"This collection of short stories really looks at the big questions of life, love, and personal identity in today's society. The author really has a way of putting up a mirror and having us look at ourselves, even in the worst light and with no Instagram filters."
Read MorePaul David Adkins is a veteran and poet who knows a war zone’s brutality, beauty, humanity, and odd moments of levity. Adkins’ straightforward language serves to disarm before the gut punch. This book anthology includes Flying Over Baghdad With Sylvia Plath and Operational Terms and Graphics.
Read MoreRead part two of our interview with multi-disciplinary artist and author, Fury Young on his book Meat & Milk.
Read MoreGreat series of videos from musician and author Kiki Sabater on her book Set Me On Fire Before I Blow; being creative and connecting with people; on being judged; on being a musician; and New York City.
Read MoreAmelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Angela Davis and Valentina Tereshkova and more!
Read MoreThe struggles, the slaughter, the fear, the boredom, the hatred, and the torching that war lays upon the human spirit.
Read More"Poets don’t usually write poetry. They become poetry. They inhale and exhale metaphors and alliterations like trees give us air. Fury Young is such a poet." – Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets
Read MoreReturn to Sender is a mixed-medium art collage and poetry book. The book, in the form of personal letters is broken into three sections. A mixed-medium book, full color, 58 image collages, more than 190 poems, Return to Sender is sending it out!
With clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail, Adkins adds an important voice capturing the mundanity, brutality, fear, boredom and banality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the importance of poetry is questioned, these poems provide an unequivocal answer.
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