Collection: Poetry

LILITH, BUT DARK reveals a series of confessions and penances, exploring a southern Black woman's tour through lover's lament. It explores intimacies from home to...

This award-winning poetry collection includes sixteen poems that tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life seen through the eyes of a child,...

A macabre novel in verse of loss, longing, and identity crises following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of...

A collection of poetry for kids from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield! Thinker isn't just an average puppy―he's a poet. So is...

The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a...

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.Mama, I made it/out of...

"I wonder, then, what freedom is. Is it a place? Is it a thought? Can it be stolen? Can it be bought?"As powerful as it...

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your...

New and selected poems from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon...

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau)Winner of the Bollingen PrizeFinalist for the National Book Award A Treatise on Stars extends...

In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a...

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online...

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...

Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this...

The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak.The real-life story of a relationship in...

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with...

A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her...

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night--the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets--is back in print...

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she...