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Romantic Thriller set in New Orleans
Giulia Vitale was the prima donna of the opera, A Love Unrequited. When the diva fell in love on the eve of Epiphany, life imitated the art of unrequited love. Enamored of the voice of another, she forgot the sound of her own. The one that serenaded her also betrayed her; sabotaging Giulia’s career and closing the opera. Hiding from her shame, she wandered from lover to lover, life to life, masquerading in the guise of others. Eventually, she became her mask, and her face fell into shadow… until her descendant, Gwendolyn Faye, would take her place on the stage.
Haunted by the legacy of her lineage, Gwen struggles to match her grandmother’s resonance. She finds solace from this familial burden in the arms of the mysterious Isaac Sylvain. Reminded of her ancestor’s failed romance, she resists his charms to focus on her impending debut. But Isaac is not so easily swayed. Though Gwen does not reciprocate Isaac’s love, she cannot ignore his influence, which threatens to derail the opera. Like Giulia before her, Gwen must rise to the occasion and reclaim her ancestral voice, or fall victim to A Love Unrequited.

A long conversational poem, Shuhari is based on a martial arts concept, illustrating the stages of learning to mastery.
Everyone and everything around us is both a student and a teacher. We constantly learn from others, our environment, and ourselves. A teacher trades lessons with their student. As one leads, the other follows, and as one follows, the other leads. Like a dance, this conversation cultivates until the song ends, and the time comes to find a new partner. A long poem in three parts, Shuhari illustrates how learning from one another helps to better understand oneself.

A poetry collection of the feelings we foster, but can’t always speak.
Writing is the fostering of ideas; shaping thoughts into words, and molding them into statements as a way of expression. But ideas wither, thoughts fade, and words get lost. In manifesting our concepts into a language, we struggle to convey our emotional truths.
These poems are a series of words to nurture shared feelings — notions of love, longing, and loss. An adoption of letters, lyrics, and syllables, foster poems is a book of lost words that might foster those who find them.

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