Conversations with Good Men

Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Swift’s poems compassionately explore the concept of man’s “goodness” in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety, depression, sexual assault, survivorship, and the pain that accompanies growth. Fans of poets from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to E.E. Cummings, to Rupi Kaur and Charly Cox will appreciate Swift’s brevity, wit, transparency, and heart in this collection.

Through poems including snippets of real and imagined (spoken and internal) dialogue between feminine and masculine voices, this collection examines the spiritual and practical complexity of awakening as a feminist while being in relationship with one’s faith, one's family, one's friends, one's lovers, and oneself as well as the impact that upbringing and belief, self-esteem and desire, betrayal and healing have on the process of learning to love, lose, and become open to loving again.

Praise for Convos:

“With unabashed honesty, Swift navigates the dangerous seas of love and intimacy. This collection is both a revelation and a revolution, shameless in depicting want, yet fiercely proclaiming powerful truth.” ~Sandy Coomer, author of Available Light and Rivers Within Us