Collection: Poetry

The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted...

WHO & WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with poet and multi-hyphenate, Yazmin Monét Watkins, as we discuss her debut poetry collection, A Vessel...

From South Central 2 The World is a love letter to the city of Los Angeles and by artist, poet and educator Def Sound. FSC2TW...

This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton. Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive...

A stirring love letter to the artist's great-grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East...

  These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes...

If our lives were to flood, what are the moments that would rise to the surface? A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people...

"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and...

Written by award-winning performance poet Joseph Coelho, Goodnight, Starry Night is a collection of fourteen poems that takes readers on a gentle journey into dreamland. Each poem...

In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and...

Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author...

"Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection--of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic...

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu...

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....

Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by...

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted...

From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal...

This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams...

In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, class, luxury and materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming-of-age, Good Dress witnesses...

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist,...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The...

Joshua Myers's Holy Ghost Key celebrates the essential role of African music in the continuity and sustenance of African Diasporic life and culture. Myers weaves...