Free/Inexpensive Chapbooks &  Poetry Books

lifeinpoetry:

These are chapbooks available from the poet, the publisher, or Amazon. While I’ve not read all of them the ones I’ve not read I’ve plans to read. They range from free to $6. At the end there are some free/inexpensive print &/or prose chapbooks and links to small presses that have free or inexpensive chapbooks. I’ve asterisked my favorites.

Updated: February 5, 2017 (ebooks/items added are bolded and followed by +++++)

Poetry from Tumblr Poets

Poetry from Non-Tumblr Poets

Print &/or Prose

Small Presses, Etc.

Not even the stars shined as bright as my eyes would when you’d tell me you love me.
― you deserve to be loved (cravings)

I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me.

I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.” - Meryl Streep

― Meryl Streep (via iknowyouthinkaboutme)
She got on a plane and left me. I had to evolve without her and grow up without her. I was angry so very angry when she left. But now, I’m glad she did, because when she got on that plane I could finally breathe…
zipander  (via wnq-writers)