Poetry

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto... blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and...

Dead Lion's Don't Roar is a collection of inspiring and motivating modern-day verses. Addressing many issues close to home and also many taboo subjects, the poems reflect today's struggles and light the way to a positive future. This uplifting book will...

Dead Dogs Don't Bark is the second poetry collection from the acclaimed author Tolu' A. Akinyemi. With a similar tone and style to Dead Lions Don't Roar (Tolu's first poetry collection), this follow-up masterpiece is nothing short of pure motivation.The...

Dead Cats Don't Meow urges its readers not to waste their ninth life...the author of the collection of poetic wisdom for the discerning adds his third compendium of poems to the bookshelves alongside Dead Lions Don't Roar and Dead Dogs Don't Bark. Tolu A...

This was written by me as an introspective blessing, lesson, and understandings that I have grown to embody. It is written with the perspectives in mind, meant to inspire growth. These works contain gems I have gathered from my teenage self that I wish I...

Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Award for Lesbian PoetrydayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. Growing up, Roya Marsh was...

Like carving stone, DARKER SISTER sculpts the experiences of one American woman into effigies impossible to forget. DARKER SISTER extracts the splinters left by second-class citizenship and whittles them down to righteous anger, tolerant teaching and,...

Crossroads is a collection of inspirational poetry writings depicting some of life's circumstances, deceptions, blinders, relationships, separation of loved ones, and oh yes, a ray of hope, joy, and peace from the true love source - God Almighty. His...

This sensuous and visually tantalizing collection of erotic prose bears witness to the fact that this young woman's mind is exotically mature to a degree that only some can only dream to achieve. Sanquinetta's poems speak to the very essence of her...

They are writing down their feelings to put into the civil feelings jar, scuttling with amendments asking for an ultrastrength, longer-lasting solution homes, names, and host categories renegotiated. I've been exhausted my entire life --from Sonnet (18)

The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, now available in paperback We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness.Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain,...

Cradles is a collection on the nature(s) and nurturing that cradle us. Womb, the first section, is the first cradle, both 'nature' and 'nurture', under-acknowledged and often unmentioned. Beyond the grand and intricate physical womb of individuals, there...

From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America* Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * One Book One New Orleans 2017 Book...

The American Poets Project series continues with this stunning collection from a major--and sometimes controversial--figure of the Harlem Renaissance In his early twenties, Countee Cullen emerged as a central figure in the tumultuous, defiant, intensely...

I'm Thalamus' Ink. I hope that you enjoy "Come Morning". Born of both fantasy and imagination I am sure that as you read there will be no need to look any further than yourselves for the facts and the truths. There is always a smidgeon of fact in...

Rita Dove's Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume...