Collection: Poetry

WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work *Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel...

A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta...

One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse,...

The third book in the Ruby René series celebrates love, explores feelings and encourages young children to speak from their hearts.Ruby René has always had so much...

  “When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then...

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998! “Nikki Giovanni...

The latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled Lambda Award-winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha...

A celebration of five decades of multimedia artist Senga Nengudi's creative practice. Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi's art, this book publishes never before...

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.   He...

Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the...

DOUBLE SPIRIT: The Inner Union of the Sacred Feminine & the Divine Masculine Identities is a powerful poetry collection that explores self-love, grief, family, wisdom, identity,...

Commemorate the innumerable ways the African American community has shaped the foundation of the United States in this stunning, poetic picture book from the Caldecott...

An immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.Welcome to the Wickedest, the longest running...

Winner of the 2020 Caldecott MedalA 2020 Newbery Honor BookWinner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardThe Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens...

A celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience.In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the...

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE...

Black lesbian feminist, essayist, journalist, poet, author, and cultural worker, Anita Cornwell wrote extensively about her experiences as a Black lesbian in the United States...

From an award-winning, innovative poet, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age In her second full-length collection, Maya Salameh offers...

  A tender, searching collection that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home...

For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the award-winning poet...

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants--containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)--a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet...

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling...

The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past,...