Between My Silence and The Sound: Life Lessons In Poetic Form Hardcover – March 27, 2026

“Words are my super power,” author Shambreka Blakely boldly affirms in one of her poems. Her words could not be truer. With a refreshing honesty that both endears and disarms, Blakely allows a glimpse into her life in Between My Silence and The Sound. The etchings of her joys and pains which she skillfully invites the reader to see are not monuments, but instead display the fluid nature of love, anger, regret, arrogance, and desire.At a young age, Blakely began to understand that although her words were sometimes hard to express verbally, her pen never failed in its accuracy. It might have been a teenage girl’s angst over her mother’s rules that made no sense at the time, or the almost unbearable weight of grief from her truest friend’s too-soon departure, she makes the reader hungry for the next stanza. The marks of a true wordsmith manifest in this inaugural volume and leaves new audiences aching for those to follow.“I am so glad that I’ve always had writing as a safe place. I’ve never really shared my poems with too many people, but I am convinced that this is the right time and that perhaps my life experiences – my good decisions and my mistakes – can help someone else along their journey. The connection between the words on paper and the feelings in the soul is powerful, and I’m going to keep allowing this gift that I have to create a legacy in words that will last much longer than my lifetime.” Read more