Poetry

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...

In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary...

Rising and Falling details the ups and downs of life, along with overcoming the problems that may come your way. It's an intimate and masterful look into the life of the author.

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even...