This is My Wonderful Face

"Many of the faces children encounter in the media are filtered and edited. Beauty filter apps and heavily curated social media feeds are an everyday part of the landscape, and the pressure to fit in with unrealistic beauty standards is stronger than ever before. But in the real world, facial features come in all sizes, shapes, and forms. And each one has a job to do. Our facial features are responsible for the five senses and for making expressions that reflect our emotions. With art portraying a wide variety of facial features, author Miriam Moore-Keish celebrates all the important functions our faces can serve--supporting children as they form a stable self-image that honors the many amazing things their wonderful faces do each and every day."

Clearance Philosophy 

"Clearance Philosophy is a collection of poems about big things, small things, and all the big things hiding in the small things.

Moore-Keish balances the dark realities of Southern history with personal accounts of growing up in it, the complexity of faith and family with the importance of memory in connecting to them, and the gravity of change with the gravity of the unchanging. Clearance Philosophy, in its 'important nonsense,' draws attention to the act of writing poetry, using the craft to disrupt, honor, and remind readers that 'silent things can have poems too.'

Rooted in place, time, and memory, these are poems of human connection. In her lighthearted and conversational tone, Moore-Keish grieves lost innocence. She reveres carrots and cherishes dust. The poems in Clearance Philosophy ache as much as they laugh."