

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
There is something to be admired about stripping back poetry to its raw core, using imagery crafted with purposeful metaphors, not meant to distract from the lack of depth or need to shock. The content...The rawness...The realness stands on its own merit woven like a tapestry of life, each pulled thread, small imperfection, discoloration, and hole part of each thread stitched together to create something bigger. There were so many stand out moments from this collection but re


Review of the witch doesn't burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace
Rating: 4 Stars- First let me say that if you decide to dive into this one, take the trigger warnings seriously. That said, this is why I love poetry! Amanda Lovelace bends words creating content that is sharp, meticulously pointed, and hard. This story is about being a woman, no... no it is about being women together and individually. It is about writing our own stories and not allowing history or men to edit or eclipse who we are together or individually. Lovelace delves in


A Review of the princess saves herself in this one By Amanda Lovelace
Rating: 4 stars Amanda Lovelace weaves a journey through devastation, heartache, self hate, love, becoming the hero of her own story and so much more. Page 177 "write the story. push your hands into the dirtiest parts of yourself. take the rot & decay & turn it into nourishment & life. water it & sing to it & show it sunlight grow a beautiful garden from your aching & teach yourself how to thrive from it. write your story." Lovelace collects words in the most natural way by l