Southern Poetry

Kathryn Tucker Windham begins this montage of stories with the sounds of summer and ends with a joyful Christmas memory. The mixture of tales, from the mouth-watering description of good Southern food to the story of a governor more familiar with Tom Sawyer than Tom Jefferson, comes together to evoke the image of a happy childhood.

Verses From the Heart is a charming and heartfelt collection of poetry beautifully written by Augusta Georgia native JoMadalyn Burt. Tapping into her real-life experiences, Burt takes us on a poetic journey filled with inspiration, joy, pride, love and even grief as she shares bits and pieces of her soul in this lifelong collection of poetry. Verses From the Heart is filled with that familiar southern charm.

Southern Bred is a haunting, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the listener into the heart and soul of the Deep South. Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse, it showcases Ghigna’s southern soul and his tender, yet piercing language, and affirms his place as one of the finest poets of our time.

Serafina has a secret dream. She wants to go to school and become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But in their rural village outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, many obstacles stand in Serafina's way - little money, never-ending chores, and Manman's worries. More powerful even than all of these are the heavy rains and the shaking earth that test Serafina's resolve in ways she never dreamed. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this exquisitely crafted story will leave a lasting impression on your heart.

So many years ago, we used to joke that neither one of us could rattle the suitcases, because the other would say, “Let’s go!” Even when we first dated, Allen told me, “I’m not the marrying kind. I like to travel too much.” Our first trips were to Mexico, camping across the United States and Canada, and many shorter trips between. Once, I told Allen that I’d always wanted to travel around the Horn of South America. When I retired from teaching in 2008, he made this dream come true. This travel memoir allows you to travel along with us, enjoying poems, travel notes, and ...

Living with depression is the greatest challenge for humankind but it can be overcome: a unique voice inside you will make you heal. Beautiful Poison is a book that is filled with heartbreak, grief, loneliness but it is also filled with personal transformation and healing. It's written for you: the one who is in pain right now. Your struggles will not go unnoticed, and your pain will be the definition of beauty tomorrow. You will discover that life is so beautiful even during the days you're surrounded by the dark clouds of depression. Dive into these uplifting poems and allow yourself to ...

This program is read by the author. In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth...

This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular “I Am An African”, as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".

Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet - he’s still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist.

The riveting second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Door of No Return trilogy stars Kofi’s granddaughter, Charley, who’s set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town.You...

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness. Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet’s voice can...

In the long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling collection, The Truth of You, poet Iain Thomas explores the unseen forces that shape our inner experience. A collection of over 200 pieces of poetry and prose,The Secret of Youfocuses on the thoughts and feelings that we might not share and have...

MINDSCAPES Volume 1 is a collection of poems written by the author while in exile. In these poems, Thompson Charlie explores the tragedy of displacement. Without any means of economic support, he finds his life anchor-less in a foreign environment. His introspection reveals an honest and tortured sensibility appalled at his own abrogation of duty and the disintegration of his inner world. It is a poignant journey of loneliness and disillusionment with a cruel political system - after his country gained independence - that persecutes and dehumanizes its own people. Mindscapes Volume 1 stands...

Previously published as [Descriptions of an Angel] [Episodes 1-12] on Kindle Vella Christina is beautiful, young, and currently winning at life. Her lifestyle is one that many would envy, but she still yearns for something more. Dante is one of the infamous Cameron brothers, who became popular when their grandfather leaves them a fortune. While none of them are married yet, Dante longs for a loving partner. When the two finally meet, they speed into a beautiful relationship. Will everything remain perfect, or will their fast growing flame soon burn out?

WINNER OF THE 2025 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD FROM THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS A stunning new collection exploring lineage and the legacy of survival as seen through the life of the poet’s grandmother Alice—a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South—using the King James Bible as a narrative...

Full-cast dramatised retellings of the two most important epic Sanskrit poems of ancient India The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are literary classics, the longest epic poems in world literature, as significant as the Bible, the Qu'ran and the works of Shakespeare. Estimated to have been composed...

“Gorgeous poetry” (People) that celebrates Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis. “These are lush poems full of radical love and strength.”—Warsan Shire, author of Bless the...

Read by the author, Jake Hawkey. In But & Though, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families, its title a nod to the language of dependency, its circles of prevarication and excuse. Hawkey’s poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings, and...

2025 National Book Award Finalist The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the “beautiful, vulnerable, honest” (Ross Gay, New York Times bestselling author) I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood. Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love...

In the third and final installment of the Souls Trilogy, acclaimed poet Iain S. Thomas explores what hope feels like after despair. Following on his bestselling collections, The Truth of You and The Secret of You, Thomas’s latest volume of over two-hundred poems examines how we find the faith...