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Mary Sexson and Lylanne Musselman connected quickly and became poetry sisters. This joint book leads the reader down two different paths the authors have walked. As you meander through the pages you will find tears and joy, fear and anticipation, life and death. This book leads you down a self-reflective arc where you will find hope in good times and bad.Despite having traveled very different paths, Mary Sexson and Lylanne Musselman remind us in Marriage Maps and Driven Destinies that the people we journey with profoundly impact our paths and purposes. The poets' talents for imagery and analogy place us in fast cars driving Indiana roads after curfew and sitting in waiting rooms reflecting on mortality-raw and relatable vignettes resonating of hardship, heartache, and tenderness. Poems illustrate how our choices when navigating threats, for better or worse, prepare us to survive and find joy in what might feel routine or mundane. Independence comes from boldly taking the wheel and learning when to stop and ask for directions. Sexson and Musselman's collection explores relationships that shape and bind us: those we cherish and those we must forgive. Liz WhiteacreAuthor of Hit the Ground and founder of Etchings PressFrom cancer to cars, love to longing, the collected poems of Marriage Maps and Driven Destinies remind us that wisdom, too, is a journey, not a destination. It is the journey of this book.Sexson's poems speak with a delicate but honest self-examination. Her husband's cancer diagnosis shapes some of her most revealing and insightful poems. Love, fear and grueling uncertainty bring home the ultimate truth of a long marriage.Musselman's robust voice takes us back to the fast cars and AM radio of smalltown Indiana. While they convey a sense of isolation and loneliness, her poems have a humor and humanity that meets life head on. "Not one to fear the dark", she travels the winding roads that ultimately bring her closest to home. Liz Hughes WileyPoet, educator, and event planner. Wiley planned the memorable tribute to George Hitchcock, famous editor of the poetry journal Kayak

Patricia Cupp's poems are an extension of her deep connection to the world around her. She explores beauty, grief, nature, and life mixed in her love of language.

In an age when personal poetry struggles to be heard over the noise of its narcissistic imposters, Liza Hyatt's voice cuts through clean and clear at a frequency that delights the listener with discovery. These poems, each a step in her endless journey under a 50-pound backpack of rattling love, are the priceless property of the writer and her late, difficult, captivating mother. Yet they demonstrate once again the power of Hyatt's mind and music to extend intimacy to all of us. -Dan Carpenter, editorial page columnist, poet, author of More Than I Could See and Hard Pieces: Dan Carpenter's Indiana Liza Hyatt is lucky to have learned from her mother the word "memory" and the sweet fruit of pear at an early age. Her mother taught her the "imagination is essential, healing and ancient," and that is exactly what Hyatt does for us as we voyage in her boat with white sails to her world of childhood, vivid with bright and dark gems, fed by a strong mother love, nurturing her (as the pear) and sometimes not. Hyatt reveals to us how she accepts their relationship and moves forward, as we all must do to be fully on our own. This brave and honest collection urges us toward compassion for that wild and varied dance of all children and their mothers. -Bonnie Maurer, MFA, author of The Reconfigured Goddess: Poems of a Breast Cancer Survivor and Reconfigured

Todd Outcalt's first book of poetry touches deep inside the human spirit with a universal pen. When you read this collection of poems you will believe that Todd watched you for the inspiration.

A powerful collection of spoken word poems focused on social issues of the times.