Religious Poetry

Nothing and Everything will resonate with listeners interested in meditation, mindfulness, and nontraditional spirituality, especially those connected to TM and the David Lynch Foundation. Though not self-help, it offers comfort not by providing answers but by giving space to sit with questions.

This debut full-length collection from prose-poet Evan D. Williams comprises two dozen pieces selected from literary journals - including Borderlands and The Mud Season Review - and a further two dozen pieces that appear here for the first time. The audiobook version is narrated by multiple Voice Arts Award winner Xe Sands.

Poetry readers often interpret the works of poets such as Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Tupac Shakur. But in the absence of commentary from the authors, interpreters must guess at the meaning. The ones best suited to explain have always been the authors. And the author’s commentary is what makes A Not So Ordinary Book of Poetry: Your Life Has Purpose! unique. It includes encouraging and inspirational backstories of the authors’ poems.

My Brother Ron is based on the true-life events of Todd and Ron Santos. This story is rooted in emotion, and coupled with motivation and inspiration. While Ron Santos recovers from a horrific hit and run, Todd ascends to NCAA history. Ron Santos dreams of following in his big brother's footsteps as a big time high school and college quarterback, but that's when tragedy interferes with the promise of youth. Based on true events.

Mental Warfare is a deeply personal collection of poetry that navigates the often-hidden struggles of mental health. I created this book to help people understand mental health and its issues better, shedding light on the raw, intense emotional struggles we face and capturing the essence of inner battles with heartfelt honesty. This chapbook isn’t just about acknowledging the pain, but also about finding paths to healing and embracing empowerment.

Heartfelt poetry, narrated by Antonio De'mon Robinson, is innovative, thought-provoking, and insightful. Listeners will not only covet Heartfelt's intellectual prowess, but also feel every word as they echo throughout the chambers of their hearts. Unquestionably, the spectacular audiobook edition of Heartfelt is destined to awaken people from a deep sleep and incessant attacks on their consciousnesses by nefarious individuals.

Following on his bestselling collections, The Truth of You and The Secret of You, Thomas’s latest volume of over two hundred poems examines how we find the faith to carry on when everything has been stripped away and all that remains is the core of who we are. The Heart of You explores fear, bravery, intimacy, what we keep, and what we leave behind.

With the same vulnerability and timelessness as her debut collection Old Monarch, Love Is a Dog That Bites When It’s Scared acknowledges the layers to our feelings, experiences, and humanity. Inspired by her own life, Courtney Marie Andrews speaks gently to love and its many layers. She comforts readers with the knowledge that though love is confusing, unorganized, bewitching, and often too hard, it is also magical, and surreal, and always worth it.

Observing the fragility of the body and soul in a world of threat, these startling poems stem from a central boyhood memory—the author’s near-drowning in a swimming pool on Crete. The observant child was troubled that none of the statues they saw had arms—and then it was his father’s arms lifting him from the water, saving his life.

After spending her life fantasizing about her dream husband, Ana believes she has finally found the one when she meets Alec Coleman. He is charming, witty, and has looks to die for. The two feel an instant attraction, and it seems that Ana’s dreams have finally come true. But when Alec rekindles a relationship with his former ex-girlfriend, Ana’s perfect life soon spirals into chaos. As a convert to Islam, Ana discovers her new religion allows men to take multiple wives. She thinks nothing much of it until Alec uses force and influence to draw her into a polygamous marriage.

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: Pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise.

Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he records with infinite precision the nature of work on the production line: the noise, the weariness, the dreams stolen by the repetitive nature of exhausting rituals and physical suffering. But he finds solace in a life previously lived. Shelling prawns, he dreams of Alexandre Dumas. Pushing cattle carcasses, he recalls Apollinaire.

There are times in life when we are faced with decisions having everlasting effects. Hunter is a high school student, forced to choose which path to take. Hitting his head during an LDS church basketball game, his memory is shaken. The results leave him scrambling to make sense of his relationships with his family, his friends, and the teachings harbored deep inside him. Hunter is left to choose between his best friend and his old life or to embrace his family and the feelings pushing against his past. And then there's Jessie. She won't give the old Hunter the time of day.

… The story of usmay be over,but the story of me continues on. And what becomes of mein the chapters ahead, can only be written by me. Anyone who has lived a full life knows that their journey is certain to be filled with ups and downs that must be ridden like a wave until the seas calm again. Shelley Brown shares a look into her heart and experiences in candid reflections that address the challenges, loves, losses, and triumphs we all experience while here on Earth.

When the Gods Were Half Human is an exploration of pain, love and personal transformation which delves—poignant and irreverent—into questions of being and transcendence that blur the line between sacred and mundane.

A collection of short poems that are reflective of life, love, society, circumstances, and understanding. The concept of the book is that every page is like walking up to a new reflection in a wall of mirrors. Each reflection is different from the last, showing a person a different view of themselves. Most these poems were written with deeper meaning and subtext, although, many are straightforward and on the nose.

Scott Calloway has a lot going through his head. Family members, psychologists, and doctors see little value in him after he suffers a traumatic head injury. With the help of his aunt, a wise pastor, and a woman desperate for love, he learns how to thrive despite his condition.

After having a near-death experience that sends RonaLaFae into a tailspin of rejection and anger, she is forced to deal with murder and forgiveness. Feeling lost and alone, she meets a mysterious, old Native American. She calls him “Grandfather”. Grandfather takes RonaLaFae under his wing. Under his tutelage, she soars and becomes who she is meant to be, a shaman and spiritual leader given the name “Hoot”. In this inspiring audiobook, Hoot shares how you a near-death experience can unlock the wisdom we each possess.

February 1975. Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar modules, has successfully landed. Exhilarated and confident, Commander Gary Lucas and Pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression in the surface of the lunar South Pole

After some time of not meeting him, Tevye the Milkman meets Sholom Aleichem, the story's primary narrator as well as its author, and begins to tell of the troubles that have come on him (turning his hair gray) because of his gullibility, fatalism, and obedience to God, which make him an easy target for misfortune.