The Peace Chronicles

#FindYourPeace

Documenting my last moments in the Vortex, The Peace Chronicles moves from a searing betrayal by Tyrone (Love from the Vortex & Other Poems) to my equanimity with it. These poems also record my peacemaking with my father, the tireless work of my ancestors, and celebrates the freedom that brings me tranquility, contentment and joy.

With beautiful endorsements by the amazing Mahogany L. Browne, Rio Cortez, Adam Falkner, Micah Bournes & Amelia Simone, my sophomore collection asks the questions: How can we learn from pain that grips us tightly? Where does love go to be laid to rest and when it rises again, do we name it resurrection, awakening, or reimagining?

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Praise for The Peace Chronicles

"These poems are psalms and serve as brilliant beams to bring her readers safely home."

- Mohagany L. Browne, Author of Chlorine Sky

"a remarkable journey through healing and revelation. Dazzling lyrical meditations that leave the reader breathless."

- Rio Cortes, New York Times Bestselling Author of The ABCs of Black History

"Through 'forgiveness and a new way to love,' she writes poems of a free spirit; reminding the men who wounded her, ' I am not better than you, I just figured out my worth.'"

- Micah Bournes, Poet. Musician. Author of Here Comes This Dreamer

"Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz knows what it means to love yourself as a 'trusted traveller,' a logo song, a live wire scraped open by love. The Peace Chronicles reminds us that 'fear will hold you hostage / until you release it,' and begs us to love who we are in the eye of grief and chaos 'to find out way back / again.' These poems shine.

- Adam Falkner, PhD., Author of The Willies

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s latest collection The Peace Chronicles stirs a range of emotions, but one feeling lingers longer than the rest: courage. Courage to be vulnerable, courage to face fear, courage to live an examined life, and courage to choose self-love as the foundation of all others over and over again. And what is courage but simply love or, more precisely, heart? Sealey-Ruiz models it for us by approaching the page with radical honesty and bold candor that adds a refreshing realness to her records. In doing so, she forges an impenetrable peace even from the center of a vortex, peace that not only settles her own soul, but radiates for the highest good of all who experience her words.

- Amelia Simone Herbert, Author of Contagious Acts of Freedom

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Merchandise for The Peace Chronicles (TPC) will be out in the fall. TPC merch will present the grand opportunity to highlight the incredible work of Dr. David Ikard, Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, and the artist I commissioned to create the book cover for The Peace Chronicles.

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