Hope in Hateful Times - Paperback

by Molly A. McDonough (Author)

Hope in Hateful Times is a poetry collection rooted in rage that refuses to rot into despair, and in the divine feminine freed from society's predatory shackles. It is an invitation to treat love as sacred and community as a deliberate act of resistance.

These poems confront genocide, misogyny, and weaponized religion without being crushed by their heaviness. Through a landscape of devastation, they weave a way of grief and wonder, planting wildflowers along the path for fiercely tender hearts to follow. Drawing from mythic lineage and sacred feminine power, this work honors community as salvation and hope as something feral, hard-won, and alive.

​​Lyrical and often rhymed, these poems carry a careful musicality rooted in poetic tradition, offered not as an assignment but as a hand reaching out in the dark. They balance political urgency with gentle intimacy, myth with modernity, and fury with humor and light.

This is poetry for readers who refuse to grow numb. For those who let their bruised souls bloom with blue violets.

For those who grieve, resist, love fiercely, and hold on to each other through it all.