Poetry

In his second poetry collection, author and poet Troy R Legette shares a blend of various poetic forms providing inspiration, motivation, and healing to readers of all ages. The Objective Scholar: Poetic Wordplay is a literary work that stems from a...

A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday Artist-Rebel-Pioneer Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the...

"Does anyone find it ironic that a website will ask you to prove you are not a robot? Does anyone know what it's like to not feel human?" In one animated six-part poem, Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker explores the ways in which we are all...

recto y verso EDITIONS is proud to announce the release of Identity Crisis by Poet and Writer Ian Macks. Ian's distinct poetic voice and literary light shines bright within the poems of his long-awaited sophomore effort. Kayla Davis writes: "'Identity...

In her fourth collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger further proves herself as a singular poet of astonishing emotional depth and formal range. Hold Your Own is a steadfast search for peace, self acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights...

With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. Diannely Antigua's Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection "voyage[s]...

A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon...

The generational debate in Nigerian poetry has been shaped by the interventions of such anthologies as Voices from the Fringes (1988), edited by Harry Garuba, Poets in their Youth (1988), edited Uche Nduka and Ositadinma Ike, Gems Out of Africa: A Wake...

The selected works of the late poet Reginald Shepherd, edited by Jericho Brown