Poetry

Are you in need of some healing? Has the world treated you unfairly at some point in your life? You have come to the right book. Jordan Wells has done it again. He has created a collection of poetry that goes in-depth about our humanity, how...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themes I'm made of murderers I'm madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poor and a whole / Family the mother'sliver and her lungs In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane...

In a time where financial turmoil is the norm, and faith seems to be a dying notion, Stanley Pitchford brings hope in the form of lyrical verses and poetry. Between these folds lies the motivation to keep moving in these unfortunate times, the vulnerable...

Cameron Barnett's poetry collection, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (winner of the 2017 Rising Writer Contest), explores the complexity of race and the body for a black man in today's America.

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together...

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together...

The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y...

A profoundly moving work that liberates our preconceived notions of theology, literature, and poetry. Chaz speaks to our collective conscience in the necessity and beauty of reorienting our vision; from the top to the bottom. With each successive...

The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States* Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize *You are pure appetite. I am pureAppetite. You are a phantomIn that far-off city where daylightClimbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.--from...

The Black Sky: Songs to Black Excellence is a collection of poetry that honors the black experience in America. The poems tell the story of the struggles and victories of African Americans in their quest for equal rights. The songs focus on the history...

The Black Sky: Songs to Black Excellence is a collection of poetry that honors the black experience in America. The poems tell the story of the struggles and victories of African Americans in their quest for equal rights. The songs focus on the history...

Poems following a Black queer woman as she seeks refuge from an unsafe world. Carly Inghram's poems explore the day-to-day experiences of a Black queer woman who is ceaselessly bombarded with images of mass-consumerism, white supremacy, and sexism, and...

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as...

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as...

The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery...

From acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist. "All my life, I've written these words with no thought or...