of a Kiss,” a number one hit for Alannah Myles, and the recent top ten hit by Indigenous balladeer Julian Taylor “Seeds (They Tried to Bury Us).”

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  Be

  Adrian Cox-Settles

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  Be is a collection of poems that delve into the intimate feelings of a young woman who didn’t see light at the end of the tunnel yet felt the light in her heart growing up in a dysfunctional family and community. The poems are raw. They describe a myriad of internal and external struggles the author endured that helped to shape the woman she is today. The poems speak of survival and success as the reader is encouraged to thrive in the face of adversity. The reader experiences the author’s vulnerabilities and the depths of her feelings as her sentiment unfolds on the pages—"There is light at the end of the tunnel, even if I can’t see it.” Be is a work of trials and triumphs. “Be” inspired.

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  Septet for the Luminous Ones

  fahima ife

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  Continuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, Septet for the Luminous Ones imagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and what it sounds like ever after—breathless, diaspora calling. Similar to the incidents in Maroon Choreography, what resounds in these poems is an ecstatic love song of the Caribbean Americas, of the main lands and islands, shaped and reshaped as breathwork, ritual, communion, and fantasy. In essence, the collection speaks to raise the vibrational frequencies of all species on Earth through a sensual pulse of Black English.From Alchemical Sirensit flickers in balsamic appealmoist in the palms of our handsa psalm a lamp a sap in our lapsan aspplausible love song          after love poemswere last put on holdas in b l a ck a r tthe new black art is this —        find the lost soul and love it

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  We Are The Weather

  Jim McElroy

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  We are the Weather is a mature and coherent first collection by a distinctive and compelling writer. The poems present vivid and often pungent scenes of rural life in exuberant and hardworking language, with childhood and family relationships at their heart.

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  Born in the USA - The...

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The Massachusetts Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  4 - Beyond by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - Come Unto Me by Katherine Lee Bates 
  6 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  7 - Hymn to the North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
  8 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - October by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Measure Every Grief by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - This Was a Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Forms of Heroes by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Hymm for the Celebration at the Laying of the Cornerstone of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calendar of Sonnets - February by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - The Fir Tree and the Brook by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - The Poet by Amy Lowell 
  37 - Meeting House Hill by Amy Lowell 
  38 - Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  39 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  40 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell 
  41 - Midnight by James Russell Lowell 
  42 - A Contrast by James Russell Lowell 
  43 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  44 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell 
  45 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell 
  46 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
  47 - In Youth I Have Known One by Edgar Allan Poe 
  48 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  49 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  50 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 
  51 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  52 - On the 10th October by Phillip Henry Savage 
  53 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  54 - Casey at the Bat by Ernest L Thayer 
  55 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  56 - Woof of the Sun by Henry David Thoreau 
  57 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  58 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  59 - A Day by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  60 - The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  61 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  62 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  63 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter

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  The Top 10 Poets – The American...

  Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Lowell,...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  The American poetess may have lived in the constancy and overbearing shadows of their male colleagues but their verse is the equal of each and every man, whoever they may be.  Their words do not surrender to pity or lack of self-esteem, but are glowing tributes to the talents of humanity despite the shadows that often clouded their lives.

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