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With her first collection of poetry, Ava Cole takes us on an adventure through her experience with relationships. She takes us on a woman's journey through heartbreak, excitement, anger and how to learn to love yourself again after picking up all the broken pieces. She writes about longing for a love that you can't have in deeply intimate ways. She talks about the sadness that accompanies a love that isn't working no matter the depths that are being taken. Provocative, romantic, relatable and undeniably honest, Beats of Her Heart touches readers in ways in which every reader is able to relate wholeheartedly.

BEFORE WE WERE MAGIC presents poems that both appreciate and challenge the #BlackGirlMagic movement. These vulnerable, yet heartfelt poems address the overlap of gender, race, sexuality, mental health, family, politics, religion, and more. In a time where stories, images, and attributes of Black women are being celebrated as well as exploited; Before We Were Magic offers insight while also acknowledging the path that many Black girls had to travel prior to being considered magic by the masses.

Bella Luna is a narration of the conversations and confessions from a seafarer about his longings and desires for a mermaid that shows herself around the moon cycles. The author, an oceanographer, uses imagery from his knowledge about the ocean, tides, waves, and ocean currents.

A collection of poems written over two decades. Composed for lovers and lonely hearts alike, hopelessly hopeful romantics, those with heartbreaking memories and those with heartwarming dreams. From poet Eric Ryan Bradley, aka "berd, the bard" (formerly known as "The Poet cirEBral")

Some things are just between a Man and a Woman

The very first work produced and published by Bridget M. Robinson. Straight from her journal to the pages of this work of art - finally "Queen B" shares lessons she has learned from loves lost and found. Her resolve will surprise you.

Poetry inspired by love and life inside a seven-year storybook relationship.

Featuring a short story by Beverly Akerman; artwork by Ed Baker; a poem by Eric Bennett; a novel excerpt by Lynn Brewer; poetry by Sarah Forbes; a short story by Aimee Herman; a poem by Kate LaDew; a poem by Jeanne Lesinski; a poem by Sara Lier; a poem by Emily Maggard; a poem by Mira Martin-Parker; a prose excerpt by Nicholas Morris; a poem by AJ Pearson-VanderBroek; a poem by Kristin Roedell; a poem by Aditya Shankar; a poem by Hal Sirowitz; a poem by Midautumn Snow; a poem by Yrik Max Valentonis; a poem by Janean Williams; and a poem by Jana Wilson

A collection of poems detailing heartbreak in the most visceral way possible.