Sappho's Corner Solo Poets Series

The Finley Human Experience

Authored by Monique Finley, Edited by Beth Mitchum

The Finley Human Experience

The Finley Human Experience

Authored by Monique Finley, Edited by Beth Mitchum

List Price: $13.95

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 

Black & White on Cream paper

156 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1483940632 

ISBN-10: 1483940632

BISAC: Poetry / Gay & Lesbian

Oscillate through The Finley Human Experience and explore the contours of lesbian love, feminist politics, and American dreams. Curl up with a romantic remarking on the wonders of her lover’s scent. Discover an angry activist raging at the state of a nation on the brink of complete destitution. Cheer on the dragon as an ironic bard pits corporate cronyism versus knightly virtue. Bow your head and weep for lost loved ones as a melancholy dramatist contemplates mortality. Raise your voice with Finley as she protests conformity. And wonder if, perhaps, this poet isn’t bipolar when she threatens you with a wooden spoon.

Out of the Darkness

Authored by Jin Robinson, Edited by Beth Mitchum

List Price: $12.95

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 
Black & White on Cream paper
134 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1466417342
ISBN-10: 146641734X
BISAC: Poetry / General

Poetry by a woman who has lived through more hell on earth than most people can imagine, and yet has emerged from horrible darkness into a better space. Although she still deals with dyslexia and dissociative identity disorder, the poet uses her poetry and a sense of humour to cope. She journeyed from S. Africa to England. Her poetry, which chronicles years of daily trials, inspires hope for those with the most difficult challenges life can throw at us.

Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing: Sappho's Corner Solo Poets Series, Volume 1

Authored by Beth Mitchum

List Price: $15.95

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 
Black & White on Cream paper
212 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1468198102

ISBN-10: 1468198106
BISAC: Poetry / American / General

Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing is a collection of original poems by author, poet, and singer/songwriter, Beth Mitchum. This collection includes many love poems found in her first poetry collection, bethwor(l)ds: 20 years of poetry, as well as dozens of totally new poems that were either missed in the first collection or have been written since the publication of her first book. All the poems here fall under the themes of love found, love lost, or inner longing. Beth Mitchum's poetry is very readable even to the person who never thought they understood or cared to read poetry. She hopes that you will discover a hidden love for poetry, a genre she considers to be micro short stories, both true and fictional. For her the point of poetry is to tell a story, or paint a picture in your mind, in as few words as necessary to achieve that task. She sometimes uses Haiku to condense her own poems into even smaller packages. A story, if told well, doesn't have to be 1000 pages or even 1000 words long.

Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing was a 2013 Goldie Award Winner.