Retain.

Recite.

Restore.

A woman wearing a red dress and matching red gloves sitting on a bench holding a flyer that says 'Just Like Her' with an illustration of a pregnant woman, and several copies of the flyer on the bench.
A woman with braided hair, dressed in a long black dress, reading from a book at a microphone on stage with beige curtains in the background.
A woman with short curly hair, wearing red lipstick and hoop earrings, stands outside holding several white notebooks with gold writing. She is dressed in a white lace dress with puffy sleeves and a black ribbon tie. There are orange and yellow flowers in front of her and a glass storefront behind her reflecting buildings and street lights.

Chrysalis with Raging Possum Press

Chrysalis includes over 200 poems that capture the developmental stages and progress as a beginning poet. Witness growth through format, consistency, design, rhyming, purpose, and content.

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"Fruits of My Labor"
$15.00

This epistolary body of work includes an analyzation of what devotion means in regards to my future children and the success of their childhood. Use of fruits as a metaphor for learning outlines the books main features.

"Just Like Her"
$15.00

This flash fiction poetic prose chapbook, includes a genre created by the author. This story details a woman who becomes pregnant at the same age her mother was pregnant with her. Follow her through her journey of discovering if she is just like her…

"I Love You More"
$15.00

“I Love You More,” is a poetry chapbook filled with 10 poems detailing times in my life when I loved something or someone more than they were able to love me back.

The Silver Cherry Publishing

In 2024 The Silver Cherry Publishing was established in debut with my first chapbook, “I Love You More.” Since then, “Just Like Her,” and “The Fruits of My Labor ,” and a full length poetry book, “Chrysalis,” have been published by Imani Warren. The mission is to self-publish poetry and prose in order to add creativity into how and what we publish as members of the publishing world. Fostering the past in order to enrich the future is the founding mission of the journey.

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Meet The Author

Imani Warren

St. Louis-born poet and editor specializing in chapbook self-publication and collaboration in the Chicago literary scene. While receiving her BA in Environmental Policy from Loyola University Chicago, she founded The Silver Cherry Publishing, releasing three handmade chapbooks. She has also published a full length poetry book, Chrysalis, with Raging Possum Press. Imani has been focusing on poetry performance and event curation as her career progresses.

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If someone wanted a recipe to love you, what would they need? What should they do? I have become a chef as of late. I’ve been baking Loving Imani Cake👩🏾‍🍳 - Loving Imani Cake 1 cup of attention ½ cup of adoration 1 tsp. of ever
A few more poems were published on the site last week! Get your weekly fill of poetry🤞🏾thesilvercherrypublishing.com Linked in the bio 🍒
Madame Starlet & the Stars Do It All! 🕺🏾 I wrote a performance review of @madamestarlet & @thestars.band this Saturday, April 4th, at Cubby Bear. I had the pleasure of connecting with the band on and offstage. “On Saturday April 4th
You sway in the wind I hate you for that fact You come and then you go Something like that Sometimes you stay Though not for long You could never be the one I count on Let’s count to three Let’s end this thing! 1…2&hel
A reflection! - It feels erotic when you leave I touch the warm door handle You were here I can remember that
Tomorrow is the Full Moon so things are changing, culminating. Things are new and fresh. Potential. What does this poem mean to you?! I can’t quite figure it out🍒 - Pre-Frontal Cortex Pigs bathing in dirt, then licking themselves clean Ext
Always for intensity, always, in all ways.
WHAT IF GOD WORSHIPS ME INSTEAD? & PRAYS TO ME ON HER KNEES… Cooking up prints + ideas keep flowing! Inspired by the last slide. Please tell me your favorite🍒🫶🏾 I can’t decide
I AM & A message meant to be read out loud by the powerful. One of my new prints! Which is your favorite?🤨 Also song of the season is Already Won by @earthsignchels 🕺🏾
Josephine Baker is the single most motivator of my lifetime. I discovered her when I was 9 as she was my famous Missourian for Famous Missourian’s Day at school. It was then I knew, I’d study her for a lifetime. Josephine Baker lives on
I LOVE MY TEETH. WHY MUST I BITE?! Which is your fav? 🪽
Check out the new website thesilvercherrypublishing.com to get access to some freshly released poems that haven’t been posted & a few familiar favorites. Link in bio🍒