Poetry

Songs of the heartComes from deep within...These I'll share with youIt's your heart I'm trying to win.... My heart cries out, my friendIt has much to share with you...Listen to what it has to sayYou may have been there too.... There's joy to be sung...

World renowned performer and top-selling author and two-time National Slam Poetry Champion, Anis Mojgani has combed through out-of-print editions to put together Songs From Under the River, a best-of collection for his third Write Bloody release. Popular...

The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to Vienna to meet "bad-boy" genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer's subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George,...

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of...

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than halfOf life is death but I can't dieEnough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems,...

In her second poetry collection, something sweet & filled with blood, melissa christine goodrum demonstrates a growing talent. Drawing from her experience in a musical family, a deep well of feeling, and expansive knowledge of art and art history, she...

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize The poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the...

"Momma Brenda has a voice and style that takes you to church. There is a strong Black sensuality in her delivery that penetrates the surface and goes directly to the soul. Her lyrics are testimonials to many of our trials and tribulations. What she's...

The contemporary athletic shoe has experienced an evolution comparable to man. What began as necessity matriculated to style, then morphed into a culture with its own multicultural identity. Sole Food, through the vehicle of sneaker culture addresses...

From Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes a collection of poetry and prose exploring the self, joy, blackness, gender, matters of the heart, spirituality, the experience of Diaspora, and above all, how we survive. Told in five parts, soft magic is a...

Keli Stewart's profound, visceral and heady debut poetry collection is simultaneously autobiographical memoir and social commentary in conversation. The narrator of Small Altars is at different times a girl learning from her elders and ancestors; a young...

There is strength under your feeteven if you believethe floor will crumble.Skulls and Hibiscus invites those affected by mental health struggles on a journey of self-reflection. These poems serve as a guide to rediscovery within oneself. By acknowledging...

Strong black women in America for centuries have been holding it down. As a progeny from you, I would like to personally thank our black sistas, black mothers and black leaders for raising us in a society which has been constant attempt to separate and...

THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last...

From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves. A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.

She Lives In Music is a nourishing of the soul, spirit and mind collection by Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson. You can't help but tap your feet and groove with the elements in the brave but confident voice of Vocab. With some Parliament riffs, melancholic...