Forgotten Necessities Release Day

 

Happy Publication Day to Forgotten Necessities!

 

 

“I’m not mad I sold my youth, just that I sold it so cheap.”

Jared Singer in Forgotten Necessities
 

In his anticipated second collection, Forgotten Necessities, Jared Singer wears love and loss on his skin.

 

Through spell-bindingly immersive storytelling, Singer digs to the roots of our deepest woes and cradles our joys with utmost tenderness. Intimacy and vulnerability ache across the time and space of these poems. Forgotten Necessities holds its sadness sacredly and builds shrines to the hope that follows. Persistent reminders of the small kindnesses that make a life meaningful to the living and the dead. A brilliant follow-up to his debut, Singer’s Forgotten Necessities is itself a necessity, a haunting that heals.

 

Check out a performance from Jared Singer down below!

 

 

About Jared:

Facebook @JaredSingerwriter

Jared Singer is an Audio Engineer and poet who lives in Secaucus, NJ. While he may have physically grown up with his peers, he has never forgotten the imagination, magic, and nerdiness that were cornerstones of his childhood. He hopes to remind others of these more creative times. He has also appeared on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast. He has represented New York eight times at the National Slam level, including two final stage appearances at the National Poetry Slam. Jared has long believed in the healing power of the mountains, kittens, and lists of three.

 
 

 

Rudy Francisco – On Days Like This

Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

“I know a few things about forgiving. It’s harder than it looks but it feels a lot better than it sounds.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

Get Rudy’s book, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky.

Junious ‘Jay’ Ward – Dog

Performed at IWPS 2015

“You will either play fetch with this money or be thrown into your crate and that is a metaphor.”

Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Jay’s book, Composition.

Rudy Francisco – Your God

Performed at IWPS 2015

“Sooner or later you will realize that you are praying to your own shadow; that you are standing in front of mirrors and are worshipping your own reflection.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Rudy’s book, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky.

Junious ‘Jay’ Ward – Grandmother

Performed at IWPS 2015

“I know what it means to embrace a blossom of angles that is both delicate and difficult.”

Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Jay’s book, Composition.

Siaara Freeman – Bebe’s Kids

Performed at Rustbelt 2015

“No breaking things and putting them back together like nothing happened. This includes yourself.”

Don’t miss this poem from Siaara Freeman Bebe’s Kids, performing at Rustbelt 2015

Get Siaara’s book, Urbanshee.

Rudy Francisco – A Letter to the Apocalypse

Performed at IWPS 2015

“I’m not saying you should end the world, but you could at least knock over a mailbox.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Rudy’s book, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky.

Melissa Lozada-Oliva – Bitches

Performed at IWPS 2015

“It’s okay to not be liked bitches. On our own until infinity bitches.”

Don’t miss this poem from Melissa Lozada-Oliva, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Melissa’s book, peluda.

Sean Patrick Mulroy – Pyro

Performed at IWPS 2015

“The truth is scarier than any allegory. Lover, there is something inside you that burns down everything you love.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Sean’s book, Hated for the Gods.

Steven Willis – Ebonics 101

Performed at IWPS 2015

“The verbal diaspora of Africa shapes my spine, we cross our Ts like the middle passage, dot our Is with strange fruit, curve our Ss with Mid-Atlantic roots.”

Don’t miss this poem from Steven Willis, performing at IWPS 2015

Get Steven’s book, A Peculiar People.