Böcker av Dre Hill

No can see the world that exists inside one's head. Sometimes you might wish you could close your eyes and never wake, drifting off peacefully into an eternal slumber. (No) I am (not) okay is Dre Hill's exploration into this hidden inner world and what happens within. This chapbook centers its dialogue on suicide and ideations, mental health, along with commentary on religion, race, and gender, and how these structures further cloud the waters of the mind. Here, Hill reckons with the weight of the war waged in one's own mind. (No) I am (not) okay is raw, unashamed, and unafraid, willing to say things that many think but feel they could never articulate.

Long gone are the days of struggling to write. Pushing the Pen is a tool to help combat writer's block, foster creative thinking, and encourage writers of all skill levels to return to the craft and create something new. This book of prompts contains a multitude of ideas to explore, that revolve around two main themes: emotions and the body. As you wind your way through its pages, you will be pressed to expand the ways in which you think and write about your emotions and your body. The hope is that by the time you have completed working your way through all the prompts, you would have generated enough work for your own zine, chapbook, or even full-length poetry collection. In addition to prompts on every page, some pages will have additional challenges for you to try, in order to further test your skills and flex your creative brainpower. These prompts however do not focus on form. Some may encourage you to fashion your poems after a certain style or method of expression, but there is no emphasis on the poems all being haikus, sonnets, or something in between. It's time to push the pen!

A crossroads is a series of intersecting paths, each with the potential to take a traveler to a new destination. Whether the destination is known or unknown, the journey becomes one that tests the wit, will, and working knowledge of the traveler along the way. This collection, Crossroads, is Dre Hill's journey of discovery, identity, and sense of self. Dre is formed and remade. Lost and then found. A wayward soul in search of both the past and the future. Much like this collection, Dre's journey is both linear and non, simultaneously unfolding sequentially and at the same time, much like the ways in which we experience and compartmentalize things in real time. The work is reflective, speaking to the progression of his journey up until now, navigating his confusion, losses, doubts, anxieties, and more. The hope is that it similarly speaks to your inner journeyman, or woman, and that you will meet Dre where the roads cross.