Poetry

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things brown in this powerful new collection. "Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed." --The...

In the past ten years, Terry E. Carter has established himself as a durable and authentic voice in American poetry. Through his writing, he offers insightful and spirited commentary on faith, culture, community and the Black Experience. In this fifth...

Brown Skin and the Brand New Day: A Poet's Renaissance is the third volume in Terry's series of poetic reflections and brings his love of poetry, art, music, Black culture, and God full circle. In this collection, the rhymes flow freely and love is the...

A book of collective poems that have been inspired by different experiences in relationships. It contains themes that fall in the categories of being healed, wanting love, being in love, hurt by love, you know better than that, insecurities,...

boy, the debut poetry collection by Donny Jackson--veteran poet, clinical psychologist, and Emmy Award-winning documentary television producer--is an awakening on an ocean floor of othering, be it color or gender or place, and rise from personae, to...

Samantha King Holmes brings forth a raw, original perspective. A collection of poetry that breathes hope into the idea of love while mourning the human condition of seeking out connections, sometimes with the wrong people. Her verse takes the readers on...

For fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King's raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human "curse to feel." Her verse transports readers to the most private reaches of love and longing. Born to Love, Cursed to Feel is about...

Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one...

A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement...

"yrsa daley-ward's bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind." --nayyirah waheed, author of salt.   From the celebrated poet Yrsa...

Blue Bird is Canadian storyteller Magda Ayuk's debut collection of poetry and prose. Blue Bird is the necessary and enduring journey of self-love. Ayuk explores this journey through the intersectional pulses of freedom, race and gender. Blue Bird is the...

"These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's...

Black Genocide explores the African reality in a country that sells the American Dream through poetry written from 2009-2016. It gives a reflection of an African-American man living in "Obama's America". "I have felt the steel of handcuffs around my...

Black Inferior is a collection of poems divided into 2 parts. The first part is a collection of thematically linked poems exploring Blackness and the myriads of issues it attracts. The second part oscillates themes- talking about consent, a query of...

A remarkable and delightful variety of poetic languages is displayed throughout the work: songs, hymns, invective, elegy, sermons, polemic, and prose poetry. It is rich in historical and literary associations and is at the same time accessible to all.

A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.