We Will Not Be Silenced Launch Event II

Join us for our second launch event on Facebook! December 7 at 7pm-10pm The editors and contributors are concluding a week of events in honor of the publication of We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art. Our live events are …

Introductions- Christine Ray

I am survival etched on my skin in black ink pierced through my cartilage and lobes with silver rings and studs I am survival knit into my scalp under salt and pepper hair cropped close when I decided I was more than long curly locks no one’s eye candy I am survival visible in the …

Let’s Make a Deal- Christine E. Ray

I edge further and further from the known the familiar shutting some doors firmly behind me with a sigh of resignation while others I ease quietly closed hesitant to reawaken my past I look for a yellow brick road or neon footprints to guide my steps but the faint sets of tracks are colorful chaos …

Split Infinities- Christine Ray

I fight so hard against the sign the good citizens insist should hang outside my door scratching at the carved letters until nails are torn fingers bleed letters ‘B’ and ‘i’ stained a deep rusty red that no amount of scrubbing will remove I have accepted more bitter pills than this. . . and yet …

Christine E Ray’s Composition of a Woman, out now!

Composition of a Woman is currently available on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca (Canada) and Amazon Europe ( Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr,Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.) It should be available of Book Depository and Barnes & Noble soon. Signed copies of Composition of a Woman are also available on the Sudden Denouement Etsy site. Watch this incredible video by Dena Daigle for taste of Christine E Ray's gorgeous work and unmatched talent: …

Christine E Ray’s Composition of a Woman

Composition of a Woman releases tomorrow, July 31st! ❤  

What Lies Beneath? Christine Ray

what lies beneath this skin no longer supple and new etched with time’s fine lines that radiate from tired eyes faintly shimmering scars that circle my neck and pelvis like ironic smiles black ink needled carefully over time marking territory finally and unequivocally mine? what lies beneath these ribs grown of mineral laced with steel …

Composition of a Woman- Coming July 2018

Blood Into Ink's own Christine Ray will be publishing her first book of poetry through Sudden Denouement Publishing in July 2018. "the loss of you punctured the night sky like tiny pinpricks on a black canvas covering the moon from view allowing only the smallest rays of cool silver light to feather touch my pale …

Muscle Memory- Christine Ray

suddenly unsettled when healing hands touch left side of bare abdomen images of stray cocks and cocked guns fill my head crowding out other more mundane thoughts unsure if these moving pictures that shrink me down to size belong to me bear my childhood initials buried memories floating to the surface from released fascia or …

Unforgotten- Christine Ray

elliptical movement of Mars’ orbit partially eclipsed the memories from view but Phobos Deimos shine bright tonight in the tight fold of marble arms across my chest taste of bitter bile that eats at the back of my throat fierce clench of my glass jaw refracting crimson light of twin moons I feel your shade …