Gently Fierce:
Poems of Faith, Rage & Holy Imagination
When every facet of who we are as a collective is disintegrating, “Gently Fierce” listens for the rhythm of the sacred. These poems are dispatches from the fault line—where faith meets fury, where the body remembers what the spirit tried to forget, where tenderness is an act of resistance.
A neurodivergent pastor writes her way through the fog of the first year of Trump’s second presidency as our nation’s story unravels. It’s confessional and collective, simple and honest. It names our grief as holy ground and insists that stubborn, trembling, embodied love still has work to do among our ruins.
In language that hums with urgency and grace, “Gently Fierce” becomes both prayer and protest, both wound and balm. These poems do not offer easy hope. They offer something truer: Healing lies within the places we most fear to venture, so let us travel there together.
There She Is: Love Notes on Finding Home
Sometimes we need a little help finding that part of us that shimmers with strength, especially when it gets buried by our complex lives.
As Jenny taps out poems on her phone during a season of wild change and challenge in her own story, she ends up meeting her strong shimmering self in surprising places.
She invites us to take our own journey into the places that ache. We’re encouraged to gently tell the truth about all that emerges. As we learn to show up and trust this journey, we find home in places we never thought to look.
There She Is articulates in simple and accessible language the desire to know ourselves and to live from a space of profound love. When we learn to love ourselves home, it’s how we ever so slowly turn around and whisper in awe, “There she is.”
Still Here: A Poetry Memoir of Grief & Love
When faced with unexpected loss, pain and grief set up camp in our bodies and we don’t always know how to talk about what we’re experiencing, especially in the first year of loss. Still Here is a collection of poems for those trying to make sense of the fragility and terror of losing a loved one. We name the shock, wade into the everyday nuances of grief, and eventually take tentative steps into the land of the living again, only to discover love never dies. Somehow their love is still here, dancing with our every breath. Still Here is an honest reckoning with the pain and frustration of grief while journeying toward surprising healing.
Written by a poet and pastor who unexpectedly lost her youngest brother, she captures the ache of loss and the complexity of healing as her family travels the first year together. As she braves the unbearable with curiosity and trust, we’re invited to unravel the grief that awaits each of us, in the hope that love never dies.
They’re still here.
So are we.
