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  White Terror Black Trauma -...

  Philip C. Kolin

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  The 61 poems in White Terror Black Trauma concentrate on some of the most traumatic events in Black history from colonial to contemporary times, from the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 to Black revolts, Civil War atrocities, incalculable lynchings, the Tulsa massacre, the brave sacrifices of Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, the heroes of school desegregation, the murders of Emmet Till, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols. And so many other Black tragedies.  
   
   
  Each poem here carries a brief head note identifying the person, place, time, or event that addresses the historical context of the poem. Some poems are written in a his/her recollection of the historical event. Above all, each poem highlights the topography of Black trauma, be that a Civil War fort, a lynching tree, a prison, a school, an island, a ghetto, a river, a national monument, a church, or city street. These resistance poems are chronicles, laments, petitions, heroic recollections about racial attacks on Black people in America.

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  The Brightening Air

  Conor McPherson

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  'You'll remember how much of living is really just forgetting.'
  The family home is more than a building. It's a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or magic. But, for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they've got. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they're doing just fine.
  That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble…
  An entrancing tale of fate, family and unseen forces in 1980s Ireland, Conor McPherson's play The Brightening Air was the winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. It was first performed at The Old Vic, London, in 2025, directed by the playwright.

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  Black Roses - Odes Celebrating...

  Harold Green III

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  The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles—with this compilation of celebratory odes.  
  Black women are exceptional. To honor how Black women use their minds, talent, passion, and power to transform society, Harold Green began writing love letters in verse which he shared on his Instagram account. Balm for our troubled times, his tributes to visionaries and leaders quickly went viral and became a social media sensation. Now, in this remarkable collection, Green brings together many of these popular odes with never-before-seen works.  
  A timely celebration of contemporary Black figures who are making history and shaping our culture today, Black Roses is divided into five sections—advocates, curators, innovators, luminaries, trailblazers—reflecting the diversity of Black women’s achievements and the depth of their reach. These inspiring changemakers are leaving their mark on the world by creating new beauty in their respective art forms, heading movements, fighting for equality and to change the status quo, and championing new definitions of what’s possible in every meaningful way. Green lifts them up to create meaningful connections between these figures and our own lives and experiences. 
  Black Roses spotlights and urges readers to learn more about Allyson Felix, Angelica Ross, Ava DuVernay, Bisa Butler, Bozoma Saint John, Charisma Sweat-Green, Dr. Eve Ewing, Dr. Janice Jackson, Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Eunique Jones-Gibson, Issa Rae, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Matthews, Kamala Harris, Keisha Bottoms, Kimberly Bryant, Kimberly Drew, Lisa Green, Lizzo, Mandilyn Graham, Mellody Hobson, Michelle Alexander, Misty Copeland, Naomi Beckwith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Rapsody, Raquel Willis, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, Shellye Archambeau, Simone Biles, Stacey Abrams, Tabitha Brown, Tamika Mallory, Tarana Burke, Tasha Bell, Tomi Adeyemi, and Tracee Ellis Ross. 
  The audiobook edition of Black Roses also includes an exclusive interview between Green and his mother about the making of the collection.

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  The Two Voices - An...

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. 
  Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby grammar school.  He also showed an early and burgeoning talent for writing; by the age of twelve he had written a 6,000-line epic poem.  
  In the 1820s, however, Tennyson’s father began to suffer frequent mental breakdowns exacerbated by his alcoholism. One brother had frequent violent quarrels with his father, a second would be confined to an insane asylum, and another was later an opium addict. 
  Tennyson left home in 1827 to join his brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with it escape from Somersby. At Trinity he was those who knew little of the problems that clouded his life. Although shy he was keen to make new friends; he was handsome, intelligent, humorous, and a gifted impersonator. 
  That same year, he and his brother Charles published Poems by Two Brothers. It attracted the attention of the “Apostles," a select undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Hallam. They provided friendship and confidence. Hallam and Tennyson became the best of friends. 
  The pair, in the summer of 1830, were involved in a ridiculous jaunt to take money and secret messages to revolutionaries plotting to overthrow the Spanish king. Tennyson's political enthusiasm was marginal compared to Hallam's, but he was glad to make his first trip abroad.  
  The landscape and atmosphere of the Pyrenees generated such wonderful poems as "Oenone," "The Lotus-Eaters;" inspired by a waterfall in the mountains; and "The Eagle;" invoked from the sight of the great hunters circling above them. The small village of Cauteretz and the surrounding valley became a location Tennyson would return to many times over the next sixty years. 
  In 1830, he published Poems, ‘Chiefly Lyrical’ and in 1832 a volume entitled ‘Poems’.  Tennyson, stung by the harshness of several reviews, would not publish again for nine years.  
  In the autumn of 1833, in what was meant as a gesture of gratitude and reconciliation to his father, Hallam accompanied him to the Continent. In Vienna Hallam died suddenly of apoplexy as a result of a congenital malformation of the brain.  
  Hallam’s death, together with that of his father and a myriad of anxieties, stem-ming mainly from the belief that his family were grimly attached to poverty, and fears that he might become a victim of epilepsy, madness, alcohol, and drugs, as others in his family had, or that he might die like Hallam, conspired to upset the delicate balance of Tennyson's emotions.  
  In 1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood. From their correspondence it is clear that she was very much in love with him. He seems to excessively worry about not having the financial means to marry.  He was also falling into trances, which he thought were connected with the epilepsy from which other family members suffered. To marry, he thought, would mean passing on the disease to any children he might father. He broke off the engagement. 
  During these years he used the dark feelings and events to write many of his finest works; "Ulysses," "Morte d'Arthur," "Tithonus," "Tiresias," and "Break, break, break."  
  In 1842 Tennyson’s Poems (in two volumes) was a tremendous critical and popular success.  
  In 1845 he was granted a government pension of £200 a year in recognition of his poetic achievements and his financial need.  Despite this financial support his doubts persisted.  
  Life for Tennyson was becoming increasingly productive and more lucrative.  By 1849 ‘The Princess’ had been published. He was now offered a large advance if he would assemble his elegies on Hallam into one complete poem.  
  Tennyson had now also resumed his relationship with Emily Sellwood and by the following year was talking again of marrying her. 
  In the Spring of 1850 the Poet Laureate William Wordsworth died and a new Laureate was

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  Man Of Many Voices

  Tiger Windwalker

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  Man Of Many Voices is a presentation of contemporary poetry and music authored, performed, and narrated by Tiger Windwalker. Tiger takes the listener through an insightful journey of mind, consciousness, spirit, and soul that speaks directly to the voices within each of us. MOMV appeals to our better angels to find peace within ourselves and to project positivity and grace into a world that can seem full of uncertainty and bereft of understanding.

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  The Strange Egg - A Symptoms Diary

  Kirstie Millar

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  'Doctor, I had a terrible dream.
  In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw what you will do to it.'
  A woman is faced, month after month, with the birth of a strange egg. Her doctor asks that she take notes on her symptoms, documenting black blood clots as big as pennies, winking stars in her eyes, and relentless pain. As the woman waits for aid from her doctor, she begins to have strange premonitions of what will be done to her body. The egg, meanwhile, is watchful and demanding. Impatient.
  The Strange Egg is as gorgeous as it is horrifying. Highly original, it challenges long-held beliefs that people of marginalised genders are unreliable and irrational witnesses to our own bodies.
  The Strange Egg is a luminous gothic prose poem that delves into the mythopoeic to express injustice at the hands of abusive medical systems.

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