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,...

In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity. "A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth,...

Cornelius Eady turns the inaugural poem into an instrument of reckoning.   First delivered to mark the historic inauguration of New York City's mayor Zohran Mamdani on January 1, 2026, the title poem is not ceremony--it is summons. "You have to...

The Caf? at Light is a beautiful and original book. Mark McMorris has a genuinely cosmopolitan imagination--one that moves musically, and with rapidity and insight, from intimacy to our citizenship in the world and back--and he continually invents poetic...

Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary if you turned down the mediaso I could write a bookthen you could look me upin your voluminous recyclopedia-from Muse &...

BLACK PECULIAR sketches out power dynamics and faulty assumptions in terms of race and history, media and culture, and sex and gender in highly original lines of verse. An extraordinary mixture of wit and profundity, the three long works in the...

Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU -- a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that...

"Sailing for Ithaca is a travelogue of an inner country that's full of ports and welcoming entry points. Passports mean nothing here. There are no border agents. There are no uniformed guards. 'Enter where you can. / Leave in delight." '"

In 2011 the Government of Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency to counter the violent crime associated with the drugs trade. Ground Level confronts the roots of the madness and chaos seething under the surface of this "crude season of curfew...

This is a small "sexy" little black book of poems and images by Danny Simmons that will get your blood pumping.