True Blue

This book was built around poems written about and during the pandemic. Broken into three sections, the first one asks us to look at what we may have lost during that time, connections we longed to have-memory, ancestors, family. The middle section describes the struggles and hard feelings many experienced: isolation, grief, chaos, depression, eventually leading us to a path of resilience, strength and hope. The book ends with praise poems that show how hope can be found in the smallest thing, and in the big questions we ask. These poems navigate life’s struggles and remind us that in end we are stronger for having lived through them.

Author Biography

SUSAN SCHEID is the author of After Enchantment, which was inspired by beloved fairy tale characters. Scheid’s poetry has appeared in The Southern Quill, Blue Heron Review, The Mid-Atlantic Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Burgeon Press, Gargoyle, About Place Journal, Truth to Power, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Little Patuxent Review, The Sligo Journal, Silver Birch Press, Tidal Basin Review, and other journals. Her work is also included in the anthologies, Poetic Art, Enchantment of the Ordinary, and Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic. Scheid served for a number of years as the Board co-chair for Split This Rock. She lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC.