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FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Cleavage by Wendy Mannis Scher

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This debut collection Cleavage explores the breast cancer journey through diagnosis and treatment as the world beyond the speaker’s own experience endures a pandemic, a climate crisis and other ongoing challenges. The collection’s title, Cleavage, refers to the literal cleavage of a bi-lateral mastectomy as well as the investigation into what humans hold on to and/or resist releasing when they are challenged physically and emotionally. Using poetic forms including pantoum, sonnet, prose poem, free verse, golden shovel, erasure, haibun, triolet, sestina, and cento, the collection attempts to reflect the multi-faceted perspectives on illness and mortality. #poetry #breastcancer #illness #womenshealth

Native to no particular place, Wendy Mannis Scher was born in Boston and spent her childhood and adolescence along the coastlines of Wales, Delaware, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Maryland before moving to the landlocked heights of Colorado. She has a BA in English Literature from Smith College, a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska/Anchorage. Currently, Wendy lives with her family in a canyon west of Boulder, Colorado. @wmscher @PoetryStash @wmscher.bsky.social

PRAISE:

Since I first found delight in Wendy Scher‘s compelling chapbook, Fault, I have been anticipating her debut collection, and Cleavage does not disappoint. Scher’s Cleavage chronicles one woman’s cancer diagnosis, treatment, and years in the after, where the ephemeral, the beautiful, and the difficult weave together a landscape that extends beyond the human-made realm, and the speaker encourages us to recognize the necessity of even “ribbons of grass.” Scher’s exquisite use of poetic forms — from the sonnet, sestina, and burning haibun to the cento and the pantoum — deepens the resonance of her chosen subjects, displaying a keen sense of design and formal adroitness. Scher’s poetry allows us to see and feel the full breadth of our tender existences and shared environments. Narrative and lyrical, forthright and subtle, imagistic and reflective, the poems in Cleavage are rich and sonorous. This is a collection for which I am grateful.
–Tara Ballard, author of��House of the Night Watch

Wendy Scher’s Cleavage embodies a body in transformation. Through odes, prayers, postcards, etymological examinations, excisions, and reconfigurations, Scher’s poems navigate the negative capability of being in the moment whilst soaring above it.
–Lisa Birman, author of How To Walk Away

Wendy Scher’s poems navigate illness with such fortitude that the reader discovers even devastation can be molded into a new story. Alive with grace and resourcefulness, Scher’s poetry variously frames her cancer experience as an episode of Jeopardy, a postcard from her journey, or with the delicate precision of haiku. Cleavage tells a personal story, but that story’s “thrum-rush” pulses into the wonder and perplexities of a constantly enlarging world. Here, grief shares its bond with all living things, and, in so doing, brings healing.
–Elizabeth Robinson, author of Vulnerability Index

In her book Cleavage, Wendy Scher gives us poems of fierce clarity. She pinpoints moments of beauty and humor, even in wrestling with the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Scher speaks of “psalms for dark times,” and she delivers those and so much more in this visionary and deeply moving collection.
–Zack Rogow, author of Irreverent Litanies and Hugging My Father’s Ghost

Cleavage cuts through the trope of the “patient patient.” Scher’s poems are bold in their honesty and form, in their vulnerability alongside clinical diction. Hope exists despite sickness. Scars (literal and figurative) exist despite healing. “[E]ven numb, you feel the difference.”
–Lisa Stice, author of Letters from Conflict

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Check out this book review of Marie Scarles’ new book THE CATASTROPHES (Finishing Line Press):

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Congratulations! Mother Minotaur by Sarah Ahrens (Finishing Line Press)is featured this month on CLMP’S Disability Pride Month 2026: Recommendations for Booksellers list: https://t.co/P4stfxsXwC #recommended #books #pride #disability

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: As My Father Lay Dying by Jessica Weyer-Bentley

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As My Father Lay Dying is a love letter in poems of grief for a father whose life was taken so tragically young. The work gives an in depth look of a visceral reckoning of a daughter with profound loss. The chapbook reveals the raw emotion of an individual as they try to navigate the world through grief’s lens. The poetry within these pages is a snapshot of what 12,000 families a year endure when they lose a loved one to impaired driving crashes. #poetry, #loss, #grief, #humanity, #impaireddriving, #distracteddriving

Jessica Weyer Bentley is an author and Poet. Her first collection of poetry, Crimson Sunshine, was published in May 2020 by AlyBlue Media. Her second book of poetry, Down Below Where the Canary Sings, was published May 2023 by Sage Owl Publishing. She has contributed work to several publications for the Award-Winning Book Series, Grief Diaries, including Poetry and Prose, and Hit by a Drunk Driver. Jessica’s work has been anthologized in Women Speak Vol. 6 (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), Summer Gallery of Shoes (Highland Park Poetry), Common Threads 2020 Edition (Ohio Poetry Association), Appalachian Witness Volume 24 and Unmasked Volume 25 (Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel), Pegasus (Kentucky Poets Society), Lotholeran Journal, several and Made and Dream (Of Rust and Glass) 2021and online blogs including Global Poemic, Alien Buddha, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Fevers of the Mind Poetry Showcase 2022 and was a 2022 Wolfpack Poetry Contributor. She is the Former Student Contest Chair for the Ohio Poetry Association. Jessica was recently chosen as a 2024 Ohioana Author. She currently resides in Northwest Ohio.

PRAISE:

When I first had an opportunity to read these poems, it was the week after my biological father’s death, the day after his graveside service. Though I am nearly sixty years old and Jessica Weyer Bentley was only a child when she lost her father, I find in her chapbook, As My Father Lay Dying, a connection, a path forward through shared grief, a way of honoring the lost by one’s own persistence in living, and a vital reminder of the life-saving power of poetic expression.
–John Burroughs, U.S. Beat Poet Laureate (2022-2023)

Jessica Weyer Bentley’s As My Father Lay Dying is a searing, luminous journey through grief, memory, and resilience—poems forged from tragedy that transform loss into connection, healing, and enduring love.. Drawing on the sudden, life-altering loss of her father to a drunk driving crash, Bentley weaves intimate moments, vivid imagery, and raw emotional truth into verse that both mourns and celebrates. Her words become a bridge—spanning decades, carrying the weight of absence, and finding light in unexpected places. This collection is not only a tribute to a father lost too soon, but also an offering of solidarity to anyone navigating the long shadow of grief. Her work has also graced Fevers of the Mind, where I’ve had the privilege to host pieces like “Blue Devil Compulsion,” “Mae,” “Archer Park,” “King Roosevelt the Healer,” “Bridegroom Estuary,” and “Transience of the Empath.” Your voice there has added immense depth and beauty—thank you, Jessica.    
–David L. O’Nan

Jessica Weyer Bentley’s poetry is a masterclass in authenticity—skillfully crafted, emotionally stirring, and genuinely heartfelt. After reading her complete body of work, it becomes unmistakably clear that her voice is not only unique but deeply resonant. Jessica’s poetic prose is fresh and evocative, painting vivid images that linger long after the final page.
–Brian R. Hall, Author of Mountain Night Owl Tales, Legendary Kingdoms of Attera, A Tale of Two Miyagis

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A child of 15, now middle-aged, races toward destruction in a search for joy on his own terms. Linnea Harper’s singular narrative of her son’s addiction, of loss, grief, endurance and flickering hope, is made universal in the exquisite language of the Junkie Boy poems. While evoking the collective voice of all who have tried to keep their children safe, found they could not, and had to let go, Harper’s deeply affecting narrative also echoes the frequently unheard cries of addicts whose desperate flight reveals no safe place to land. This epidemic is not over. We need to listen. #motherhood, #addiction, #mentalillness, #grief, #family, dysfunction, homelessness, poetry

Linnea Harper writes poems on the Oregon coast, where the climate is friendly and the dress code is Wear Something. When her first child, now 48, left home at 15 in search of more freedom and better drugs, Harper reluctantly joined the millions of other mothers and families who struggle to make peace with themselves and the children who choose “freedom” over family, but find that their choices ultimately trap them in sordid lives and chemical cravings they cannot escape. Avoiding shame, blame, wallowing, and easy answers, Harper’s poems can open hearts, stir feelings, and start conversations.

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A Poem by Linnea Wortham Harper

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For centuries, reports have circulated of mysterious lights floating above the valley that stretches beneath Brown Mountain in western North Carolina. Sightings and theories persisted over the decades even as skeptics searched for scientific reasons to explain away the phenomenon. These lights provide the backdrop for the poems in Brown Mountain Lights, demonstrating that even when life is at its most challenging, we can continue to find mystery and beauty all around us. #poetry #UFO #lights #mystery #BrownMountain

Mark Steudel works in fundraising for an environmental nonprofit. He currently lives in the Sandhills region of central North Carolina with his longtime girlfriend and two charismatic huskies. He has had poetry published in the Atlanta Review, Poetry East, Slipstream, San Pedro River Review, the Banyan Review, and others. You can find him on Instagram: @mark.steudel.poet.

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New from Finishing Line Press: Sea Legs by Johnny Horton

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Johnny Horton’s debut collection, Sea Legs, asks us to reflect on the ways we learn to survive in an unsteady and often unsafe world. Moving through subjects like gun violence, family trauma, religious existentialism, or fleeting romance, the poems question whether we construct the myth of ourselves through lived experience and hardship, or if who we are is largely inherited, shaped by forces beyond our control. The associative nature of Horton’s poetry pulls you through a range of unexpected connections, moving from naturalist facts like “The paper nautilus loses his penis while making love,” to irreverent moments, like psychoanalyzing Julius Caesar’s Oedipal dreams or pointing out the drag show on display in the Sistine Chapel. Across twenty-three poems, Horton offers a mind in flux, never fully certain of what it believes. The collection’s underlying angst is tempered by his exploration of Roman antiquity, Greek mythology, American pop culture, and science. By the end of Sea Legs, you come away with a heightened awareness of the natural world, deeper empathy for human struggle, and a sharper sense of how unstable the idea of the self can be. #poetry #survival #science #popculture #mythology

 Horton teaches English at Seattle Central College. He’s taught creative writing at Richard Hugo House and in Rome. He also teaches classical literature to veterans. He’s published poems in City Arts Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Willow Springs, Los Angeles Review and Horsethief. He’s received a Washington Artist Trust GAP grant and his poetry manuscript has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Anthony Hecht Prize. He lives in Seattle where he walks his dog and writes essays about higher education for Crosscut.

PRAISE:

The world as filtered through Horton’s deep understanding of history is a fabulous place, and these poems are wonderful in their revelations. The poems in Sea Legs pull off that wondrous feat of creating a portrait of a brain in action. In these inventive, funny, elegant poems, a portrait of a self-aware thinker emerges, the poet in the world, making associations of myth and history and memory, weaving them into his poems in ways that reveal connections that are both unexpected, and, once made, instantly recognizable.
–Rebecca Aronson, author of Anchor, winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry and the Philosophical Society of Texas Poetry Award

With its sly wit and keen perception, Sea Legs makes a fine sauce for tenderness as well as grief, offering poems that disarm, reveal, and steady the heart with unpretentious elegance.
–Randy Sue Coburn, author of Owl Island

Opening Sea Legs is like entering a cathedral in a foreign country: an immediate sense of familiarity and shelter you forgot you had. In pages where ancient meets modern, where travelers, locals, devotees, and heretics all gather, Horton’s work is novelty that remains novelty. It invites you to traverse centuries, laugh at modernity, and jump over some dire ‘No Trespassing’ signs, all with a sigh of relief.
–Sophia Bruscato, author of Primeira Pessoa

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: delivering a body by Tianee Harris
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delivering a body is a visceral poetry collection exploring grief after miscarriage and abortion, where womanhood, motherhood, sex, and survival converge. Moving through ritual, labor, intimacy, and the natural world, these poems trace the body’s attempt to make meaning in the wake of loss and identity rupture. At its core, the collection examines acceptance, spiritual reorientation, and what forgiveness can become when it is shaped not by religious doctrine, but by lived experience. Written in resistance to silence, delivering a body gives voice to the grief so often carried privately — offering recognition, witness, and return. #grief #body #womanhood #motherhood #poetry

Tianee Harris is a Brooklyn-born poet, writer, yoga teacher, and co-host of an astrological self-development podcast. Her work explores grief, womanhood, embodiment, and spiritual reckoning after loss. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she balances motherhood, podcasting, teaching, and the ongoing labor of becoming. She believes that art is not only expression, but responsibility, a bridge between what was survived and what is still unfolding.

PRAISE:

“Exploring themes of identity, grief and resilience with fierce intellect and gritty hope, delivering a body asks: in a world that hands women shame and suffering, how do we hang on to our hearts? What does it mean to forgive when the body never forgets? How did we pick up all this pain, and how might we set it down?”
–Victoria Hutchins, author of Make Believe: Poems for Hoping Again

delivering a body is what happens when our grief starts talking back. Tianee Harris writes like a woman who has seen God in a wound and stuck around long enough to give her a name. Her poems move effortlessly through loss, rage, and resurrection with the kind of clarity that only comes from surviving. Reading this book felt like my own body remembering things I did not have the words to describe yet.”
–Lyn Patterson, author of  The Postcards I Never Sent and  Whisperings of the Wild and Wilting
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Decidedly Uncertain, Kelly White Arnold‘s debut chapbook, navigates the aftermath of family trauma, love, loss, and self-acceptance. From holding the hand of a dying loved one to choosing a wedding dress for a second marriage or savoring the simplicity of a summer day at the coast, these poems commemorate the moments that define our becoming. #poetry #love #grief #memory #life family motherhood marriage

Kelly White Arnold (she/her) is a mom, wife, teacher, and lover of yoga. She lives in the North Carolina Piedmont with two beloved humans and one unhinged cat, but dreams of mountains beneath her feet. Decidedly Uncertain is her first chapbook. Sporadically online @KArnoldTeaches.

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A Poem by Kelly White Arnold
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This debut collection of poems explores themes of love, grief and one family coming to terms with a wife and mother’s cancer. From love at first sight to his wife’s passing, follow the author and his family as they continue to live life, despite the uncertainties of this progressive disease. Through the brevity of Cinquans, the imagery of a Haibun and the beauty of a Nonet, the author says much with these minimalist formats. This book will resonate with readers who have felt the heartache and pain of caring for a loved one.#griefpoetry #griefandloss #griefandlosssupport #cancer #cancerjourney poets poetry

Monty Mittleman retired from the Illinois Department of Corrections and is a licensed EMT. He has an MPA from San Diego State University and a BS in Criminal Justice from Illinois State University. This collection is part love letter and a story about one family and cancer. Instagram: @montymittleman, Facebook: Monty mittleman poet @MontyMittleman

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A Poem by Monty Mittleman
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Through the voice of a single public school teacher trying to make rent in a trendy urban neighborhood, The Regulars delivers late night poems that might feel like tuning your dial back to an impetuous time of sweet static, where nostalgia is savored cold from the box the morning after. #Open Mic, #GenX, #Nightlife, #Norfolk,VA, #Ghent, Bartender, Poetry, CogansInstantArt, 1990s

Tracy Rice Weber is a poet and writing coach for Second Helping Studio who lives in Coastal VA with her husband, sons, two cats, and a dog. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University in 2021, has a full-length collection of poetry out with St. Julian’s Press [TOOLS & ORNAMENTS, 2023] and a chapbook with Finishing Line Press [ALL THAT KEEPS ME, 2021]. Rice Weber currently holds an adjunct position in the English Department at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA where she also facilitates a poetry workshop with their LifeLong Learning Society. @tracyriceweber

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Cassandra On The Spectrum Visions From A Neon Mind by Carole Johnston

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Cassandra On The Spectrum is a celebration of neurodiversity, honoring the infinitely possible colors of the human mind. Like many adults who are diagnosed with autism, Carole Johnston experienced a rush of enlightenment, realizing the reasons for her life as an outsider, who loves being outside the norm, living inside her own, unique vision. These poems delve deep into the well of experience and image. They invite the reader to see as the poet sees, to understand what she, has often struggled to explain to others, and to see how angst and anger transform to joy. Like Cassandra, a seer in Ancient Greek Mythology, the poet shares pain of being misunderstood and she shares excitement of finally understanding herself, always writing poems in her own imagist style. #imagistpoetry #neurodivergence #autismappreciation #sensoryprocessingdisorder
Carole Johnston is an imagist poet who writes, primarily, Japanese short form poetry, ( haiku and tanka.) She has published poems in numerous journals including the prestigious, Cattails, Ribbons, and Frog Pond. Her publications also include five books of poetry, Journeys: Getting Lost – Chapbook – Finishing Line Press, Manic Dawn – Wildflower Poetry Press, Purple Ink: A Childhood in Tanka – Finishing Line Press, Midnight Butterfly and Other Juxtapositions – Alien Buddha Press. Secret Words: A Philosophy In Crayon – Alien Buddha Press. Before retiring, Carole taught in the Literary Arts program at the School for The Creative and Performing Arts at Lafayette High School, in Lexington, Kentucky. Currently, she teaches poetry writing to children at the Carnegie Center for Literacy, in Lexington. Her poems can also be found on Facebook

PRAISE:

Cassandra on the Spectrum: Visions From a Neon Mind by Carole Johnston is a dazzling and brilliant exploration of the neurodivergent experience, a kaleidoscopic journey through perception, imagination, and the poetry of being. This collection does not speak only to the neurodivergent; it invites every reader to experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, to see through a prism of wonder, and to embrace the power of words as a lifeline, a map, and a celebration of the self. Johnston’s Cassandra on the Spectrum is a masterful ode to creativity, resilience, and the luminous beauty of difference.
–Cristina Crocker Escribano is a teacher and writer.

Carole Johnston’s Cassandra on the Spectrum is a radiant testament to what it means to live, perceive, and create with a “neon mind.” These poems shimmer with synesthesia, alchemy, and haunting beauty, unmasking both the brilliance and the vulnerability of a neurodivergent life. Johnston writes with fierce honesty and luminous imagery, guiding us through visions where language itself transforms into color, sound, and pulse. This is more than a collection of poems—it is a spectrum of experience, a prism refracting the raw intensity of being alive and being different. Johnston has given us a book that sees the world in hues we too often overlook, and in doing so, teaches us how to notice, to marvel, and to believe.
–Whitnee Coy,

See how vivid colors mingle and merge and create wondrous visions, listen as ancient artists chant holy mantras and draw figures onto dark walls, feel the penetrating, lonely ache when no one understands, and experience all of this and more through the vision of a brilliant poet whose language and artistry lead us into a world where we can enter the extraordinary diversity and creativity of the human mind. Most importantly, in the end, we realize that we have seen ourselves and our connectedness with myriad worlds that are, in truth, our own. Such is the magic of Johnston’s poetry.
–Jonel Sallee is a teacher and poet. Her published works include academic papers and collections of poetry, including In Such Wonder.

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FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Of Angels: Poems & Translations by Wally Swist

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Angels used to appear in literary works with at least moderate frequency. However, in our modern, often immoderately jaded society, angels aren’t considered at all. In a sublime presentation, and a balance of original work and translations carefully considered by the author, Of Angels is evidence that these heavenly creatures, who are not born and do not die, exist. However, different from UFOs, angels are of both the real stuff and divine nature. Leonard Cohen wrote: “When we don’t pray to the angels/ the angels don’t pray for us.” Perhaps just reading these poems at least resemble acts of prayer. Certainly they are ritualized devotions that exhort the divine in real ways in which the everyday offers an opportunity to find the numinous in the commonplace, and before we realize that we might chance to see one, “they disappear, and in our astonishment,/ in as much as when they appear,/ they vanish, and instill within us their/ magnitude.” #Angels #poetry #translation

Author of more than forty collections of poetry and prose, Wally Swist’s new books include Aperture (Kelsay Books), poems regarding caregiving his spouse through Alzheimer’s, and If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream: Selected Translations from Rilke’s Book of Hours (Finishing Line Press). Poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Anomaly, Chicago Quarterly Review, Commonweal, Healing Muse, Image Journal, Montreal Review, North American Review, Pensive, Poetry London, Rattle, and Your Impossible Voice. Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) was selected by Yuseff Komunyakaa as co-winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition.  He was also the winner of the Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Prize in 2018 for A Bird Who Seems to Know Me. Readings of Swist’s poems are archived on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and NPR. Books of nonfiction include Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (Brooklyn, NY:  The Operating System, 2018) and On Beauty: Essays, Reviews, Fiction, and Plays (New York & Lisbon: Adelaide Books, 2018). Wild Rose Bush: The Life of Mary and Other Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke was selected as an honorable mention in the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation sponsored by Green Linden Press. Bainbridge Island Press published his most recent collection of his poetry, Discovering What to Say (2025).

PRAISE:

This gem of a book is replete with angelic sightings and soundings. Wally Swist’s perceptive and lyrical phrasing allows these poems to shine with vision and insight – at times in puzzlement and surprise, at other times, comfort and contemplation. Personal angelic encounters mix with angels of particular place and period; additionally Swist’s poetic voice generously hosts translated work by poets such as Hesse, Lorca, and especially Rilke. Throughout, angels serve as touchstones for our human experiences: ‘angels are the enablers’ of spiritual and creative flourishing (‘of angels’), and as readers, we come to understand how an angel’s ‘light within/ also rises inside you’ (‘Baccarat Angel’).
–Sarah Law, Editor of The Amethyst Review (U.K.), and the author of the historical novel Sketches from Heaven, a 2023 Illuminations Silver Medal Award winner.

The image that leaps out to me on reading Wally Swist’s Of Angels: Poems & Translations is that of an angel “gliding into a seam of the air.” These poems and translations render angelic manifestation as something that close—not merely a sacred symbol, but a living point of communion and revelation. Through a range of voices, languages, and registers, we listen for those moments of transmission and transfixion that become for author and reader alike “touchstones to our better, or best, selves.”
–Michael Centore, Editor, Today’s American Catholic

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Love Breaks is not just about heartbreak. It is also about healing, growth and tenderness as it confirms why we risk it all sometimes when nothing surpasses the gifts we receive through love. It chronicles the love life of a woman who attaches herself too quickly sometimes and without abandon to puppies, first dates, friends, and on occasion, even strangers. All the while, her most important relationship is with her beautiful, brilliant child who claws fiercely at love and normalcy, stepping off ledges literally and figuratively on a daily basis then makes accusations that someone should have caught her. Lynn Ciesielski takes you on a dark journey through Buffalo’s grittiest alleys but offers a guiding arm to lead you back to sunshine when you’ve decided you’ve seen enough. #poetry #love #loss #addiction #mental health growth beauty sadness motherhood

Lynn Ciesielski’s work has been published in Nerve Cowboy, Slipstream, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Main Street Rag, BlazeVox, and a variety of other periodicals. Her first chapbook titled, I Speak in Tongues was published by Foothills (2012) and her first collection titled Two Legs Toward Liverpool was published by Main Street Rag (2015). Lynn also has a new chapbook titled My Spanglish Es Impecable with Kelsay Books (2025). @lynn.ciesielski