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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how...

Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and...

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful...

This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton. Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive...

Winner of the National Book Award 2000. The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.   Lucille Clifton won the 2007...

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and...

An anthology of poetry by young people, edited by superstar poet and author of The Dead Emcee Scrolls and , said the shotgun to the head, Saul Williams....

From Whiting Award–winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic...

Exploring the interdisciplinary relationship between the writings of the queer, Black poet and activist Essex Hemphill and contemporary visual artAccompanying the eponymous exhibition at the...

A powerful debut and a lyric coming-of-age narrative that interrogates the myths we carry.   In Find Me When You're Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey...

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.   Rising...

Women and weed—welcome to the revolution!A bold collection of writing and photos celebrating the women who have taken the weed industry by storm, from cannabis...

This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbeceum, or Cotton Root Bark, which was used by enslaved Black women...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered...

Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood...

The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South...

Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed ‘bluesologist’ triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm...

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a...

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was...

A powerful mediation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic   Elegant, profound, and intoxicating-- Spectral Evidence,...

With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights...