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Click To Add Title is a collection of 23 poems and 3 photos wrapped up into 38 pages of a 6x9 book. This is my first published work and all poetry and photography are my own. Enjoy!

Rainbow Elephant is a book of literary and spoken word poetry exploring facets of the life of Taria Person; a queer, African American woman. She recounts authentic experiences and memories from her journey that include a wide spectrum of topics—both beautiful and traumatic, such as family and heritage, depression and anxiety, thoughts of suicide, uplifting community and her own unique methods of coping.

Poetry that follows the intense romance between two inseparable lovers caught in the throws of addiction. Their ancestral trauma bonds them as they share their experience of transcending this physical reality, the body is only a container for the soul and our world a reflection of everything within.

How far would you go to learn the truth? Witches have been all but wiped out. The remnants of the once great covens are hidden, clinging to the last dregs of magic in a poisoned world. In the sanctuary of Umeå, a fledgling witch named Kanruo searches for the truth behind his family. But as secrets unveil themselves, will he be strong enough to change his fate?

In Shyne Nelson's first collection of poems, essays and short stories, Nelson make's visible, the pain and magic of growing up a black man in America. Telling the coming-of-age stories of his peers and chanting that black men are present, lovable and anything but invisible. His "aggressively honest" approach to storytelling is one that will make you laugh, cry, think, but most importantly relate. Tackling subjects as taboo as prostitution in the short story "The Client List" to presenting a different prospective of the age old infidelity issue in the poem "He exist, because of you." Nelson's debut is sure to start plenty of conversations. "Things Unsaid" addresses just that: The things ...