Disarm: Poems & Songs

Publisher Marketing: Poems in different genres about family, nature, love and lust, society and social issues, working class jobs, stories and characters, and more selected from years of writing. Ava Collopy's poems and short stories are published in 'Down in the Dirt', 'In Our Own Words', 'Pulse Literary Journal', 'Ascent Aspirations', 'LanguageandCulture.net', and others. She's traveled through North America and Europe while doing different odd jobs, volunteer work, and giving blood many times. She is a happily life-long non-mother with many friends, who has oft enjoyed being a single independent female, a fact she proudly promotes to remind women everyone's free to make the choices that are right for them. This and her other books-'So ALL VOICES May Be Heard: Writing from and about Women' (which has a companion website and blog that are a response to women's discrimination against other women: allvoicesheard.weebly.com), 'Learning to be a Good Editor: by Adapting Novels into Screenplays', '8 Days a Week: the Story of Sean Flanagan, a Novel', 'Unity is Now: an Anthology of the UU* Poetry Group'-are available as E-book or Paperback from places like Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Easons, and elsewhere. Excerpts, Author Q&A, Photos, and more are on her website: dreamscaperealities.weebly.com She has a short video on YouTube where she talks about her books. Contributor Bio:  Collopy, Ava The inspiration for Ms. Collopy's novels draws from many sources; the beauty of nature and her love of road trips, music and the visual arts, sociopolitical debates, trying new activities, the search for Truth and understanding, and her desire to inspire others to think critically and form their own opinions. She is published in 'In Our Own Words', 'Pulse Online Literary Journal', 'LanguageandCulture.net', 'Ascent Aspirations', and others. She's from Oregon and has traveled through North America and Europe while working various jobs, doing volunteer work, and donating blood. She is a happily life-long non-mother with many friends, who has oft enjoyed being a single independent female for long periods of time, a fact she proudly promotes to remind women no one's obligated to have kids, or be co-dependent, despite social pressures.