by Xianna Michaels | Feb 5, 2017 | Books
Dear Reader, Many of you have been asking what I've been up to lately and I'm thrilled that as 2017 gets underway, I do have exciting news to share! I've just sent my newest book off to the printer! It's called The Alchemy of Illuminated Poetry®—Seven Steps to Your...
by Xianna Michaels | Jun 16, 2016 | Books
This heartfelt saga in verse form is about five generations of women’s journeys from Russia’s persecuting pogroms of the 1890s to America during the 2000s, including Ellis Island and New York’s Lower East Side sweatshops. The story is broken up into five parts, one...
by Xianna Michaels | Apr 3, 2016 | Editorial
brain So what do Thomas Jefferson, Oscar Hammerstein II and my high school chemistry class have in common? As it turns out, something rather significant, though it took me many years to figure it out. What on earth am I talking about? I'm talking about desks, standing...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 16, 2016 | Books
flower A verse narrative follows the fortunes of a Jewish family through five generations after it immigrates to the United States. In 1892, a Russian Jewish couple suffer a horrifying loss when their baby is murdered by Cossacks in a pogrom. They send their two...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 15, 2016 | Editorial
verse "For the land beyond the Lower East Side And New York's endless stone and steel, Where the other shore was three months' ride— California, where the gold was real. The north was booming, but the southern part Was the place that captured Lily's heart. A place...
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