Poetry

In his first collection in a dozen years, Chicago-based poet, artist, and musician Marvin Tate explores memory, identity, and the unseen emotional labor of survival in Black urban life. Informed by Tate's experiences growing up on Chicago's West Side,...

In the pages of Wild Surrender, bestselling poet r.h. Sin takes readers on an all-new journey that is sure to warm you up and flush your cheeks. Providing a glimpse into desire stripped bare, a quiet exploration of vulnerability and seduction, this...

In the pages of Soft Hunger, bestselling poet r.h. Sin takes readers on an all-new journey that is sure to warm you up and flush your cheeks. Providing a glimpse into desire stripped bare, a quiet exploration of vulnerability and seduction, this...

How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine."...

A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the "melismatic celebration of disaster" that is the blues, these are poems that map the places where orderly cosmic harmony and dissonance...

Analyzing the writer as an activist and feminist who helped shape the Black women's movement. Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature and intellectual thought. A poet, educator,...

From award-winning author Kiki Petrosino comes a poignant exploration of identity, heritage and belonging for readers of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral and Seamus Heaney's NorthThrough vivid imagery and...

Born of the poet's longstanding love of visual art, especially painting, Behold examines why we love what we love, and how we see (and are seen) by art. When we say we "saw" something, McCallum asks, what is it that we saw--outside of us, and within?Over...

The poems in Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory interrogate identity, family, loneliness and the expectations of masculinity, using dreams, blues and a chorus of voices.