Alicia Cook's Blog - Posts Tagged "poetry"

My little book has managed to become a SEMI-FINALIST in the BEST POETRY category of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016!! It was a write-in nomination that made it, so I need to thank all of you who took the time to literally type in my book's title to cast your first round votes! This is the only major book awards that is reader driven. I kindly ask that you please vote TODAY in this round to keep Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately moving along!! It is election day after all ;) Man, what a year this has been. PLEASE VOTE.

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

Ah! Final stretch. Just SIX DAYS left to VOTE for Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately in the Goodreads Choice Awards. I want to thank everyone who has helped my book make it this far!!

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

My next poetry book, I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip (June 5, 2018), contains poetry, prose, and songwriting.

Today I am sharing HOPE with you. A song that appears in my upcoming poetry collection. This song, co-written and performed by Ada Pasternak, is one of SEVEN songs from my upcoming collection.

It is a resilience anthem for anyone hurting right now. The song's message is clear: with pain, comes strength.

This song is a perfect introduction to I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip as the message of recovery from pain is sewn into every page of the book.

I would love to hear your thoughts! Listen below :) Lyrics are below as well!

xoxo,

Alicia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9rRw...

This song is Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, & Soundcloud:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1nmzPx...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hop...

https://play.google.com/store/music/a...

https://soundcloud.com/ada-pasternak/...

Lyrics Co-written by Alicia Cook

Produced by Keith Parry

String arrangement by Stevie Blacke

String Quartet: Ada Pasternak (Violin)
Will E (Violin)
Emily Elkan (Cello)
Jennifer Wu (Viola)

Bass by Frogs McCormack

Piano by Adam Chester and additional Piano by Alex Williams

Mix by Keith Parry

Master by Jet Galindo (Bakery Mastering)

Lyrics:
Been down and out,
filled with doubt,
had this little heart of mine
kicked around.

All of this hurt,
won’t break my soft.
What is gone,
is never lost.

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief in the bridge,
that all of these scars
are proof that I lived.

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief that tomorrow
will hold a silver lining
to all of this sorrow.

On the sunniest day,
the sky can seem gray,
but all of my warmth
can’t be taken away.

All of these battles,
they’ve made me fierce.
Know that my faith
cannot be pierced.

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief in the bridge,
that all of these scars
are proof that I lived.

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief that tomorrow
will hold a silver lining
to all of this sorrow.

’Cause crying doesn’t make me weak.
It’s my soul, just trying to speak.
Oh, I don’t want to go to sleep,
knowing that I could’ve done better than this.
(Knowing that I could’ve done better than this.)

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief in the bridge,
that all of these scars
are proof that I lived.

There’s still hope in this hook,
belief that tomorrow
will hold a silver lining
to all of this sorrow.

’Cause crying doesn’t make me weak.
This is my heart just trying to speak.

Have you listened to HOPE (w/ Ada Pasternak) the first song from I HOPE MY VOICE DOESN'T SKIP yet??

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9rRw...

My book features 7 singers who turned my poetry into beautiful music! 8 songs were formally recorded! This unique aspect of my book is what I am most excited about! (You can tell by all the exclamation marks I just used in that paragraph.)

I will be releasing the music here and there leading up to the release of the book.

HOPE is a great introduction to the whole book, as my latest poetry collection is dedicated to everyone who is recovering from something.

Don't forget to add I HOPE MY VOICE DOESN'T SKIP to your TBR!! I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip

Love,

Alicia

So excited to share the song Hindsight & Pictures from I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip with everyone!! Co-written with Christopher Andrews. This marks the 3rd song from my upcoming poetry collection. In stores June 5! 🔥

Listen here: http://www.thealiciacook.com/hindsigh...

Have you added I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip to your TBR?? I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip

Hey everyone! I shared a poem from I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip in the latest issue of Double the Books! It is called TOLD MYSELF and I've only read it at one reading so far. Would love to hear your thoughts??

It actually almost didn't make it into the book! I had been working on this one piece for maybe THREE MONTHS and my deadline for my manuscript passed. Luckily, when I finished it, I was able to sneak it into the book!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13n3Q...

I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip comes out June 5.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13n3Q...

With less than two weeks before the release of I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip, La-based band Highland Kites and I are excited to reveal the official lyric video for "Between the Notes." Co-writing with the lead singer, Marissa, was a dream come true. This poem/song can be found in my upcoming poetry collection.

View Here: https://youtu.be/HdBDPLFIh6U

This week I released a longform poem of mine called "Missed Calls and Heroin."

https://medium.com/@the_alicia_cook/m...

I have only read this poem once in front of a crowd and it has never been published anywhere. Until now!

I have decided to publish this poem on Medium, alongside the addiction essays I have been re-publishing.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this poem! I wish you all a lovely rest of your week!

--Alicia Cook

Hey everyone! A little over a month until the final installment of my poetry mixtape series comes out but it's on Netgalley if anyone wants to read and review an ARC!

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...

My book Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately has been adapted into a Song Cycle. Basically a baby opera! Over a year in the making, on Friday the lights will dim, the piano will start, and I will listen to my origin story in a way I never imagined possible.

Read more about it here:

https://www.readpoetry.com/from-verse...