Poetry

"God Lifted Me" is written to give my Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ all the glory, honor, praise, and gratitude my soul can muster. The poems reflect personal healing, affirmation, and validation. For five years, I have been bound by...

Felice Belle's Viscera is map and misdirection, evidence and contradiction, free will and fate at the blackjack table. A celebration of the multitudes without and within. In a world that expects women to take care of everyone else except themselves, and...

Daughter is a collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our bodies, and...

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winning author. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far--art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and...

Plumpp's new poems show his extraordinary sense of the movement of speech and the poetic line, his dazzling metaphors, and his ability to turn language inside out and upside down by looking within the words and rhythms of what we commonly say without...

Step into fantasy, take a good look.I can't go right now, my weekend is booked.Live by the sun, and love by the moon.Off to the stars as this story blooms. Close your eyes and fall in love. Get lost in the experiences of passion, loss, and growth that...

The definitive guide to a major African American poetThis volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra Poets...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes I'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungs In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane...

"Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless-Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman." --Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award A suburban...

An engaging and inspirational journey, "Shining Stars: Poems of Young Black Joy" is a celebration of the lives and achievements of Black youth. Young readers will be taken on an adventure through a variety of uplifting stories within its covers. Written...

This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His stated purpose at the time was to bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse. Beginning with the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who,...

An interactive journal that inspires us to choose a path of kindness and love in every moment, from singer-songwriter and poet Valerie June. How do we wake up and shine like a badass in a world full of heaviness and darkness? How do we find the joy in...

Lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices--from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism. Richard Hamilton's second poetry collection, Discordant, is a searing examination of injustice both within the United...