Syd Stewart has climbed the summit of hope, fallen in the gorge of despair and emerged a Poet. Her words are clear, strong, real. Her work shines—will lead hearts home.
—Bruce Isaacson, First Poet Laureate of Clark County, Nevada
Clark, the anthology was published by Zeitgeist Press, a local imprint with more than 100 titles. It was initiated by the Clark County Poet Laureate, Bruce Isaacson, and done in partnership with Poetry Promise, Inc. Clark is a 280 page paperback with work by 95 Clark County writers and art by another dozen.
A Rock and a Hard Place establishes Syd Stewart as a pioneering voice of a complex generation. This collection of pieces is an intimate illustration of perseverance and a catalyst for the motivation to identify and walk in your purpose. Her voice is a unique combination of the revolutionary, raw genius of Tupac Shakur balanced with the wisdom and spirituality of Maya Angelou. Take a thought-provoking, soul-stirring, rhythmically engaging journey into the naked truth of abuse, the ignored reality of societal injustice, the fierceness of love and above all the universal reasons we all have to press on.
His Rib is a collection of poems, stories and essays about the fallible woman, the sensitive girl-child and the fearless warrior, His Rib, offers an inside look at her story. The written works featured in this project includes women from both the literary field and the performance poetry circuit, creating a symbiotic kinship between the two art forms. After combing several continents, the women within these pages were found scribing folk tales in California, sonnets in New York, producing prose in London and breaking stereotypes with each stanza in Colorado, Texas and Canada. The result, a quilt weaved perfectly of compassion, self-respect, discipline, lust and hunger. Enjoy the crack and thunder of His Rib.
Edited by Mahogany L. Browne Foreword by Patricia Smith
America at the Millenium is an athology of the best poems and poets from the 20th Century