WE THE MOURNERS JUNE RELEASE
I am thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of my newest collection of poetry, We The Mourners! I am currently planning a local book launch in June as well as a small tour in midsummer. Stay-tuned for more information! I am taking pre-orders! Order you copy today by emailing me: shieldsvanessa@gmail.com. I'll add your name… Continue reading WE THE MOURNERS JUNE RELEASE
POEM A DAY – May 11
Found another rejected piece...did another little edit. Happy Monday! Call It it’s nearly ten & she’s still working. relativity is pain’s dialect. when resilience slips in, she exhales an eight count & then the dizzying inhalation like a thick black hair on the chin of her day that she can’t feel growing & she knows… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 11
POEM A DAY – May 10
In a word… MysticalOverturesThreaded throughHearts: Mother as maestraExhilaratingly profound Resplendent
POEM A DAY – May 9
I continue to be inspired and awed and provoked by Allen Levi's novel Theo of Golden. This poem is inspired by a letter in the book about how newborns reach for faces, for connections in seeing and being seen... Find a face today choose the eyesdare to lock into awe-gaze within the silky coloursof the soul’swaiting windowsnod… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 9
VANESSA SHIELDS 