“Tender, green seeds took root in my heart. Within days I erupted in rowdy blooms. Now when people look at me, all they see are wildflowers.
~ Infinite Sea of Stars
Shannon Crossman
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poet, fabulist & memoir writer
available on Amazon
Every poem is a love letter. And these letters are for you.
For all the times a piece of you was missing, for all the days you didn’t know where you belonged, for each tiny moment when you transformed—and still transform.
Infinite Sea of Stars is an ode to love and human resilience. A map of deep scars and faint laugh lines. Instilling an unwavering sense of hope into those who decide to dive soul-first into this mystical journey in book form.
It is a memoir someone else wrote about you. A diary you didn’t know you kept. The manual you needed but refused to open.
Crafted by decades of introspection and meditation practice, Shannon Crossman’s poetry is familiar yet enlightening.
This luminous collection will pave the reader’s way to self-love, acceptance, and inner growth, moving through the caverns of discontent and the soul’s oldest wounds to arrive at the trailhead of a life filled with deep joy and wonder.
Great for fans of Hafiz, Rumi, Chelan Harkin, and Adyashanti.
Praise for the book
"...adds a fresh perspective to the age-old topic of divinity."
— Manik Chaturmutha for Readers' Favorite
"...beautiful poems that delve into the wants, needs, and desires of the human heart."
— Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
"Deeply powerful words and thoughts."
— Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
"...an inspiring, spiritually charged collection of poetry. Confident and curious, while never proselytizing, the collection probes into the powers of praise and the infinite beauties that surround us every moment we're alive."
— Self-Publishing Review
"...a beautiful collection for mystics, seekers, and humans of all
stripes."
— Katherine Yacavone
"...evocative words, beautiful structure, and memorable turns of phrase…beautifully bridges the gaps between nature, spirit, our physical bodies, and the universe."
— Laura Lively, Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner
"An Infinite Sea of Stars is a joyful companion for anyone on their own pilgrimage toward healing and transformation."
— Erica Wheadon, writer and editor
"Reminiscent of Rumi and Hafiz...honors the human experience in all its seasons."
— Eva Xan, Best-selling Poetry Book Editor & Author of Esoterra
"Words in this book are lush and verdant, sweet and powerful, kind and inviting. Readers will be changed because of the poems' wisdom, inspiration, and depth. Playful and guiding, the words took me on journeys with the Feminine Divine--from outside myself to within, deep within--closer to the truth of who I am and who I desire to be."
— Dawn Morningstar, Co-Founder of New World Women
Coming Soon
Winter 2023 Release
Desire is Drunk Tonight: A collection of ecstatic erotic poetry for lovers: From author, poet, and fabulist, Shannon Crossman, comes a collection curated from over 350 pieces written to her partner in their early days of courtship.
At once passionate and romantic, Crossman wraps language around the heady intoxication of falling in love as an act of the corporeal and a form of sacred union between souls.
If attraction feels sacred to you, if you'd like to fan the flames of longing for physical and spiritual union, if you crave a deeper sort of intimacy...this book was made for you.
Also Published Here
A finalist in the 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards and the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Goddess When She Rules is the fourth anthology to emerge from the "Journey of the Heart Poetry Project." Contributors to this volume share moving personal stories, reflections and poetry exploring and defining the role the goddess plays in each of their lives. Through diverse and evolving relationships with archetypal goddesses, mythical goddesses and the inner goddesses they identify with most, women reveal when and how they feel intimately connected with the sacred feminine. Together, their words echo worldwide efforts aimed at ushering in a new paradigm for peace in which the feminine principles of creativity, receptivity, intuition and wisdom—independent of gender—rise to prominence. As we hear the authors reclaim might and magic, the resurgence of the goddess is unmistakable in their impassioned writings.
Hidden Lights is an anthology and a collaboration of over 50 experienced and novice writers sharing their stories and poems from around the globe. The poignancy of each contribution covers the depths and widths of human experiences often kept secret. The words in this book are real, raging and riveting.
Readers will be captivated by the poetry and essays which plunge to the taproot of soul and the psychology of Truths Not Often Told.
Each chapter details the bittersweet of humanity and crosses over stereotypes of gender, racial decree, suicide, justice, depression, grief and wrapping an inclusiveness in the cusp of being seen and heard.
About Shannon
SHANNON CROSSMAN is a poet, fabulist, and memoir writer.
Published in two anthologies, Goddess When She Rules and Hidden Lights, as well as online at The Urban Howl and Wildheart Writers, Shannon's work centers on themes of belonging, resilience, wonder, and the ecstatic.
Nothing excites her more than a blank page or an unexplored path through a solitary forest. Words and the natural world are and have always been, her way back home.
In her heart of hearts, she still believes in magic, craves the ocean like a landlocked mermaid, and dreams of a life without shoes.
Artist Statement
I write to ignite the imagination, open the heart, and encompass the full spectrum of emotions - from the delicate vulnerability of joy to the gnawing hunger of everything that aches in us.
My goal is to remind readers we are, in fact, big enough to hold the entirety of our existence.
I want my words to be a place of solace, a map home for the lost, a subtle light in the darkness, a spark of wonder eternally revealing itself amidst the hard edges of what it means to be human.
