Leave Love in Every Room: A Poetry Collection

Three deaths in one month. A room full of grief. And a man who realized that presence - simply being fully there - is the most radical act of love available to any of us.

Leave Love in Every Room is the debut poetry collection from Joseph Lovehall - nine poems written from the margins of a real life. From the exhausted father of a nine-year-old who won't stop talking, to the veteran who came home to a parade and then a stack of rejection emails, to the husband who says more in a meal than he ever could out loud - these poems live in the tension between who we are and who we're trying to be for the people we love.

This is not poetry that performs. It's poetry that testifies.

Written in the tradition of spoken word, Leave Love in Every Room asks one question across ten poems: what does love look like when the feeling isn't enough to sustain it - and you choose it anyway?

For readers of accessible, honest poetry. For fathers, veterans, spouses, and anyone who has ever sat in a hard room and decided to stay.