Lylanne Musselman

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SOPHOMORE STOMP Lisa Devon Lisa Devon's second book of poetry is even more impactful than her first. These powerful poems about current social issues will light a fire in your soul to change the world. Her work beats with the rhythm of today and she does not back down from tough themes. Her ability to visualize in words current events is uncanny. Spoken word in written form often lacks delivery on the page, but not this work. You will find yourself wanting to stand-up and speak the words yourself. If you are socially conscious read this book for motivation. If you are a working womcchan you will find poems to empower you. If you have not read poetry since high school, read this book to gain a new perspective on what poetry can be.

MARRIAGE MAPS AND DRIVEN DESTINIES Mary Sexson & Lylanne Musselman Mary Sexson and Lylanne Musselman connected quickly and became poetry sisters. This joint book leads the reader down two different paths the authors have walked. As you meander through the pages you will find tears and joy, fear and anticipation, life and death. This book leads you down a self-reflective arc where you will find hope in good times and bad. Despite having traveled very different paths, Mary Sexson and Lylanne Musselman remind us in Marriage Maps and Driven Destinies that the people we journey with profoundly impact our paths and purposes. The poets' talents for imagery and analogy place us in fast cars driving Indiana roads after curfew and sitting in waiting rooms reflecting on mortality-raw and relatable vignettes resonating of hardship, heartache, and tenderness. Poems illustrate how our choices when navigating threats, for better or worse, prepare us to survive and find joy in what might feel routine or mundane. Independence comes from boldly taking the wheel and learning when to stop and ask for directions. Sexson and Musselman's collection explores relationships that shape and bind us: those we cherish and those we must forgive. Liz Whiteacre Author of Hit the Ground and founder of Etchings Press

In My Life A Pop Culture Poetry Memoir Lylanne Musselman The robust howls that come back to the us we didn’t know we’d become trek like an agitated Amtrak rolling over hot-steel within In My Life: (A Pop Culture Poetry Memoir). Musselman’s pulsing prose-poetry persists “we wrote our way out of ordinary”—combined with the familial splatters of joy and pain rumbling amidst language roaring in a historical soundtrack for some validity. Here, the artist’s greedy word-portraits eat your heart alive. And you relish being consumed.      — Curtis L. Crisler, the Indiana Poet Laureate and author of Doing Drive-bys on How to Love in the Midwest If your life were a jukebox, which records would drop on the turntable? Which artist would croon tales of love, loss, and lessons learned, and what stories about you would those songs tell? Lylanne Musselman’s poetry collection, In My Life, spins through the songs and memories that tell her stories of a lifetime of treasures and heartaches. Is there a song or two that transports you back in time to a place or memory so vivid it’s as if you are there again…if only in your mind? Grab a coffee or tea; reading her poems feels like a good friend sharing a lifetime of “remember when” moments as the jukebox keeps playing. — Karen Zimmerman, NLAPW Indianapolis Branch President, CIWA Director and Editor, ICW Board of Directors

THE PROVIDENCE OF GRASS Eric Fisher Stone The Providence of Grass is a poetry collection that invites the reader to be humble before and to accept the slow moving, though inevitable realities of death and the cosmos. One central image of the book is grass, a plant that usurps empires and breaks through abandoned concrete. The transience of specific places, even the entire Earth, is illuminated, and the far future of the sun enveloping the world (what astronomers say will happen in several billion years) is mentioned more than once. The reader confronts the impermanence of life.

Now Available In My Life: A Pop Culture Poetry Memoir