Poetry

With unrelenting yet tender honesty, She Has a Name tells the story of a young woman with autism from multiple points of view. The speakers in these poems--sisters, mother, father, teacher--seek to answer questions science can't yet answer, seek to...

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual,...

Collected Poems, Volume 1, of celebrated Washington, D. C. poet Julia Watson Barbour, mother of twelve, who died on December 2, 2006. Her humane poetic insights, wry humor, unique profundities and outstanding readings live on - the latter in the Archive...

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.Shadows Uplifted collects and...

Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author's journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity;...

Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author's journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity;...

Senseless Murder is inspirational poetry that touches on issues from questioning life, love and sensuality to the murder of love and sensitivity in men. It also contains photographs taken by world renowned photographer, Jim Denise. "It's all about love...

Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.In radiant poems--set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of...

Scale is about a relationship between a father and a son. These poems consider the importance of acknowledging the past as well as the dangers in doing so.

This upbeat, one-of-a-kind collection brings the Def poets -- as featured in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show and popular HBO television program -- to life on the page. Among them: Suheir Hammad, Beau Sia, Steve Colman, Stacyann Chin, Mayda del...

Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down...

Gail's poems are inspirational and uplifting. They are powerful with deep meaning. They touch people's hearts and help them see things in a different light. Reaching words of thought, if we can't learn from each other, we can surely learn from God.Having...

Someone once told Molinda they wanted nothing more than to smooth her rough edges. She decided she needed her rough edges being a black woman and that she should expose them in her book of poetry. Rough_Edges will titillate your sensibilities with her...

Rose Petals for Josephine is the sequel to Secret Diaries of Jean Batiste. Jean takes a woman from the multitude, Josephine, and places her on personal public display. Chronicling the trials of love and loss, as well as its ups and downs, Jean Batiste...

"The inner city blues is not as rosy as it seems but has its own share of cynicism, disillusionment and skepticism...""Somehow it casts a spell on the city folk, who in spite of comprehending the situation are unable to come out of this vicious cycle.....

Dear God, You are the One that made this day possible. Thank You for trusting me to put words together to make a book. You have made me a part of history because I'm the first author in my family. God, I always wonder why You love me so much. God, please...