Part Time Blues - K.C. James Swain

Part Time Blues is a raw and unflinching poetry collection by K.C. James Swain that explores the fractures and rhythms of a life caught between struggle and survival, grit and grace.

These poems move like streetlights at dusk-sharp, fleeting, and glowing with memory. They speak of poverty and persistence, love and loss, faith and fire, all stitched together with humor and hard truth. Swain’s voice is both vulnerable and defiant, refusing to smooth the rough edges of experience, instead embracing them as the pulse of lived reality.

From moments of personal confession to social commentary, Part Time Blues confronts the noise and silence of our daily lives, asking what it means to endure, to resist, and to dream in the margins. It is a book for readers who crave poetry that is unpolished yet powerful, that wrestles with chaos but leaves space for hope.