Poetry

The personal words, thoughts, and feelings in this book bring out the author's vulnerability and offer a safe space for you to feel your deepest emotions. A book that honestly touches on important topics like love, womanhood, heartbreak, friendship, and...

Many people say music is their escape. Well, poetry is my escape. It was my way to escape from the cage I was in at seventeen. Most seventeen-year-olds are chasingfemales or preparing for the big game. I was preparing for prison. I am not suggesting this...

"Instinct, Identity, and the Space Between" is a lyrical journey through life's messiest, most poignant moments. This collection of poems and narratives explores the delicate balance between who we are, what we feel, and the choices we make. With sharp...

"Instinct, Identity, and the Space Between" is a lyrical journey through life's messiest, most poignant moments. This collection of poems and narratives explores the delicate balance between who we are, what we feel, and the choices we make. With sharp...

Self-made poet and social media sensation Pierre Jeanty has triumphed once again with his most recent collection, Apologies That Never Came. From words that never left your mouth to feelings you held on to, these words explore an unspoken space in...

Inspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reveal, and unravel us. An honest meditation on migrating to South Florida for love, connection, and community, these...

Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these...

Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible Nina Simone. With this book, Buchanan is declaring this The Century of the Black Woman,...

A love letter to his fans, My Dear Wildflower finds New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin at his best, guiding readers through the journey out of despair and back to self-worth with the honest relatability that fans worldwide have come to know him for. My...

Crystal Simone Smith's new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway...

Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir's poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.I Hope This Helps reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an...