Poetry

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of self. Through poetry and short essays, unfold shows...

Kim Braxton (AKA) Kacee Kemiah is an American poet and Spoken Word Artist. As an empowered African-American woman, she seeks to share her life experiences with others with the aim of fostering understanding and tolerance. Her poems and book reflect...

Cynthia Manick's poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories...

Darius Simpson's debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is...

Winner of the American Book AwardA classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition A lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.-- Maya Angelou Originally...

New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, presents a revised and expanded edition of his bestseller I Hope This Reaches Her in Time. There will come a time when the weariness of your soul will urge you to seek out a sign, some sort of indication that...

Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deeply historical, Redmond's latest collection details how...

In his daring sophomore collection, Nathan McClain interrogates his speaker's American heritage, history, and responsibility. Investigating myth, popular culture, governance, and more, Previously Owned connects a villanelle cataloging Sisyphus's circular...

A care package, left by r.h. Sin, found by you. From New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, comes a care package of two new poetry and prose collections boxed together in an elegant slipcase.

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of...

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY   Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability...

Mahogany L. Browne's evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind.I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is bound...

No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional...

Heard's sojourn in Tulsa and the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre comes to a head in these poems that investigate the incident's resounding trauma with lyric and historic precision. The absence of reckoning a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre...