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About “Love Letters to Myself"
“Poetry focused in the areas of learning from past mistakes, overcoming trauma and living for today enmeshed with nature photographs taken and chosen by the author to embody the poems that they accompany.”
About Steven M Wuebker:
Life as a corporate executive, a culinary professional, a retail associate, and a lover of all-things creative, Steven M. Wuebker writes from a perspective of having “lived 100 lives” as one reader has stated. His ability to incorporate everyday nuances, current events, magical moments, and never-ending hope for the future into his poetry is uncanny. His poems are short in length yet exceptionally detailed in wordplay. His writing magically stimulates intense and deep imagery, aimed at creating mental montages that linger long after the page is turned. He hails from southwestern Ohio and “Pages Torn From A Plague...” is his first book of poetry.
“He Bruise”,by Chayyim Eliezer Ben Isreal
“This collection is a compilation of thoughts, emotions, and situations experienced along a journey of trying to figure out who I am”
Gabby Loomis-Amrhein’s debut collection seeks to address trans struggle and liberation in the crepuscularity and in-betweenness of rural being. Showing the country itself as queer, "evening primroses" serves as a sort of field guide for growth and change in that space, marking the passage of time between woodcock dance and trillium bloom, a record of having been, becoming, coming out.
Sometimes we get the privilege to know the indicative years of our life while we are living them, so we take more pictures, listen to more songs that make us feel like we are in a movie, and write down every memory that makes us warm. The last year of my twenties felt overwhelmingly sacred to me; I knew that life would continue to not go as expected but I needed to taste every moment. In this body, at this time, with my community and alone I desperately wanted to capture it all. I stopped trying to sell myself and invested in what I loved instead. I stopped trying to explain myself and learned to just be, it's been intoxicating.
“Each reader extracts something unique from my writings, and that’s precisely why I write. By Crafting visual imagery that resonates uniquely with each reader’s personal reality, I aim to offer a momentary escape—a pause from life’s demands, however brief.”
"Polychotomy," the debut poetry collection by Adelia Jupiter.
Through the lens of a god broken down by the trauma of mortal existence, these poems explore the multifaceted nature of identity from the very beginning. Despite the fractures, the pieces journey from pain, blame, and self-loathing toward self-love, compassion, and the extraordinary sensation of acceptance. "Polychotomy" is a powerful testament to rising from brokenness and embracing the divine within, inviting readers to witness the evolution of the self into the synthesis of godhood and humanity.