Up in Flames

by Dana Lockhart, Andrew Doty (Foreword)

Words dance across the page like fire dancing in your eyes.

Bonfires, infernos, cinders, and light. Up in Flames features contemporary poetry that sparks and ignites with emotion like wildfires burning long into the night. Explore five great hearths of emotion: despair, fury, doubt, passion, and hope.

Includes a multitude of watercolor illustrations by the author.

You can burn witches
Into pillars of ash,
But history will remember
Who was holding the torch.

145 pages, ebook

Published August 23, 2025

About the author

Dana Lockhart is a little bit zany, a little bit all over the place, and honestly just happy to be here. She is the current president of the Hannibal Writers Guild in Hannibal, MO. She is fascinated by monsters and monster stories and exploring how they can be used to better understand what it means to be human. When writing poetry, she uses emotive language and imagery to try and evoke powerful feelings through her words.

Primarily, Dana writes urban fantasy, but also dabbles in poetry and other genres.

Reviews

[David Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to look into someone’s heart and your own this is a must read. It’s fantastic to just pick up flip through and pick a few to read or sit and read them all through. You feel the author in it. I love that! Buy it, read it!