Poetry

Thirty years of poems and a few essays of Don L. Lee beginning in the militant Black Arts Movement and metamorphosing into the more mature yet critical voice of Lee as Haki R. Madhubuti. The subject is consistently political and poetic as it challenges...

From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this,...

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 second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black...

The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity's Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healing from trauma. Across the volumes of The Healing...

From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal Following on his exquisite Stones, Kevin Young's new collection,...

Randall James Tyrone's debut collection City of Dis is a searing exploration of contemporary existence intertwined with medieval notions of damnation, invoking Dante's "Inferno" to craft a modern-day epic. Doubling as a novel-in-verse, City of Dis...

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineageWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationRoom Swept Home serves as a gloriously...

An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time--ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way...

A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and...