Numbered Days, Infinite Hope now available on Bottlecap Press! Numbered Days, Infinite Hope is a collection of poems that address the pain of our current political and social climate, confronting all we’ve lost, the injustices we’ve witnessed, the threat of erasure after so much progress. This collection also project the possibility of a better future through the enduring hope that words and collective action can bring about change. In a world shaken by division and uncertainty, this collection illustrates how the enduring strength of words can heal the human spirit, embracing the possibility of hope with every word.
She invites readers to walk through her pages with an open mind and willingness to read one of many infinite perspectives, and to believe that words will live on, that they will have the power to heal, resist, and inspire. Each poem is a war cry of resilience, a reminder that even in the darkest times, because words live on, so does hope.
Jenny’s chapbook invites readers to witness, remember, and rise; to let her words challenge, heal, and triumph, even when the world feels upside down and inside out. For anyone searching for light in dark times, she hopes her poems offer both solace and a call to action; inspiring readers to speak out, to stand up and help be a part of a better future because that’s how change begins, with every voice, every story, and every poem.
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My Heartshell is a collection of shards from my chipped and fractured childhood glued together into a mosaic like stained glass. Each poem is a remnant of memory sewn into a patchwork quilt, a white phantom like my name full of universal truths and traumas that I hope can help provide validation and healing to my readers through the power of words. These twenty-one poems address themes of childhood, identity, and personal growth. They capture the essence of what growing up was for me, including my search for identity and my journey toward self-acceptance, reflecting themes of love, loss, and the quest for belonging.
This is Not a Drill is a collection of eleven poems that shed light on the nuances of what it means to be a teacher, along with the doubts and struggles we experience, the things no one likes to talk about, including suicide, saving someone with two words, school shootings, and sometimes being a school mom for those without. The poems in this collection range from narrative to lyrical to all-out explosive with themes that include identity, doubt, depression, suicide ideation, and hours-long lockdowns that begin with ‘This is not a drill’ and end with ‘Nothing was found.’ I’d love for these poems to shed light on hard stuff teachers go through, but also how tough experiences draw us closer to our students and make us better teachers. I hope my readers walk away with a new perspective of what being a teacher really is, that essence that cannot be quantified, but is immensely more rewarding than any grades and state scores will ever be.
Rainbows & Unicorns. First, there’s the hurt. Then comes the healing. And the bridge from one to the other are stepping-stone words on a page. There are many truths and realities in any family, but one thing’s for sure. Ask each member of that family, and their truth will differ from yours; after all, truth is just perception, and not all of it is rainbows and unicorns. Memories and yesterday’s ghosts are shifty little creatures that love to mess with the muse and memoirist, but black and white and all the grays betwixt are real when they’re conjured and channeled from mind through hand to paper, so within these pages lie the harsh and heartfelt truths I’ve recalled in my nether state writing, where all the magic and mayhem happens. Rainbows & Unicorns is a collection of seventeen poems full of memories with universal truths and traumas that I hope can help provide validation and healing to my readers through the power of words.
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