Night Blooming Flower is Available!
Night Blooming Flower is a deeply vulnerable manuscript inspired by the poet’s experience with intimate partner abuse trauma and recovery, marital separation and divorce, motherhood, feminism, and accepting her queer identity. In this collection, she explores the pain, courage, and complexities that come with love, loss, and self-discovery.
Kiss Moths
You feel a flutter in your darkest part. It has
always lived there, but you’ve never swallowed
enough courage or sat in silence long enough
to notice its steady wingbeats, until now.
Artist and Poet
Jamie Lynn Stanish
Jamie Stanish (she/her) is a poet, visual artist, graphic designer, activist, yoga instructor, runner, singer, musician, and mother. Jamie and her partner live in Saint Augustine, Florida, where she is a member of the Ancient City Poets. She has been featured by The St. Johns County Cultural Council, Narrow Magazine, FM Poets, ACA Papa, and the social media accounts Her Heart’s Reach, and Pack Poetry.
Jamie has performed for Bowery Poetry Club in New York City as well as Sing Out Loud, an annual festival that spotlights Northeast Florida’s most prestigious and well-known musicians and writers. Her mixed media artwork, “No Longer Silent” was published in Women Writing for Change’s 2019 (A) River Rising – Anthology of Women’s Voices – Rise and Shine. Another mixed media piece, “Sometimes it Hurts to Bloom” was published in the organization’s 2020 edition of (A) River Rising – Anthology of Women’s Voices – Birds and Blooms.
Jamie’s art was presented in These Hands Are Women, an event benefitting Her Future Coalition, a non-profit organization that aims to support young women escaping the sex trade industry.
For over ten years, Jamie has worked as the creative director for her agency, Just Make Things, which offers branding strategy and graphic design services for maker entrepreneurs and creative small businesses.
Jamie’s writing is exquisite; filled with observation, wit, and glorious imagery. There is so much meaning here–layer upon layer of beauty and melancholy that just captivates the reader. Wherever this talented poet goes next, I’m going, too!
– Paula
@YourHeartBeatsStrong
A hard read. A must read. Excruciating and beautiful.
– Anonymous
@unseen_unheard_poet
Whew. This is f*cking incredible. Your words are like lightning. Like a gut punch and a razor and I just love them so much. A pen in your hand is like combustible beauty.
– Jennifer Arnspiger
@highlysensitivehealing
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