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The Crown Ain't Worth Much
The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular...
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls
The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
The Dead Emcee Scrolls
The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged...
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The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberation from the phantasm of Black womanhood. Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance,...
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The Depths of Anima
Poems & Art
The Depths of Anima is an introspective look at Black girlhood and the transition into womanhood. It challenges Carl Jung's concept of "anima" by introducing an interpretation...
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The Essential June Jordan
"...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as...
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems
Beautyis a fat black womanwalking the fieldspressing a breezedhibiscusto her cheekwhile the sun lights upher feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight...
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The Future of Black
Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
The Future of Black
Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics’ characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a...
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The Hill We Climb
An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb
An Inaugural Poem for the Country
A special standalone edition of the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden,...
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The How
Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
The How
Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become Yrsa Daley-Ward's...
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The Hurting Kind
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón....
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The Limitless Heart
New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)
The Limitless Heart
New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)
Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work...
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The Little Deaths
Poems
In The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the...
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The Monumental Misrememberings
the monumental misrememberings is a meditation on death. It’s a curious insight on the creative and violent ways in which Black girls, women, trans women and...
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The Moon That Turns You Back
Poems
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the...
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The New Negro Aesthetic
Selected Writings
The New Negro Aesthetic
Selected Writings
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic...
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The New Testament
Jericho Brown ushers the body from political and religious battlegrounds, employing the rhythms of sexuality and spirituality to protest oppression. Jericho Brown worked as the...
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The Poet X
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina,...
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The Renunciations: Poems
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift...
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded—a...
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Edited by Roxane Gay
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Edited by Roxane Gay
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described...
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The Sobbing School
The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose "astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable" (Tracy K. Smith)The Sobbing School, Joshua...
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The Space Between Men
(Pre-Order, Oct 1 2024)
The Space Between Men
(Pre-Order, Oct 1 2024)
A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker....
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The Study of Human Life
A third collection that reveals an acclaimed poet further extending his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition,...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava...
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