Poetry

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourseWashington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community, despite often being overshadowed by...

Things can be much more than things. Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car--and what happens when those objects change hands? In the buying and the selling of things, objects once loved but...

A finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Adrian Matejka has been a mainstay of contemporary American poetry for over two decades. Collecting hits from six extraordinary collections, Be Easy showcases Matejka's singular sonics and...

A revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine's Common Sense--calling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans In his famous cry for inhabitants of the thirteen colonies to seek independence...

A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword. I am no mystic. I know nothing rises that doesn't know how to already. In my ears, only the clubbed foot of routine, no voices, no clatter of...

From an award-winning poet praised for his "rhapsodic, rigorous" work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made to the measure of...

Melissa Range's Printer's Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement--its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures--with a particular emphasis on print culture. Drawing...

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return--with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes...

In Long Eye, Kwoya Fagin Maples brings us a sea-bound collection that channels the mythic, defiant voice of a Black Mermaid. Inspired by Mami Wata, a water spirit of West African folklore, Maples explores the power and divinity of being a Black woman, a...

A Best Book of the Year 2023: TIME NPR's Best Books New York Public Library Electric Lit The Root NBC Today Mother JonesThe New York Times bestselling poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from...

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist violence. In Reconstructing Eden, Indigo Moor performs an exorcism of a childhood shaped by the dizzying racism that once drove him to the...

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. "How big is a home?" "What is space without reaching?" "You ever think about being remembered?"Posing questions...