She Speaks Poetry

A seasoned and sought-after orator, edyka chilome puts to the page poems that claim space for healing herself and her communities. Pulling from modern and pre-columbian American language and culture, edyka explores "herstory" through personal and global politics, spirituality, and the origins of poetry itself. In the tradition of queer women of color writers, edyka chilome's She Speaks Poetry invites us to consider the complexity of our human condition and the need to tell our stories. For the first time in a print collection, "She Speaks For Herself."

She Speaks is a collection of poetry from spirit filled women who gathered together to raise their voices to speak out against calamitous events that effect the human soul. Nevertheless, there is an undying strand of resilience here, a nuance of hope that points to the human ability to move on, to build a new life out of a shattered past. Each poem addresses difficult issues concerning hardships and miraculous moments in the lives of women. Some are spirited statements that demonstrate courage even in brutal circumstances; others rage at the perpetrators of warfare or simply mourn their losses. Together, these works reveal a deep consciousness of both the effects of violence, disappointment, love, kindness, motherly love, and the human ability to move forward. The women whose poems appear in this collection stand for peace and the unrelenting ability to continue to love. No matter whatthey continue to love.

This anthology of “Cowgirl” poets, and edited by Jill Charlotte Stanford (The Cowgirl's Cookbook, Keep Cookin' Cowgirl) features the words of a wide range of Western women poets chosen for this collection by real ranching women and cowgirls across the West as the poets whose words most speak to them and the Western experience.

She Speaks Tongues is a collection of the rising voices of five women, from silence (her image, ) to gesture, to word. Each section starts with a woman's portrait and follows with her unique rising voice in asemic writing to poems (words). Asemic writing lies between the mystery what is yet to be spoken, and semantics.

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

The renowned Nahna James has written a five-series poetry collection titled My Favourite Poems: Poetry From The Pen Of A Nigerian Teenager. This is his debut collection of poetry and prose. It contains poems and essays on topics such as ; Nigeria, love, real feelings, sexuality, grief, nudism, bisexuality, loss, melancholy, loneliness, healing, marginalisation, self-love, unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that develops when we make an effort to understand ourselves. Many readers have referred to his writing as "life changing," "healing," and "part of their every day ritual." This book is a lovely reminder of the celebration of hope, an encounter with grace, a mending of the heart, a healing of scars, and a hymn of liberation, that one can always choose to transform themselves. It's just up to you to make a decision.

“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Ken Babstock Manahil Bandukwala Courtney Bates-Hardy Roxanna Bennett Ronna Bloom Louise Carson Kate Cayley Kitty Cheung Dani Couture Kayla Czaga Šari Dale Unnati Desai Tina Do Andrew DuBois Paola Ferrante Beth Goobie Nina Philomena Honorat Liz Howard Maureen Hynes George K Ilsley Eve Joseph Ian Keteku Judith Krause M Travis Lane Mary Dean Lee Canisia Lubrin Randy Lundy David Ly Yohani Mendis Pamela Mosher Susan Musgrave Téa Mutonji Barbara Nickel Ottavia Paluch Kirsten Pendreigh Emily Pohl-Weary David Romanda Matthew Rooney Zoe Imani Sharpe Sue Sinclair John Steffler Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Arielle Twist David Ezra Wang Phoebe Wang Hayden Ward Elana Wolff Eugenia Zuroski Jan Zwicky