Poetry

Homicide, drug abuse, and AIDS-related deaths have forced black male life expectancy into a steady decline. In New York City, black males have long been considered expendable. Young men who feel they have run out of options, whose bravado indicates they...

One of the Midwest's finest slam poets, Osayande brings his work to the written page and delivers a lyric exploration of everyday life in Detroit in his debut full-length collection Class. In his voice you can hear and feel the lineage of some of...

In a look at what makes a black man in today's society, Osayande brings us through central questions of belonging, love, and happiness in his native home of Detroit. In his largest collection of poetic pieces yet, the renowned Detroit performance poet,...

As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes's...

What happens when love becomes a show?Circus puts love on display for the whole world to gawk at. Life is a bizarre circus, from personal relationships to the political sphere. It is beautiful, and tragic, and chaotic, made up of a million silent moments...

This Christian spoken word poetry book will "move" you to examine your soul. These words will make you think. These poems will force you to examine your life, your focus and your calling. We love God Everyone has sinned Christians are not perfect. Do...

Zimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude to...

Running through this web of thoughts. She stopped and realized she was running in place. Only through facing the pain. Could she allow herself to heal. Caught in a Web of Scattered Thoughts is a therapeutic journey of love and pain, growth and...

Siena Press presents "CARMINA: The Nomad Odes, the follow-up collection of poetry from poet Juan-Paolo Perre, author of the Legacy Poetry Prize-winning book, "A Confederacy of Joy". A highly-anticipated collection of lyric poetry issuing forth from...

Siena Press presents "CARMINA: The Nomad Odes, the follow-up collection of poetry from poet Juan-Paolo Perre, author of the Legacy Poetry Prize-winning book, "A Confederacy of Joy". A highly-anticipated collection of lyric poetry issuing forth from...

Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African...

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters...

April 2, 20143:57am-5:00amJust know that you can call Him, Jesus our Savior, anytime. Whether it's early in the morning, or late at night. He is waiting for your call. He never takes a nap or sleeps. His direct number is J-E-S-U-S. Dial Him up. He is...

Poetry collection by devorah major, San Francisco's third Poet Laureate. Poet's Statement: The state of California was named after Queen Califia. It is said that Africans came across sea currents to arrive in South America and then moved east and west...

Butcher is a book about love & loss -- about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores...

but is a womanist and hip-hop ode to seeing and honoring the humanity of the one who persists on the journey to the other side of but. It is a personal account of abuse, love, femininity, and redemption.Divided into four chapters and written by Tove,...