Cleveland, Ohio
Penny
Simmons.
Author. Performance Poet. Speaker.
I don’t write to be quiet.
I write to survive.
Poet. Mother. Speaker.
Voice forged in fire and turned into fuel.
penned down.
Read it. Feel it. Flinch.
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In the Shadow
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A memoir in poetry. Motherhood, survival, and the woman living inside both.
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Find your corner of the Pennyverse
One voice.
Room to echo.
01 / On the page
Books that meet you here.
Poetry, novels, children’s books, and guided journals. Every book is a bruise I made beautiful.
Explore the collection02 / In the roomStep into the fire.
Raw poems. Live performances. Nothing watered down.
Poetry & performances03 / In the makingWhere creatives become.
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Enter the Pennyverse
One powerful stanza
I cracked before I bloomed,Read more poems
and the petals had the audacity
to cut back.
Don’t call it healing.
Call it survival in stilettos.
Call it truth with teeth.
About Penny
Cleveland-born.
Chaos-forged.
Empire-bound.
Penny writes like her sanity depends on it—because sometimes, it does.
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