Celebrating & Cultivating: Creative Voices, Visions,
And Community
This space was built to celebrate the heart of independent artistry. The authors, poets, and creatives whose words and work demand to be seen. Here we highlight voices from every venture, and every truth is worth reading.
About the Spotlight:
The Spotlight is Poeaxtry’s feature space for indie creatives across all avenues. These posts will celebrate them as individuals, their work, or their collections. Directly below houses a few recent posts. If you continue down, the page also is broken up into the 3 main categories.
Each feature is a moment of visibility. It offers a curated look into the stories, art, and souls of independent artists. These elements shape change through creativity.
We shine light on indie authors, small presses, marginalized creators, and every voice that refuses silence.
🌈Most Recent Spotlights
- Care for You. Because Who Else Will?A grounding self-care mini guide exploring historical, cultural, and modern rituals, breathwork, and reflection, available as a printable or digital PDF.
- I Like to Read, You Like to Watch the Life Drain Out of a Person- spotlightA raw collection of 56 poems exploring trauma, mental health, and survival from a transgender man in Ohio, unflinching, brave, and necessary.
- Sometimes the Prince Needs Saved: 69 Poems on Love, Grief, Identity, and BecomingA 69-poem collection exploring love, loss, identity, and self-discovery across a lived season of life. Raw, lyrical, and deeply human.
- Title: Ramblings of the Lost and Found – Poetry by Axton MitchellExplore 63 raw, heartfelt poems by transgender poet Axton Mitchell. These navigating grief, identity, love, and survival in Ramblings of the Lost and Found.
Spotlighting Indie Creatives
Here You’ll find the most recently featured indie creatives featured in The Prism. These posts are about the makers whose works and visions are shaping the independent creative world.
Click here and meet your new indie favorite
- The Multidisciplinary Artist- Alexander Limarev- from RussiaExploring Alexander Limarev, a multidisciplinary artist, mail art artist, poet, visual poet and curator from Russia/Siberia.
- “Women in Red Rooms”Discover Dorothy Jade’s debut poetry collection, Women in Red Rooms, where rage transforms into healing, creativity, and empowerment for women of color.
- Drici Amos James: The God of PoetryDAJ2020- Drici Amos James, “The God OF Poetry,” in this two part feature learn more about the poet and his featured book.
Indie Creations
Discover individual works by indie creators. From things like poetry books to novellas, visual art pieces, music, and more, see the talent behind each creation.
Click here to explore your new favorite’s work
- Care for You. Because Who Else Will?A grounding self-care mini guide exploring historical, cultural, and modern rituals, breathwork, and reflection, available as a printable or digital PDF.
- I Like to Read, You Like to Watch the Life Drain Out of a Person- spotlightA raw collection of 56 poems exploring trauma, mental health, and survival from a transgender man in Ohio, unflinching, brave, and necessary.
- Sometimes the Prince Needs Saved: 69 Poems on Love, Grief, Identity, and BecomingA 69-poem collection exploring love, loss, identity, and self-discovery across a lived season of life. Raw, lyrical, and deeply human.
- Title: Ramblings of the Lost and Found – Poetry by Axton MitchellExplore 63 raw, heartfelt poems by transgender poet Axton Mitchell. These navigating grief, identity, love, and survival in Ramblings of the Lost and Found.
- Because I Was Prompted – A Poetry Prompt Journal by AxtonExplore Because I Was Prompted, Axton’s unique poetry prompt journal. Here he blends 17 poems with the creative prompts used to create them. To inspire writers, poets, and creatives. Perfect for deepening your craft and sparking new ideas. About This… Read more: Because I Was Prompted – A Poetry Prompt Journal by Axton
- Beginnings and Endings: 93 Poems on Love, Loss, and the Messy MiddleA post spotlighting Beginnings and Endings, Axton N.O. Mitchell’s first self-published e-book. Sample it. Trade or barter for it. Or find out where to buy your copy.
- “Women in Red Rooms”Discover Dorothy Jade’s debut poetry collection, Women in Red Rooms, where rage transforms into healing, creativity, and empowerment for women of color.
- Book Spotlight: Canvas of Scars By: Shane Blackheart 🖤Unflinching dark poetry meets evocative art in Shane Blackheart’s Canvas of Scars. This powerful collection dives deep into the realities of PTSD, trauma, and depression, offering a voice for survival. Read the whole spotlight here and then go get your copy!
Indie Collections
Creatives release themed collections. These can be zines with many volumes, books with different editions, or a story over multiple novels. Others create works that explore a shared theme. This is where you can see the whole collection together, so you get the full story piece by piece.
Click here to focus on your favorite’s collection.
📬 Want to Be Featured?
Are you a writer, artist, or creative with a story to tell?
We’re always looking for voices to uplift and celebrate. Send your work, your book, or your creative journey to be considered for the next Spotlight feature. Email me directly poeaxtry@gmail.com with your spotlight information or send a form here.
Every voice and vision adds color to the prism.
– Axton N.O. Mitchell
Step forward and, be seen.
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