Poetry

"Soulful Verses: Chronicles of Life, Struggle, and Redemption" is a poignant collection of poetry that delves into the depths of human experience. Through introspective reflections and powerful imagery, the book explores themes of suffering, identity,...

In a world where words can wound or heal, inspire or destroy, what we say and how we say it matters. "The Unyielding Weight of Words" is a captivating collection of poems that delves deep into the power of language and its impact on our lives. Each poem...

Poetry collection by Dasan Ahanu. Ahanu is an award-winning poet and performance artist, public speaker, community organizer, educator, scholar and emcee born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an Alumni Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard's Hip Hop...

In eel on reef, Uche Nduka challenges every expectation of an African poet. His unique voice is a heady amalgam of Christopher Okigbo, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Kamau Brathwaite, and that which only Nduka can bring. Uche Nduka was born and raised in...

Ephemeral yet tangible, bridging the delicate border between understanding and awe, Rodney Terich Leonard's poems live in the world even as they leave it, clinging like "a ribbon in the sand / Captivated by your ankle," that "Bojangles next to your chair...

What I Should've Texted is a collection of words that have been buried. A spill of hidden thoughts that never made their way out. This collection from poet Pierre Alex Jeanty is a beautiful expression of the unspoken things that needed to be said and...

Everybody has a story to tell, and this story is told in a most unique way-through the beauty, rhythm, and honesty of poetry.The author's story is one that has yet to be completed or even reach its peak, but he has experienced many things in his...

In Every Hard Sweetness, Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights' era atrocities through the story of her family's experience with an all-too-common practice in which Black men were wrongfully incarcerated in institutions for the criminally insane. The...

Lynne Thompson's Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women--their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods. The documentation of these...

Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison...

An open mouth...open to bear witness, to show what lives inside, to share what must come forward: the poems in this collection add one more voice to the human chorus that sings as proof of life - funky, messy, soulful, struggling, exhilarating life.

Through invention and remembrance, a little bump in the earth creates a black town on a hill--its land, its losses, its living and ancestral dead.Tyree Daye's a little bump in the earth is an act of invention and remembrance. Through sprawling poems, the...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and...