{"id":19174,"date":"2026-04-15T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=19174"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:41:09","slug":"a-middle-aged-woman-rages-by-melissa-helton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/a-middle-aged-woman-rages-by-melissa-helton\/","title":{"rendered":"A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN RAGES by Melissa Helton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Accents Publishing is proud to announce that Melissa Helton&#8217;s first full-length poetry collection, A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN RAGES is set to release on 5\/15, exactly a month from now.<br>We believe that you will love this book and its powerful messages delivered with exemplary poetic craft! Preorder info to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With fierce energy and a creative use of poetic styles, these poems collaborate as an affirmation against the evils women face and as an entreaty to \u201cthrive in flux,\u201d to pay \u201cdeliberate, unceasing attention\u201d to everything in the world, \u201cas if it were holy.\u201d<br>\u2014Marianne Worthington, author of The Girl Singer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through these poems, I come to understand the middle-aged woman raging as a community spiritual worker\u2026. These poems are fearless and yet they understand the importance of<br>acknowledging our fears and telling what we must tell to survive.<br>\u2014Joy Priest, author of Horsepower<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her passion &amp; artistry left me awed, energized, &amp; ready to write. What more could you want?<br>\u2014George Ella Lyon, author of Back to the Light: Poems<br>Kentucky Poet Laureate 2015 \u2013 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Melissa-rage-front-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Melissa-rage-front-cover.png 546w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Melissa-rage-front-cover-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accents Publishing is proud to announce that Melissa Helton&#8217;s first full-length poetry collection, A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN RAGES is set to release on 5\/15, exactly a month from now.We believe that you will love this book and its powerful messages delivered with exemplary poetic craft! Preorder info to follow. With fierce energy and a creative use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[757,28,717,756,649],"class_list":["post-19174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-release","category-news","tag-a-middle-aged-woman-rages","tag-accents-publishing","tag-book","tag-melissa-helton","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19176,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}