Poetry

"Urgency and imagination, truth and focus: Jabari Asim brings those qualities together in a book of poetry that confronts the lethal face of racism: death-by-police. This book challenges the boundaries of the art by being, in a very good sense of the...

A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called one of the poetry stars of his generation (Los Angeles Times). We sleep long, / if not sound, Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems,...

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd Problems. Evans is a long-standing voice in the performance poetry scene, who has performed at venues across the country and been featured on numerous...

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom. A PEN America Literary Award Winner Jonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region,...

We are making our lives up "here on this bridge / between starshine and clay" (Lucille Clifton). Addressing tough circumstances tenderly, this book is about life--what we inherit, what we create, what shapes us, what's possible.

Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James--all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here)--are the presiding...

The first three chapbooks by poetry champion Kelsey Marie Harris. 'Fondled and Mangoed, ' 'The Jolly Queef, ' and 'Sex Wound' woven together as one brilliant collection. "They will try to tell you there are no voices. Listen to the voices."

Poems that imagine a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death. Shayla Lawz's debut collection, speculation, n., brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body...

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and...

Sparrow in the Machine is a collection of poems centering on personal growth, reflection, injustice, and love. Sparrows are wild and are adept at finding their way in the city or the countryside. A machine is cold and unyielding, which represents the...

In this striking anthology 40 poets from the Soul Sister Revue reading series, including Evie Shockley, Hanif Abdurraqib, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Cathy Linh Che, José Olivarez, and Patricia Smith, commemorate culture, Motown, and community, while...

soul poet: a book of fascinating micro-stories written in free verse, sonnets, and haiku-from an African American perspective. This journey begins with free verse, leading off with the Billy Collins-esque "King Étagère," and followed by poems like the...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily Jones Hudson was born and raised in Hazard, Kentucky. She graduated from Berea College in 1978 with a degree in English and went on to work as a reporter and women's editor for a weekly newspaper in Indianapolis. She worked as a...

Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God's...

Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God's...

Sonnets from My Soul is a collection of inspirational poems by Michelle Taylor-Jones, who has been writing in secret for decades. In this first edition, titled At Peace, Michelle shares some of her favorite sonnets on the subjects of courage, love,...