Collection: Poetry

"Cheryl Clarke's ongoing gumption continues to ask us how loudly and proudly will we do what we do." --Alexis Pauline Gumbs These times need urgently...

A landmark collection of love poetry by the most widely published African American poet of her time, tracing the arc of a queer relationship and...

An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together...

Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan.First...

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.Songs...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...

This zine situates study itself as an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom work by tracing the enduring legacy of David Walker's An Appeal to the...

From the U.S. Poet Laureate and author of the award winning picture book, Remember, this luminous and lyrical story reminds readers to cherish their place in...

The deep wounds in god's dream await meholding a silver sign with my name on it This bilingual edition, created as an active collaboration between...

A debut collection that examines US-Cuba tensions, transnational Black identity, and revolutionary gatheringsKyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of...

  LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then...

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty,...

A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. SmithThe forest in Tracy K....

An inspirational keepsake from the multiple award-winning writer and activistDynamic and legendary, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is one of the most esteemed poets in...

Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives:...

BURNED is a collection of stories, poems, essays, and artwork exploring fire-in ways both real and imagined-and its impact on our lives. Fire is humanity's...

The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail is a provocative collaboration between Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri and renowned artist Rosemary Clunie. Pushing the possibilities of...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and...

In the tradition of Claudia Tate's classic book, re-envisioned for the 21st century, Khadijah Queen showcases fifteen leading Black women writers who are influencing the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the...

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More...

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years...

In Black Aliens, Joanna Davis-McElligatt examines extraterrestrial and interdimensional aliens in Black speculative media and culture, reading them as figural representations of a cosmic diasporic experience and...