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ANNOUNCING-FORTHCOMING

Beth Baird’s Soon to Be Released Love & Other Myths

Pasadena, CA., December 3, 2024:  Award-winning poet, Beth Baird, announces the forthcoming release of her first poetry chapbook, Love & Other Myths which chronicles with poetic, visual, and lyrical honesty a journey of personal discovery of love and marriage juxtaposed amidst the harsh realities of interracial marriage, family, and life-threatening illness.  

“Bill and I share a love story,” relates the author.  “We cherished our relationship not knowing the big whammy headed our way that would paralyze our future.” Documenting the sentiments of a bonding love, Ms. Baird’s poems entrust us with her personal experience on a passage through her marriage and family.  She chooses three sets of marriage vows in which to infuse her poems: ‘to love and to cherish’; ‘for better or worse’; and ‘in sickness and in health’.

“These poems of an interracial love that created a family are a moving tribute to both the suffering and joy that infuse a relationship.  We follow Beth Baird on a journey that began in promise and led through long periods of despair as her husband suffered a severe stroke that impacted everything in their daily lives. The poems are honest and unflinching.  The book is a testament to her love for Bill and the family they created, as well as the never ceasing realities of race in this country.” -Susan Sherrell, author of the mystery, Grace

The author, Beth Baird, is a poet, writer, singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.  Her poetry appears in Altadena Poetry Review (Golden Foothills Press), Altadena Literary Review (Shabda Press), We Are Here:  Village Poets Anthology (Moonrise Press), Spectrum Publishing, Dark Street (Garavi Sokak, Miroslav Antic Poetry Club), and On Sunday the Danube Flows (Serbian Writers Association).  Beth read at the 2018 International Writer’s Meeting in Belgrade and toured with fellow poets throughout Serbia.  She was a 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee.

“I hope to open a dialogue for others who may feel alone in the caregiving experience; to know they are not alone”, shares Ms. Baird.  Details regarding launch events and where to purchase the book will be announced shortly.

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