Collection: Poetry

"Jason Allen-Paisant deftly inscribes his own signature on worlds inner and outer in these gorgeous poems. The future of Caribbean lyric poetry is in great...

"In My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper, Alyesha Wise invites us into stories that are as raw as they are healing. Through themes of family,...

Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality.   Kameryn Alexa Carter is a poet and founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for...

From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona 'Tank' Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into...

Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as...

Winner of 2024 Sarabande 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Edward Salem's Intifadas is a subversive collection about Palestinian resistance, liberation and art Written across Palestine...

WINNER OF THE 2025 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD FROM THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETSA stunning new collection exploring lineage and the legacy of survival as seen...

Bernardo Wade's A Love Tap--introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay--reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic...

The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.The follow-up to her...

William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems--first published in 1969--are among literature's most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa's...

A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic.Let’s go back far as we dareto go back to that land bridgemade of untrusting...

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. "How big is a...

An affirming picture book that celebrates the brilliance and power of brown and Black boys to achieve their dreams, from poet and activist Leslé Honoré...

Dancing at the intersection of melody and humanity, Mitchell L. H. Douglas' Universal Corner imagines what beat moves the world. Douglas' poetry rides the skip and pop...

An exploration of sisterhood, creativity, and community inspired by the artist Alma Thomas's life and work, from the award-winning poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alma Thomas...

Reclaiming the narrative of the Egyptian avant-garde: Western derivatives or independent pioneers? Following the success of her highly acclaimed first book, Modern Art in Egypt, Fatenn...

In her raw and resonant debut novel, René Peña-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice,...

The Japanese word ' koan' is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal...

For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile,...

What the Road Said is the New York Times-bestselling comforting and uplifting picture book from bestselling poet and activist Cleo Wade.Which way do I go?That is your...

"Full of specific stories of trans life, growing up black, and youthful understandings of the limitations and malleability of gender roles." -Steven Zultanski, 4Columns Published with...

The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine—the...

Nursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and identity. Paying homage to the memory and work of elders and ancestors, Latorial...