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Piggybacked is a collection of poems that evokes universal experiences of beauty, pain, suffering, longing, joy, mirth, dreams, and nightmares, allowing the reader a glimpse into the unorthodox world view of the poet. With thought-provoking imagery, these poems delve into the paradoxes of our own human existence. The inspiration for this book came from the author's relationship with her late grandfather, also a poet, and their individual quests for freedom. The title of the book is an expression of ancestral ties that bind us through the generations.

[In this new collection of 92 poems written in the first half of 2011] earth, wind, fire and water are Stewart Warren's muses. Each image has for its ground of being, one of these elements and each one makes his poems sing. Likewise, many of his poems are grounded in a kind of spiritual renaissance: whether or not he's speaking of loss, of blood, of guilt, of love, or trees, rivers and ghosts, in Stewart's hard-earned southwest rhythms, they not only continue to sing, "they will just keep circling". There are some beautiful, tough, big-spirited things going on in this book. In his landscapes, the echoes often return, and when they do, there is something to be learned and shared.-John Macker, poetAuthor of Underground Sky andWoman of the Disturbed Earth

Composed with a voice of authenticity, this collection sings with a celebration of nature. These poems, crafted by visual artist and poet K. K. Cherry, illuminate a path for the reader through some of the more sublime landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, the small and hidden places so often overlooked. Cherry's stylistic use of punctuation and enjambment, and her love of alliteration, create a lyric and meditative tone that resonates in the places where we come to befriend ourselves. Consistent in candor with her nature poems, her personal antidotal pieces from childhood paint poignant scenes from a rural America that is not so much hidden as it has vanished.

Celebrating a group of working New Mexico poets from differing generations, ethnicities and cultural settings, the Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2011 includes a variety of forms from the sonnet and villanelle to open verse and slam. Rather than rely on a regional, academic or ideological theme, this collection includes the best poems from a grassroots community that meets monthly in Albuquerque, New Mexico to perform, discuss and appreciate the written and spoken word. The uniqueness and strength of this endeavor resides in the dedication of its participants to value community above all other identifiers. The reader will not only experience the literary qualities inherent in this work but can join with others in the camaraderie and spirit of authentic collaboration.

Stewart Warren takes on the big themes-the war and peace we carry within us and how these forces play out in our relationships with family, lovers, the earth and the global village. This is a brave book, an unflinching exploration of how we love and fail to love.-Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

"Stewart Warren's writing evokes the mesmerizing landscape in which he lives, the aliveness of its present, the mystery of its past, the seen and the unseen. With unequivocal honesty his words birth stirring and sensuous images, calling for our humanity and deepest compassion. This latest collection of poetry is deeply visceral, stirs the blood, enlivens the skin and provokes the mind..."-Cindy Novelo, Musician and Songwriter

In The Sea Always Near, Warren's poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet-from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma.Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape. He reminds us we are Star Stuff. But he's also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world.These wonderful poems in which "...grace has turned every corner..." and "[t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever" speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not.-Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry

After seeing an inmate interviewed on a television program Mary began writing to inmates in state prisons. A few years later in a prison visiting room she met Mark. Mark was twenty-five and serving twenty-to-life for a liquor store robbery that went bad and ended in murder. Mary, a college student, became enamored by the long and beautiful letters he wrote. She didn't know that this murder, the death of someone she never knew, would become a transforming power in her life more than thirty years later.

'You, Always Near' is Pamela Warren Williams' second collection of poetry, this time an evocative celebration of the circuitous route of love, shared with the late poet, Stewart S. Warren. These poems may be engaged emotionally, intellectually, or spiritually, in following one poet's journey to find a voice equal to the task of telling this story through poetry's work of retrieving the original ecstasy. Included are the joys and endless laughter, the mysteries, divine moments, and the dog's accompanying magic. Newly revealed coping skills emerge in the light and dark of transition as ultimately does the required resilience in reassembly of the newly solo sojourner, with the gifts that remain.

The range of voices that occupy the poems of Cruisin' Passion Boulevard-as tender as they are tough, as bawdy as they are sexy, as funny as they are wise-create their own rich mythology. The poems create their own world that we love to be in-of praise and singing, of knowing each other wherever we are, in the weave of family as much as in the world of the saints. This is a world to be reckoned with, to be embraced: this is a book to read and read over.

Sally L. Fulton's book of poetry and Paintings was awarded first place in the 2018 EVVY Awards by Colorado Independent Publishers Association. This first book of published poetry, My Life So Far: Breathing Lessons, by Sally L. Fulton invites you to enter intimately into her life and shows the reader, with clear and lyrical imagery, how she finds meaning in each moment. Her life is a microcosm of the suffering and transformation that everyone faces. That transformation, for this writer, is found in nature, and in the Buddhist principal which Thich Nhat Hanh calls "interbeing", the knowledge based on both spiritual and physical understanding that we are all a part of something greater that unifies us. Included in this artistic volume are several images of her paintings, each as rich and diverse as her poems. These paintings reflect the beauty of what the painter sees with her eyes as well as what she encounters in the unexpected nature of the spontaneous. It is through both language as well as through painting that she has come to find potent avenues toward an expression of her own truth.

The Odds of Becoming Ourselves ... These "odds" are that we will, each of us, become ourselves, our individual selves. Our odds, also, are opportunities; choices. As the life-span increases for many of us, we have more of a selection. And as this life becomes real, we can create a recipe, a map, and then live it to the best odds we can muster. This book about becoming ourselves follows life experiences of Carol Shelton March.She re-lives this life in poetry and prose. Influenced by her life experiences from childhood, her teens, and through adulthood to maturity ... Carol says, "I am still learning". Her hope is to take the reader through these experiences in a way that conveys a story, provokes thought and is an enjoyment to read.

My Mother and I, We Talk Cat is a remarkable memoir that describes the complex relationship between mother and daughter in riveting poetry and prose. The journey they take is strewn with words, books, empty bottles and the redemption of love.

In A High-Spirited Woman the author reaches into the personal, highly complex, and life-defining moments that shine inwardly toward many of life's naked truths. Her poems reflect lifelong involvement with what are often confounding emotional responses to observing life's realities. For her those realities have always included not only the physical world but the parallel reality of the heart, mind, and soul with its own unique imprint. Within that mindset and model of looking at the world, Meredith soon recognized that the outer and inner worlds impact and alter each other, significantly affecting the individual throughout life. Because she values each person as an individual self-driven by dignity and dreams that matter, very early on meaningful involvement with those around her became critical to her understanding of herself and others and remains so. The author's poetry reveals the emotional responses that come from many kinds of loss, things wished for but not having as well as acceptance of life's wonderful gifts, some now gone from life, but just as important as they once were. Each person's life experience has many mirrors, both from within and without. A High-Spirited Woman respects those mirrors, showing us who we were, who we are, and if we're lucky, perhaps a glimpse of what's next.

The Workplace Zoo is a collection of poems about fictitious, relatable characters that everyone has encountered in the workplace. This book is descriptive, sometimes sarcastic, always sharply attuned to traits these fictitious characters possess. Keen observations address the zoo subjects-whether they be bosses, employees, or co-workers. It is enjoyable to see how many characters you recognize in your own work environment.

In Elise Stuart's first poetry collection, Another Door Calls, the reader is invited to step into the stark beauty of the desert as she explores this wilderness in a far corner of southwest New Mexico. Rivers and mountains become her teachers on the journey as she begins to know this wild terrain more intimately. The land becomes a mirror revealing itself to her, revealing her own inner landscape in startling silence and the language of poetry.

This memoir by Trudie S. Barreras is specifically focused on the author's efforts to find a meaningful basis in the context of Christianity to maintain an ongoing relationship with her husband after he acknowledged his homosexuality. Although there are many "coming out" stories now available, and a few narratives of the way in which a heterosexual spouse of a gay individual may have made a realistic adjustment to co-parenting of children after separation, the option to remain married seems to be fairly unique. Besides describing the actual events in the lives of this couple and their extended family, the narrative discusses aspects of the development of Metropolitan Community Church, outreach experiences in the Dominican Republic, and the interplay of other factors such as retreats and meditation. The author discusses here reasons for rejecting the extremely rigid definitions of sexual ethics promulgated by major Christian denominations in favor of a more honest interpretation of Love as taught by Jesus.

Death of a child brings to light the hidden sexual abuse perpetrated by a priest at a boy's ranch in New Mexico. One volunteer worker secretly fights against church and state to resolve the abuse, while struggling with his own faith and personal tragedies. It all culminates in lawsuits and an emotional conclusion 40 years later. A heart wrenching memoir that speaks of courage as well as sends a message that everyone should read.

The poems in Rabbit Sun, Lotus Moon present those uncommon moments when we recognize our world not only as a landscape or backdrop for our individual and collective experiences, but also as soulful nourishment (if we pay attention). The poet shares with the reader a journey of awakening "to what is important in this one precarious life between earth and sky." Each poem arrives unexpectedly and deliciously like a handwritten letter or postcard from a relative, close friend, or even from your former (or perhaps future) self. This volume extends and complements the author's first collection, When East Was North (2012 Mercury HeartLink). Andi Penner lives, works, and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This award-winning novel follows the short life of Kyle O'Sullivan who is running from his troubled past after a fire consumes his aunt's orchid estate on Maui, destroying their livelihood and killing his only living relative. Realizing that the fire was meant for him, he must flee for his life. He moves to Tempe, Arizona, bringing with him the only orchid to survive the fire -the Dracula vampira, also called the Orchid of the Night. He finds solace in the gay sanctuary of Ixtlan; however, even with a new identity he cannot escape his tragic fate. As historical fiction, Kyle's story sheds light on the Gay Liberation Movement in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic as well as on one of the nation's first gay sanctuaries, still existing near Gallup, New Mexico. In part two of the novel, the second protagonist, Detective Andy Gomez, becomes embroiled in the secrets and lies of Kyle's past that relate to his own family saga. This provocative, emotionally charged thriller delves into the inner worlds of both protagonists as they grapple with painful paradoxes of life and shows how redemption is possible even in the face of tragedy.

In A Journey into the Heart of the Black Madonna: Self-Discovery, Spiritualism, Activism, Ms. Medina eagerly invites the reader into her relationship with the Black Madonna and its transformative nature. We travel through her dreams, intuition, and relationships; we reach spiritual peaks, then descend into verdant valleys of change. Her exquisite descriptions of Nature serve as an awakening to the harsh contrast of environmental degradation, and the clarity of her writing shines light on important social issues. Men and women who are yearning to connect to their deep intuitive and spiritual roots and who long to make a difference in the world will find both tools for change and inspiration in Ms. Medina's journey with the vibrant, loving Black Madonna.