Poetry

This book is divided into THEMES instead of chapters, representing lessons learned, while combining an unshakable spiritual foundation that's been heavily relied upon. No matter the theme, INSPIRATION, coupled with an exuberance to write, continues to...

Verses is a lyrical glimpse into the life of a wife, mother, and career woman in the #MeToo era. Exploring the good, the bad, the ugly, and the in-between, it began as an inexpensive form of therapy and ended a battle cry for all women to stand up and be...

Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species closely related to humans. Humans are classified as Homo Sapiens. Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species known as Vampire Sapiens, a forgotten relative of man lost to history and lore. Thought to be erased from...

"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." --Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets FellowshipUrban tumbleweed, some people...

Prepare yourself for UPGRADED NEGRO 20.0 the second book from BROTHER HYPNOTIC. Featuring the tribute to black women SUPREME SISTA and the tribute to MICHAEL JACKSON HEAVEN'S GLAD YOU CAME. The short stories GHETTO LOVE, SPANISH HARLEM and the return of...

When you're lying awake at 4 am, it's the perfect time for those deep and intrusive thoughts to surface. For Davia and S.P., it's the opportune time for self-reflection and immersive imagination. In their first collaboration, authors Davia Chin and S.P...

We should all be forthright We must strive for what's right Be a stirring voice for the stigmatized Injustice warriors this is our fight Virtuous we should have an appetite Shared ideals we should all invite So fascinating how we are intertwined ...

UNSTEADY, Monique Ferrell's first full-length collection of poetry and dramatic monologues, is an examination of a life in progress. The verse in this collection delves deeply into such themes as race, class, violence, gentrification, sexuality,...

Unspoken Thoughts of Me: Focuses on life situations and events of what someone is going through or has been through. Throughout these pages this book will focus on the closeness of Jesus love, blessings and, mercy. Your situation is not your destination,...

Unpeopled Eden opens in Mictlán, the region of the dead in Aztec mythology, inviting us down into a world where "the men are never coming home" and "rows of ghosts come forth to sing." Haunted by border crossers and forgotten deportees, lost brothers and...

"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process." --Adrienne Rich

UNCERTAINTIES is a meditation on the care and quick of being alive at its defiant and elegiac full by one of the masters of the American poetic continuum. This cycle of 125 poems is composed principally in two-line stanzas, or couplets: A form seemingly...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...

Lived and Died.Born before his time, Tattooed with "Thug Life" no shame just pride.This soldier of misfortune with broken wings that flew high.He needed justice in all communities to be seen and heard not with ignorance but intelligent words. Until one...

Lived and Died.Born before his time, Tattooed with "Thug Life" no shame just pride.This soldier of misfortune with broken wings that flew high.He needed justice in all communities to be seen and heard not with ignorance but intelligent words. Until one...

Black. Muslim. Woman. An interconnected journey.This is a book of poems that combines the experience of being Black in the United States of America with the poet's personal journey as a Black Muslim Woman.