Poetry

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...

This is more than a book of poems written by Willie Myrtle Stewart. It is a life history of a journey taken by an African-American woman who spent 99 years on this planet. The lyrics and memoirs are a window of that journey.This publication is dedicated...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes "a kaleidoscopic...

A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow After the afterlife, there's an afterlife. In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves,...