You are invited to join us in celebration of the publication of Unhoused – Yearning for Home.
Join us as we discuss the book and the “whys” behind this anthology.
Meet contributors, listen to readings by contributors, and more.
Unhoused – Yearning for Home has meaning no matter where a person is from, where they live, or how they live their lives. Unhoused open eyes and asks questions. Unhoused points out what we all find in some aspects of our lives.
If you would like to be prepared for the launch by reading ahead, you can purchase your copy by going to ProlificPulse.com where the links to many online stores are available.
There are some Kindle events coming up as mentioned here:
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About Unhoused – Yearning for Home
UNHOUSED – Yearning for Home is a powerful and deeply human anthology exploring the realities of homelessness, displacement, migration, statelessness, and the universal search for belonging. Through evocative poetry, poignant flash writing, true stories, and compelling artwork, this collection gives voice to those who have experienced the loss of home—whether through war, poverty, immigration struggles, discrimination, economic hardship, or social instability—and to those who bear compassionate witness to these experiences.
Far beyond politics and headlines, UNHOUSED – Yearning for Home focuses on the emotional truths behind displacement: the grief of losing safety, the ache of isolation, the resilience required to survive, and the enduring hope of finding connection, identity, and peace. The anthology shines a light on the invisible struggles faced by unhoused and marginalized individuals around the world while honoring their courage, humanity, and determination to endure.
Editors Jia-Li Yang and Candice Louisa Daquin are both immigrants with extensive experience working in homelessness and crisis support services. It was their inspiration that drew the interest of Prolific Pulse Press LLC. This collection continues the press’s tradition of publishing meaningful social justice anthologies that amplify underrepresented voices. All four editors offer a glimpse of their experiences in the foreword.
Raw, compassionate, heartbreaking, and hopeful, UNHOUSED – Yearning for Home invites readers to look beyond stereotypes and statistics to witness the deeply personal realities of what it means to search for safety, stability, and a place to call home.
A portion of the UNHOUSED – Yearning for Home proceeds will benefit The Women’s Center of Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina.
When someone you love is diagnosed with late-stage cancer, language shifts.
Ordinary words—appointment, waiting room, prognosis—take on new gravity. Time bends. Conversations sharpen. Silences grow louder.
In Cancer Courts My Mother, LindaAnn LoSchiavo transforms that altered landscape into poetry that is intimate, unsparing, and profoundly human.
When Cancer Enters the Family
This is not a clinical account of illness.
It is a daughter’s reckoning.
A caregiver’s vigil.
A complicated love story between mother and child—layered with devotion, resentment, memory, humor, and the quiet tenderness that surfaces when the end approaches.
Across 25 poems, LoSchiavo gives voice to:
The exhaustion of caregiving
The ache of unresolved history
The strange flashes of beauty inside sorrow
The love that refuses to leave
Her poems do not look away. But they also do not surrender to despair.
Instead, they ask:
What does it mean to accompany someone to the threshold? How do we hold grief and grace in the same hand? What remains when words fail?
Why Readers Are Saying Yes
Readers and reviewers have described the collection as:
“Candid and unflinching.”
“A testament to complicated love.”
“Tender without sentimentality.”
“A lyrical exploration of resilience.”
The poems resonate because they speak to universal themes—loss, reconciliation, anger, hope, and the stubborn persistence of love—even as they remain deeply personal.
If you have ever:
Managed medications and memories
Struggled with unfinished conversations
Loved someone through decline
You will recognize yourself here.
A Voice of Candor and Grace
LindaAnn LoSchiavo writes with clarity and restraint. Her lines are spare yet resonant. Her images—closets, gardens, corridors, dance-like metaphors of movement and stillness—carry emotional weight without excess.
There is sorrow here.
But also wit.
There is anger.
But also forgiveness.
And, perhaps most powerfully, there is presence.
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If you’re curious about the emotional depth and artistry of this collection, we invite you to experience it for yourself.
Let these poems accompany you—whether you are navigating illness, remembering someone you’ve lost, or simply seeking language for the complexities of love.
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