Pieces of Me

Some poems are memories. Some are questions. Some are scars that learned how to speak. Written across more than three decades, Pieces of Me brings together poetry Chad M. Kiser first wrote as a teenager with reflections from the man who returned to those words years later. Across four acts—The First Pieces, The Fragile Pieces, The Fractured Pieces, and The Final Pieces—the collection moves through identity, adoption, love, faith, loss, heartbreak, fatherhood, healing, and the long work of understanding who we become. These poems were never meant for publication. They were written because a young man needed somewhere to put what he could not yet explain. Years later, they became a conversation between who he was, what he survived, and the man he became. Pieces of Me is an intimate journey through the words we write when we're searching for ourselves—and what we discover when we're finally ready to read them again. Then. Now. Always.