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How do you cope with losing someone you love?

Sojourn: Transcending Seasons explores the journey of the soul as expressed by brother and sister, Karuna Mistry and Pratibha Savani. Together, they take the reader through their entwined paths of experiencing grief while caring for their beloved dying mother; bringing uplifting reflection, wisdom and spiritual growth.

Their journey arches from a storming summer to a wintry wisp; eight chapters of revealing thoughts and valuable insights leading into how the writers overcame darkness. Containing almost 100 individually arranged poems – including prose, rhyme and visual – the creative siblings also include their own impressive artwork.

Along the way, they are joined by guest poets, Jill Sharon Kimmelman, Sarfraz Ahmed, and Zaneta Varnado Johns, who offer insights from their own faith traditions. These offerings complement and consolidate the inescapable situation in facing the ultimate end.

With an emotionally moving timeline, an array of contrasting conspicuous and subtle themes, this deeply thoughtful compilation combines layers of poetry and art in a unique fashion, making Sojourn an original read and a precious gift to the world.

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Pratibha Savani

Pratibha Savani is a UK poet, artist and an Ambassador for the Garden of Neuro. She first began writing as a student struggling with eczema, releasing her debut book, “Tangles + Knots” in October 2020. It uniquely combines her art and writing with mindfulness and wellbeing themes and was featured in the August 2021 ‘Garden of Neuro Poetry Book Club.’ Her black and white art became the inspiration for the anthology series, “A Safe and Brave Space” by adding mindfulness colouring and has contributed towards Volumes 1 (2021), 2 (2022) and 3 (2024).

Since 2021, over 65 poems and 14 art pieces have been published in over fifty literary publications including anthologies with McKinley Publishing Hub, Prolific Pulse Press LLC, Ravens Quoth Press, Open Door Poetry Magazine and Austur, to name a few. Wellbeing projects continued through ‘What Matters Journal,’ ‘Rethink Your Mind’ and other charity anthologies.

Pratibha has delivered online art workshops and designed book covers. She loves the freedom to scribble in her sketchbook without lines or rules and is inspired by the cosmos, nature and spirituality. She also enjoys yoga, science fiction and creative fun with her daughter. Future projects are to create a mindfulness book, children’s book and further poetry books. Find her inventive expressions on:

Instagram and Facebook: @pratibhapoetryart

Karuna Mistry

Following the death of his mother, Karuna Mistry suddenly woke up to poetry – quite literally. With the benefit of his sister already established in poetry circles and with her encouragement, he was easily able to find submission calls.

Over his first year of creative writing, much to his surprise, he completed over 200 pieces and soon had his poetry published in various anthologies including Austur, McKinley Publishing Hub, Open Door Magazine, and Sweetycat Press. Over his first two years of identifying as a poet, Karuna has published over 60 poems in more than 40 anthologies, occasionally being paid. He has also orated his poetry at local public events.

Karuna has been writing poetry continuously since his bereavement. His creative writing interests are much broader than catharsis, covering observations in nature, life, but also humour, science fiction, spirituality and thoughtful philosophy. He also enjoys writing blogs and essays, drawing, music, and watching science fiction. Additionally, he has experience in magazine editorship. Connect with Karuna:

Instagram and Facebook: @karunamistrypoetry

Website: karunacreations.wordpress.com

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We celebrated the Book Launch of Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues - Poems for Healing by Lindsay Soberano Wilson

A Canadian poet, this is the latest full poetry collection by Lindsay.

Lindsay Soberano Wilson's second full-length book of poems, Breaking Up With the Cobalt Poems for Healing, finds peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times. With poems about suicide, sexual assault, addiction, intergenerational trauma, domestic violence, Toronto 90s rave culture, and a pandemic, Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues finds light in the darkness.
The visual and lyrical poems, shed light on hard truths while inspiring readers to "Dance Through the Dark" to find "Glimmers," instead of tripping on triggers like the poem, "I Tripped on a Wound Today" about being a third-generation Holocaust survivor. As the creator of Put It To Rest, a mental health literary online hub, Lindsay believes in putting painful stories to rest by writing them out to let them Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues weaves in and out of childhood, coming of age, and adulthood on a healing journey to put the past behind, embrace the present, and trust the future.
In the opening poem, "I Call This Trauma", the narrator discovers that untying "knots" to fix everything is fruitless, eventually turning to acceptance in "Hope, Are You There?" Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues culminates in a heroic call to action to break up with victimhood to embrace trauma healing reflected in the beauty of the "northern lights."
Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues takes readers on a journey from victimization to becoming self-empowered curators of life, despite the freefall from grace into everyday beauty like being open to receiving "Glimmers."
So just maybe one can never really break up with the "blues" but there's no reason why the blues can't morph into a softer hue that's part of life rather than a defining moment.
Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues is about making peace with grief and not letting the past define you but recreating a future that accepts that pain is a part of life, allowing growth. The concluding poem "Stay Gold" is a tribute to the friends we've lost too soon, accepting that only the good die young.

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of Brooklyn), six novels (Confessions of Brother Eli, Sun City, All for Now, The Alzhammer, Sibella & Sibella, and

The Good Family Fitzgerald), and three books of poetry (Wit’sEnd,Poems in Which, and Sightlines from the

Cheap Seats). He is also the co-author of two bestselling books on childhood and adolescence (Field

Guide to the American Teenager and Right from Wrong). He is Series Editor of Simpsonistas: Tales from New

Literary Project, the annual anthology. His book reviews, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, and his poetry has been awarded prizes from Poetry Northwest, Bear Star Press, and Bread Loaf. His new book, My Last Resume: New and Collected Poems showcases an exquisite body of poetry spanning more than five decades. Joseph champions writers, artists, educators, and students. He taught for decades, middle school, high school, college, and beyond, and he has served on boards as chair or trustee of not-for-profits dedicated to the arts, theater, children’s mental health, and schools. In 2015 he founded the not-for-profit New Literary Project (New Lit), in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, English Department. New Lit drives social change and unleashes artistic power across the generations by offering writing workshops free of charge to teenage writers, investing in creative writers who teach high school, and supporting mid-career authors via the annual Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which he directs.

Born in Brooklyn and a longtime Berkeley resident and Cal graduate, he now lives with his wife, photographer Patti

James, and their two whippets in Lafayette, California.

The adopted daughter of Caribbean immigrants,

Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 2021-22 Poet

Laureate and received a Poet Laureate Fellowship

from the Academy of American Poets. She is the

author of three previous collections of poetry: Beg No

Pardon, Start With A Small Guitar, and Fretwork, winner

of the 2019 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Thompson is the

recipient of multiple awards including an Individual

Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, the

Tucson Literary Festival Poetry Prize, the Steven Dunn

Poetry Prize, the George Drury Prize, as well as

fellowships from the Summer Literary Series, Kenya,

and the Vermont Studio Center. An attorney by

training with a J.D. from Southwestern Law School,

Thompson sits on the Boards of Cave Canem, The

Poetry Foundation, and the Los Angeles Review of

Books. In June 2022, she completed her four-year

service as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Scripps

College, her alma mater. Thompson’s recent work can

be found or is forthcoming in the literary journals Best

American Poetry, Kenyon Review, The Common,

Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, and Copper

Nickel, among others.

On May 4, 2024 we gathered together to celebrate the launch of "The Beauty of Words" by Elizabeth O Ogunmodede.

Learn more about Miss Ogunmodede, a 16-year-old prolific poet:

https://www.prolificpulse.com/elizabethogunmodede