Poetry

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. After ten years of performing her spoken word poetry, Ariana Brown gathers her favorite poems to return to in her chapbook SANA SANA. With a tender and critical...

This work is a collaborative effort between my nephew and myself. Probably somewhere around 2007 my nephew and I began sharing poetry with one another. I always appreciated and really enjoyed his work. Back in 2017, after our conversation about...

The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole...

I take Liberties--poetic--and take License to relate her story In her voice, to tell History Who she was--as I hear her say Or sing. [...] But still you will come face-to-face With a Portia, whose life outshines All brilliance this black ink...

Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup is a celebration and lamentation of womanhood, motherhood, teaching, identity, oppression and justice, loss and love, and Carla's attempt to grapple with challenges that run the gamut from Flint to fibroids with wit,...

These Pearls Are Real is about love and liberation. This medley of poems exalts the joys of childhood, self-acceptance, falling in love, grappling with gun violence, cultural appropriation, police brutality, and the neglect of the mentally ill. This...

Let Me Take Y'all Back tells the tales of different individuals' life experiences in a raw and authentic poetic style. You will be taken on a journey through each unique story shared with the author in real conversations. This is a collection of their...

The love poems in Honeysuckle Me are odes to girlhood, the art of dance, romance, passion, the beauty of Black women and their historical resilience, and a reminder that privileged white male patriarchy and oppression are ultimately doomed to fail.

This second edition of Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings published by ii Publishing is a collection covering a myriad of topics from jazz music to a moving tribute to loss of a loved one. Carla pours her heart into the pages of this debut poetry...

Most of the time we get the mother's perspective when dealing with children. A Father's Cry is just the opposite of that, it's a father's perspective on life how he deals with everything. Also, it tells you how a father really feels about his children...

"Things I Wish I Could Tell You is a heartfelt and heartwarming book in which Casanova Green uses everything he knows of American vernacular and black storytelling. These poems tell like secrets. This is a book interested in forgiveness and salvation." -...

A book filled with poetry meant to uplift and encourage you to be a better you! Light a candle, grab a drink and let my words carry you on an emotional journey shared by so many.

In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina region where she was born and raised. The prized Carolina Gold rice paradoxically made South...