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Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

Mary Oliver

Sep 9 - Oct 8
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A curated compendium of poetry and prose from the award-winning poet Mary Oliver, including the book-length masterpiece The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, andessays from Long Life—with a foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz.

For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's breathtaking poetry of touch and transcendence, as well as for those coming to her words for the first time, Little Alleluias is a revelation.

These works observe, search, pause, astonish, and give thanks to both love and the natural world. In constant conversation with the sublime, (i.e. "Are you afraid? / Somewhere a thousand swans are flying / through winter's worst storm."), Oliver has the rare skill of rendering her poems bring movement to stillness, and people to the Earth, themselves, and each other. Her essays declare her heart and her home, too, alongside thoughts on Wordsworth, Emerson, and Hawthorne—the odes and elegies of Provincetown's resident poet.

On each page, Mary Oliver invites us to walk through her minutes, her moments, and revere the light and dark and rainbowed clothes of world alongside her. With three distinct books collected in one volume for the first time, Little Alleluias asks what passes and what persists, and offers readers the peace that every life deserves.

“Hers is a purposeful language, one that looks not just with attention but with sensual intention, and though awestruck, seeks to hold, even briefly, the unknowns of the energies that make any life. Little alleluias, she called her writings. Not meant to define but to praise, to rejoice in the maker and what has been made, to dare be heard as a whisper or a shout in this immense world.”—Natalie Diaz, in her Foreword

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Letters in Silence: The Lost Letters of James King Brought to Light by Omari Vale

Omari Vale

Sep 11 - Oct 8
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What if every love letter you never sent was a scripture?
What if silence itself could bleed?

Letters in The Lost Letters of James King Brought to Light by Omari Vale is not a book of polished poems or staged performances. It is the raw, unfiltered ruin of a man who carried brilliance and brokenness in the same body.

These are the lost letters of James King — fragments of worship, grief, hunger, rage, and unbearable tenderness — unearthed and revealed by Omari Vale. They are confessions written in the dark, torn from notebooks and memory, where radiance becomes fracture, wounds become scripture, and silence becomes a cathedral of death.

Here, love is not safe. It is ruin. It is altar. It is damnation disguised as devotion. And yet, within these pages, there is the sacred proof that to feel deeply — even to bleed endlessly — is to still be alive.

The Four Phases of Love and Silence

The Radiance: first love, first worship, the trembling joy of being seen.

The Cracks: the small fractures, the pauses, the distance that grows heavier than words.

The Wounds: betrayal, rage, silence as coffin, silence as battlefield.

The Echoes: the aftermath, the ghost letters, the confessions never sent.

Each part is not arranged chronologically, but emotionally. Together they create a map of what it means to love so hard it hollows you out.

For readers of Heavy Is the Crown, these letters are more than poetry. They are the marrow of James King himself — the haunted voice beneath the brilliance, the ruin behind the crown. They reveal not just a man, but a one written in hunger, silence, and fire.

Why This Book Matters
For those who have followed the lineage of Black confessional poetry — from Hughes to Baraka, from Sonia Sanchez to Jericho Brown — Letters in Silence joins that canon with a voice that is unrelenting in its honesty. James King does not polish his pain into artifice; he bleeds it. And Omari Vale does not soften the edges; he brings them into the light, jagged and unhealed.

For every reader who has ever begged an unanswered silence, buried a love that refused to stay, or carried grief so heavy it felt biblical — Letters in Silence will not save you.

But it will make you feel seen.

Poetry
Romance

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Rivers of Living Water

Charna Ainsworth

Oct 2 - Oct 16
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Is there power that comes from surrendering your life to God? Can you receive supernatural healing from sickness? What is God’s abundant provision and how do you experience it? These questions prompted Charna Ainsworth to begin searching for the truth. What she learned gave her a burning desire to know more about the Holy Spirit.
After receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, she was inspired to write Christian poetry. Contained within these pages, you will find poems, illustrations, and photography about a variety of subjects. Each word was written with a simple desire- inspire you to seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Reading, Rivers of Living Water, will give you a thirst for the living water Jesus spoke about in John 7:38. Below is a poem from this collection,
Before (You Speak)

When you have a grateful soul
you'll have everything you need
to live a beautiful life
and fulfill your destiny.
The power is in your tongue...
You'll have what you say!
To live a grateful life
you must speak thankfulness
each and every day.

Inspiring and edifying, this collection of Christian poetry, Rivers of Living Water, is full of discernment into the unseen spiritual world. Each poem was penned to enrich your understanding and create a longing for God. Charna Ainsworth goes deep into the unique mysteries of Christianity while addressing some of the amazing gifts of the Holy Spirit. An exceptional thought-provoking it leaves readers thirsty for more. More of what, you ask? Read it now to find out.

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Poetry

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The Copywriter

Daniel Poppick

Sep 17 - Oct 17
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A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.

It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can’t dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s new twenty-four-year-old CEO, who has more charisma than work experience, the growing distance between D__ and his longtime girlfriend, or a mounting sense of unreality in the wake of the first delirious year of the Trump administration, there’s a sense that things are speeding towards collapse—and that they’ve perhaps been unraveling for some time.

Borne along on these ambivalent straits, D__ begins to keep a notebook, filling it with dreams, scenes from his own life, emails, and broadly-defined moments, both real and fictional, that he calls parables—attempts to learn from the underlying schedule of the universe, some music of the spheres that, if heard correctly, might help him finally understand his life, his art, and labor. Unfurling over the course of two years, season by season, The Copywriter circles a series of perennial questions, capturing in the process the unique absurdism of the gone-but-not-forgotten era of office culture between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 How should an artist balance a job and life when art doesn’t fit into either category? How does one find meaning in work that is stubbornly, uncannily, comically meaningless? Does one need to find meaning in one’s labor at all? What concessions do we make for the sake of a paycheck? What does all of this do to our art, and our souls?

Utterly original and lyrically beautiful, burrowing deep into contemporary disaffection without falling under its spell, The Copywriter is a comic story in the vein of Kafka’s Jewish mysticism, following the absurd paths that office work can take us on, and the subtle ways in which seemingly mindless labor can determine our fate.

Literary fiction
Poetry

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soma synthesis: poems by sean g. meggeson

Sean G. Meggeson

Oct 3 - Oct 18
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The poems in Sean G. Meggeson’s soma synthesis pull language apart and reassemble it through art, memory, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and mythology. They punctuate thoughts and memories, surfing through channels, until an undeniable music emerges—like listening to overlapping conversations spilling out from another room, but as the voices build, the whole of it crashes over the reader in sonic waves. Here, meaning transforms into a sensory and associative experience. In a stream of unconsciousness, the reader is swept headfirst through a gritty, gin-soaked dreamscape of Toronto that hums with a haunting, creative energy—equal parts shattered homage to the life of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and Meggeson’s personal memoir of crisis. In this chapbook, Sean G. Meggeson—winner of the 2024 League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award—synthesizes mind with body, past with present, and the unspoken with song.

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