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Rooted in the natural world, we are a women-led independent publishing company.

Our poetry books offer immersive, embodied experiences for a more direct connection to ourselves, others, and the earth.

07/23/2025

📚 Looking for your next page-turner?

Explore the July Indie Next List! Top 25 book recommendations from your favorite indie booksellers. ➡️ https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list

07/23/2025

Recently invited to speak at a book-festival session titled “Books That Changed the World,” the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro figured he was expected to talk about the bard. “Instead, frightened by what has been happening in America, I decided to choose a book that is changing the world right now,” Shapiro writes. https://theatln.tc/bhZwYtPC

“The Turner Diaries” is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, a physicist and the founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. It tells the story of Earl Turner, who participates in a revolution that begins as a race war in the United States and results in the annihilation of nonwhite people. “The novel, which is horrifying and heartless, slowly acclimates readers to greater levels of violence and hatred, with healthy doses of propaganda justifying large-scale murder,” Shapiro writes.

The book “once served as a deadly template for domestic terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh, who drew from its pages when he planned the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City,” Shapiro writes. The month before the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a Proud Boys leader said on a livestream that government officials “deserved to die a traitor’s death,” to which another leader replied, “Yup, Day of the Rope”—the name that Pierce gave, in “The Turner Diaries,” to the day when enemies are lynched. On January 6, the appearance of a gallows with a noose hanging from it outside the Capitol “visually reinforced the allusion to that defining moment in the novel,” Shapiro writes.

Vile though it is, the book “isn’t just a how-to manual for homegrown terrorists,” Shapiro continues. It has “influenced American culture in a way only fiction can—by harnessing the force of storytelling to popularize ideas that have never been countenanced before. Literature can be mind opening, but it can also be corrosive, and there is no exaggeration in saying that ‘The Turner Diaries’ and books like it have played a part in spreading hateful ideas that now even influence government policy.”

📸: Johnathon Kelso

05/27/2025

We keep hearing from our readers that they leave WHEN FLOWERS SING right next to their bed. And then open the book to read a poem upon waking or before bed.

We created this book to give solace and nourishment during these troubling times. Poetry can be so helpful.

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05/13/2025

The Republican senator from Missouri called potentially deep cuts in the program “morally wrong” and “politically suicidal” for his party as it courts working-class voters.

05/09/2025

A couple of days left to enter the Mother’s Day Giveaway!

We are celebrating and honoring all Mothers by giving away 10 copies of WHEN FLOWERS SING: A Poetry Anthology for Mother’s Day.

The seed of this book is the gift of flowers, a ritual shared across human cultures. This collection of poems embodies the emotion that flowers symbolize. Something they will read again and again.

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Giveaway lasts until May 11th. Winners will be picked randomly and notified via Instagram direct message the next day.

05/05/2025

The seed of this book is the gift of flowers, a ritual shared across human cultures. This collection of poems embodies the emotion that flowers symbolize. Something they will read again and again.

How to enter:
1. Like this post
2. Follow us
3. Tag your friends you think would enjoy this book

Giveaway lasts until May 11th. Winners will be picked randomly and notified via Instagram direct message the next day.

05/02/2025

We are celebrating and honoring the Mother by giving away 10 copies of WHEN FLOWERS SING: A Poetry Anthology for Mother’s Day.

The seed of this book is the gift of flowers, a ritual shared across human cultures. This collection of poems embodies the emotion that flowers symbolize. Something they will read again and again.

Enter By:
1. Like this post
2. Leave a comment of a memory you have with anyone who has “Mothered” you
3. We’d love to have you follow us
4. Tag your friends you think would enjoy this book

Giveaway lasts until May 11th. Winners will be picked randomly and notified via Instagram direct message the next day.

04/23/2025

Happy Earth Day! An Offering, a poem by Kristyn Lee Pankiw from When Flowers Sing: A Poetry Anthology.

04/18/2025

To the Flower Garden by from When Flowers Sing: A Poetry Anthology.

In a time when the world is tumultuous and technological advances are rapid, this book is intended to be a tangible source of pleasure and human connection.

04/17/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳 🎂😘to , the CEO/Founder and visionary of a thousand flowers. Her deep knowledge and passion for poetry and art continue to guide and inspire all of our work. We wish her another year around the sun filled with good health, joy, and love!

04/12/2025

WHEN FLOWERS SING was born from simple beliefs: Flowers, if noticed, make people smile. Given flowers are from one heart to another. In a time when the world is tumultuous and technological advances are rapid, we wanted to create something tangible that depended our connection to ourselves, each other and the planet.

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03/28/2025

We published and poetry art book, EVERYDAY MERMAID in 2019.

We spent so much time and intention on the design and paper and printing of this book. It is truly so special to hold in your hand.

You can purchase a copy from the a thousand flowers website or Amazon.com. Click on the link in our bio to learn more.

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