“Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.” FirstsBookDreamWinningTalentPoetAwardsAward Winning Author:Betty Dravis
“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.” LooksHandsEyeNightWinningSimpleBrainPoetPrayingBattleDespairRainSoldierDelightI RealizedInventionTitlesGrantsConsideringSovereigntyGalaxyUnderwearWalkersHutsFrecklesAnything And EverythingNew EyesMy SoldierSeesaw Author:Matthea Harvey
“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.” ChildrenWarLife IsPoetryWinningEnemyFeminismPoetDaughterPerseveranceThis LifeOur Daughter Book:Moon Is Always Female Source: Moon Is Always Female
“The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.” WarHardPoetryFightingWinningSidesLosesPoetPassionateDefeated Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow people who have the condition to be more accepting of it, and to be open about it. That would be a contribution to the people who have it, and considering that 38% of the Pulitzer Prize winning poets are Bipolar, to think about how much these individuals have contributed to the human spirit.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansCharacterWould BeEyeSpiritWinningIndividualAcceptingConditionsPoetContributionPrizeConsideringHuman SpiritBipolarThrough The EyesPrize Winning Author:Paul Dalio