A Woman's Work: Poems and Ponderings of the Heart

by Bethel Swift

Overview

A WOMAN'S WORK: POEMS AND PONDERINGS OF THE HEART is a treasury of vivid vignettes depicting feminine softness, rage, fear, and strength. A testament to the emotional labor women carry, this volume contains poems of quiet meditation and urgent calls to allyship. Together they form a humanist's prayer for peace, delivered with acknowledgment of the banality of evil, the duality of human nature, and an appeal to the good in each individual. Swift's collection is unapologetically emotional and wholesomely empathic, encouraging a return to reflection and rest, to listening and learning from Mother Earth, and to putting love into action by defending the rights of the defenseless.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940182886840
Publisher:	Bethel Swift
Publication date:	09/04/2025
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	606 KB

About the Author

Bethel Swift is a San Diego-based poet, workshop instructor, and blogger from the South Side of Chicago. She is the author of Conversations with Good Men (March 2020) and has poetry published in Armenian Poetry Project, Haiku Journal, and Expressions from Englewood as well as exhibited at Columbia College Chicago. Her journalistic features, interviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in multiple print and web publications. In 2017, Bethel was the recipient of an AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship with poet Sandy Coomer (Available Light). Prior to that, she studied poetry under Kristina Marie Darling (Dark Horse) and Larry Sawyer (Vertigo Diary) at the Chicago School of Poetics and with Martha Vertreace-Doody (Glacier Fire) at Kennedy-King College. Bethel’s blog focuses on the topics of artivism, gratitude, and self-care. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Memoir Writers Association.