Poetry

The Seasoned Woman, by Andrea Vocab Sanderson, is a testament to time and the turn of the seasons in an unforgiving world where the sacredness of the human body is often forgotten and reduced to a desperate battle with creams and crows' feet, beauty a...

How would you live your life if you understood that every scar, trauma, or suffering can make you stronger and greater?Rosemary Esehagu, who has studied psychology and medicine, has seen the damaging effects of having people's abuse or trauma speak for...

In defiance of life's intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what haunts our country and ourselves. Coleman's second...

In their second collaboration, Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett pay tribute to the sneaker culture through this collection of new poems, including a micro saga-in-verse and a mixtape of prose poems. Paying homage to A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Clark Kent, and...

In Nikia Chaney's there was this bird, narrative erupts with a force both musical and visual. With experimental arrangements of text and deep sonic resonance, Chaney affirms herself a virtuoso of transforming stories of identity, marginalization, and...

subhuman is a compelling and unflinching exploration of life behind bars, written during the author's incarceration. Through the lens of a Black, queer man, this work sheds light on the often unspoken physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges faced...

Bryan Byrdlong's debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the...

Isaac Pickell writes from the middle of things: the tensions between Blackness and Jewishness, between loss and inheritance, between being seen and being claimed. But these poems don't search for wholeness so much as they honor the seams--the...

For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers--including his own ancestors--who enlisted in the...

Tall, Dark & Healing is a conversation in book form. The topics discussed and the way they are approached feel like a friend that isn't afraid to hold you accountable while reminding you of your worth and growth.​ It is an evocative exploration of...