PrefaceDear Family and Friends,Yes I am excited? This year we have aligned our vision with that of UNESCO as it honors and acknowledges a variety of Global Indigenous cultures. We are now in our sixth year of publication. As are on our way to hitting another milestone. Needless to say, I am elated. Our initial vision was to just perform at this level for the year of 2014. Since that time we have had the blessed opportunity to include many other wonderful word artists and storytellers in the Poetry Posse from lands, cultures and persuasions all over the world. We have featured hundreds of additional poets, thereby introducing their poetic offerings to our vast global readership. In keeping with our effort and vision to expand the awareness of poets from all walks by making this offerings accessible, we at Inner Child Press International will continue to make every volume a FREE Download. The books are also available for purchase at the affordable cost of $7.00 per volume.In the previous years, our monthly themes were Flowers, Birds, Gemstones, Trees and Past Cultures. This year we have elected to continue the Cultural theme. In each month's volume you will have the opportunity to not only read at least one poem themed by our Poetry Posse members about such culture, but we have included a few words about the culture in our prologue. The reasoning behind this is that now our poetry has the opportunity to be educational for not only the reader, but we poets as well. We hope you find the poetic offerings insightful as we use our poetic form to relay to you what we too have learned through our research in making our offering available to you, our readership. In closing, we would like to thank you for being an integral part of our amazing journey.Enjoy our amazing featured poets . . . they are amazing!Building Cultural Bridges of Understanding . . .Bless Up . . . From the home in our hearts to yoursBillThe Poetry PosseInner Child Press IneternationalPSDo Not forget about the World Healing, World Peace Poetry effort. Available herewww.worldhealingworldpeacepoetry.comFor Free Downloads of Previous Issues of The Year of the Poetwww.innerchildpress.com/the-year-of-the-poet