Poetry

"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor...

Make it Shine! is a celebration and appreciation of language diversity and poetic forms such as dub-wise and narrative poetry poised for performance. The reader becomes engaged through the rhythms of speech and humour whilst identifying with a character...

MAIDEN navigates holy themes of longing and purpose with adventurous instinct, applying steady tone to vibrant images of the complex intensity that is existence. travis leads an expedition to the most human places of the divine, removing the shame from...

Love, Life and Kingdom is a collection of poetry written by Julian Vaughan Hampton. They reflect who we were, acknowledge who we are, and celebrate who we are destined to become. Each of us has a place deep within our hearts that yearns to be understood...

This is a book of poetry about Love Fears and the Reality that we all go through. Love, Fear, Reality takes you on a poetic journey through the mind of a young, single man looking for Love, struggling with his Fears of searching for God while fighting...

Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's...

Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical...

Lost Body, Kept Soul encompasses insecurity, brokenness, joy, wholeness and more. It is an inside look into the author's transition in to becoming the woman she was always destined to be. Through poetry Jasmine loses herself to rediscover who she truly...

Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon. . . . and we'd do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing we were the weapon ourselves, Stronger than steel, story, and...

A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy,...

Lighting the Shadow is about a woman's evolving journey through desire, grief, trauma, and the peculiar historical American psyche of desire and violence. These poems explore the international and psychological wars women survive--wars inflicted through...

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in...

Live Through My Eyes is an inspirational poetry collection from the perspective of an African American woman striving for healing, growth and ultimately, transformation after personal tragedy. Expressed through themes of relationships and identity,...

Matthew 18:2-4 (KJV) 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever...

Her poems speak volumes to the everyday experiences and lessons in life in her own genuine way. Ayana uses her urban messages to reach her audience in a way with the truth, the ugly, and that thing that makes you strive to be an amazing human.As you read...