POETRY · FLORIDA · 2026 · NEW RELEASE
19 Poems from Vero Beach
A collection of poetry that traces the contours of love, faith, loss, and self-discovery with startling honesty. These poems celebrate womanhood and the courage it takes to feel deeply and live as one’s truest self.
Inside the collection
A book shaped by a life journey
These poems begin where the day begins: salt on the air, a horizon that refuses to stay still, and the small private reckonings that arrive with light.
Across each section of the collection, the speaker moves through beauty and loss without hurry—listening for what the coast teaches: how to let go, how to return, how to stand in the same place and become someone new.
“Poetry is how we reach for the divine, to that which is beyond the experience itself… that which gives meaning to it all somehow. In the creation of the poem, we turn the moment into art.”
— 19 Poems from Vero Beach
Written in Vero Beach and along Florida’s Treasure Coast, 19 Poems from Vero Beach is both a love letter and a ledger: what the water gives, what it takes, and what it leaves shining on the sand.
What you’ll find here
A quiet architecture of themes
A few threads that move through the collection—recurring, shifting, returning like the tides.
A journey through the seasons of life
A celebration of every chapter of a woman’s life, in all its pain and joy.
Reckoning & renewal
Poems that hold grief and beauty in the same palm, and make room for what comes after.
Treasure Coast light
A small visual breath—shoreline, sky, and the kind of distance that makes the words feel true.
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