The Peace Chronicles

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is a lighthouse. Whether teaching, writing, or prophesizing, Sealey-Ruiz is astute in the building of community. She fortifies readers through a rich lexicon as she languages liberation with the Black feminist lens as a compass. These poems are psalms and serve as brilliant beams to bring her readers safely home."

- Mahogany L. Browne, Author of Chlorine Sky & i remember death by its proximity to what i love most

 

"Sealey-Ruiz's second full-length collection is a remarkable journey through healing and revelation. These poems are dazzling lyrical meditations that leave the reader breathless."

- Rio Cortez, New York Times best selling 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’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

 

"Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz knows what it means to love yourself as a 'trusted traveller,' a solo 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 our way back / again.' These poems shine."

- Adam Falkner, PhD, Author of The Willies