A health care system built on bias and inequity, a system of policing that snatches our sons & daughters from our arms, and a pandemic painting a target on our backs - this is 2020 through the eyes of a black woman with chronic illness.\nIf you've ever been dismissed, ignored, suspected, or accused by a healthcare provider, you will relate to these verses.\n----\nIn this "Corona-cation"-created collection, Maria James-Thiaw delivers personal poetic reflections on chronic illness and mortality, race relations, and family history. The speaker's experiences form a colored chronicle of "Despair-ities" as fluidly surreal as Dali's melting clocks, in which she "folds up her somedays" in response to an immune system that "unpeels her like fresh fruit," yet conjures music even from suffering ("My sister's cells sickle"). Her pain-pricked body is a voodoo doll. Even a right-wing white supremacist becomes a left-handed kindred soul whose "nerves burn like crosses on each vertebra." Count Each Breath scrapes the poem-bone raw. Its verses burn with rage, against an uncertain future, an unredeemed past, and a bruised and bruising, black and blue-and white-America. 
- Vernita Hall, author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color

Count Each Breath

Literature & Fiction

James-Thiaw, Maria

Poetry

Wild Ink Publishing LLC

There are NYC subway passengers sitting, almost swirling across from you. No rhyme or reason as to who is next to whom. Worthy subjects, apart or together, for Norman Rockwell's brush, Saul Bass's graphic hand, or Johnny Francis Wolf's quill. A battered, old homeless man is given wide berth. Young gay couple share a giggle, scantily clad and on their way to a Pride event. Little boy in Mother's lap staring, charmed by a face. Blind man pets the dog asleep between familiar legs. Businessman, NY Times spread wide, is distracted by the shirtless lads laughing to his right. Ladyboy prostitute in daring dress and heels hangs dearly on a subway handgrip. Priest standing, facing door, eyes averted toward our hooker, wondering if the cleavage real, ignores the beggar reaching out a hand for help. Way over to our left, a bearded man in red. Santa hat adorns his head. No one is on their device. ---------- Insightful, often painfully truthful writing about the vagaries of life as a far from 'one size fits all' person. Go, Johnny! - David Wagoner, author of THE FLUTE MAKER'S APPRENTICE and QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Wolf has the most primal poetry around; you feel like you're deep in the wilderness of the human heart. There's a joy there, an enthusiasm, an excitement. He knows where the words are. It's a powerful thing to experience such tender yet intensely beautiful art. - Phoenix, author of ROGUE Lyrical genius, his verse unmatched by any writer in any century. Life sparkles through the veins of his stanzas; sadness, love, gratitude, friendship, loneliness, ethereal joy, and everything they contain inside their skins. Johnny's work is music to the hearts of those who truly love poetry. - Tanya Rakh, author of HYDROGEN SOFI and WILDFLOWER HELL His words are lenses that both reflect and probe deeper. His poems are the raw human condition while also being something more, just as we are. - Jessica Mandella, author of HEAVEN'S BRIDES, original recording artist Johnny's poetry is artistically masterful. Each piece is a beautifully rhythmic adventure into unique worlds of penetrating imagery, nostalgic sensibility, and biting modernity. - John Drudge, author of THE SEASONS OF US, NEW DAYS, and FRAGMENTS Lyrical, graphic, brutal, tender, quirky, intimate, and awesome - the work of Johnny W redefines the LGBTQIA rainbow through the multifaceted lenses of a life lived well, embellished for farce, filled with hope, healing, and laughter. - Carolyn Brissett of Translators Café and World Cat Identities Treading lightly is for normies, and honestly one of their worse ideas. - William Jackson, Philosopher & Poet

Men Unlike Others, Vol. 1, A-L

Wolf, Johnny Francis

Men Unlike Others: Volume 1, A-L

Men Unlike Others, Vol. 2, M-Z

There are NYC subway passengers sitting, swirling across from you. No rhyme or reason as to who is next to whom. Worthy subjects, apart or together, for Norman Rockwell's brush, Saul Bass's graphic hand, or Johnny Francis Wolf's pen.A battered, old homeless man is given wide berth. Young gay couple share a giggle, scantily clad and on their way to a Pride event. Little boy in Mother's lap staring, charmed by a face. Blind man pets the dog asleep between familiar legs. Businessman, NY Times spread wide, is distracted by the shirtless lads laughing to his right. Ladyboy prostitute in daring dress and heels hangs dearly on a subway handgrip. Priest standing, facing door, eyes averted toward our hooker, wondering if cleavage real, ignoring beggar reaching out a hand for help.Way over to our left we find a bearded man in red. Santa hat adorns his head.No one is on their device.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder

We all know the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. But what you may not know is that this familiar fairytale can also help us understand autism spectrum disorder.As a mother of a child with ASD, Amy struggled to find materials to share with her son's cousins and peers on the complexities of ASD, what to expect, and how to interact and have fun with a person on the spectrum.So, she created her own!Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder is a retelling of a beloved classic. In this unique version, Goldilocks exhibits many of the characteristics of a child with autism, such as sensory sensitivities and challenges in understanding social norms.As an added bonus, this one-of-a-kind story includes an ASD glossary of terms as well as discussion questions. It is perfect for libraries, classrooms, families of children with autism, or readers of all ages who want to learn more about ASD.While every person's autism presents differently, Goldilocks' autism can help the reader understand the autism of someone they know a little better.

Children's Books

Nielsen, Amy

Growing Up & Facts of Life

We all know the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. But you may not know that this retelling of the familiar fairytale can also help us understand autism spectrum disorder. As an added bonus, this one-of-a-kind story includes an ASD glossary of terms and discussion questions. It is perfect for libraries, classrooms, families of children with autism, or readers of all ages who want to learn more about ASD.

Ourania would like to cordially invite you to explore the universe with her. Through stories and enchanted dreamlands, Ourania opens the cosmos up to you. Jump inside this book and let the words take over your imagination. In these pages you will travel with mice, dream of star people, and realize you are a creature born from the stars themselves. You will go to school with goddesses, chat with Zeus's daughters, and fly around town with a magical umbrella.Welcome to a world of whimsy and enchantment. Welcome to the stars.

Ourania's Orrery of Imagination

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Unapologetic

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Books by Wild Ink Publishing LLC

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Count Each Breath

Men Unlike Others, Vol. 1, A-L

Men Unlike Others: Volume 1, A-L

Men Unlike Others, Vol. 2, M-Z

Men Unlike Others, Vol. 2, M-Z

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ourania's Orrery of Imagination

Unapologetic

Unapologetic