Help in the Dark Season by Jacqueline Suskin

Help in the Dark Season exposes lessons of adult and childhood trauma, relationship joys and failures, and the hard work of true togetherness. 

Each poem walks us into Jacqueline Suskin’s world, where dreams and sacred visions are just as important as reality, where planet earth is an active character, and every attempt at love is a worthwhile endeavor.

Even when it hurts us the most, even when it’s laughable and foolish, these poems aim to provide proof that human connection is crucial and always worth the risk.

I was met with resistance
from the very beginning—
my mother said no to my spirit
as I floated above her.

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Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, writing books, and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. She has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems with her ongoing writing project, Poem Store. Suskin is the author of eight books, including A Year in Practice (2023).