Poetry

New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenAmerica, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and mother in today's America, and her first book of...

Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book's speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artists as they attempt to wade through agoraphobia,...

Shane McCrae, "peer to the peerless" (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of HellIs death the muse of Heaven I don't knowO muse of where...

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment. The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot's SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies make love possible, they enable tender connection and...

Dancing at the intersection of melody and humanity, Mitchell L. H. Douglas' Universal Corner imagines what beat moves the world. Douglas' poetry rides the skip and pop of vinyl, radio waves, and mixtape collage through a complex modern life, his voice...

From DMV Renaissance Award winning author Dwayne Lawson-Brown, comes BISCUIT BOX; a collection of haiku, senryu, and various short works meant to feed your poetry craving. The work captured in BISCUIT BOX explores topics mundane and monumental; from the...

WINNER OF THE 2025 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD FROM THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS A stunning new collection exploring lineage and the legacy of survival as seen through the life of the poet's grandmother Alice--a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South--using...

"Tramaine Suubi is a visionary love poet, and stages makes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, embodied tenderness is a force capable of moving us...

To All the Women I've Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its flame, from bestselling poet Billy Chapata. Through poetry and prose, Billy Chapata--bestselling author of Velvet Dragonflies and Flowers...

Curls and Souls explores relationships through their various stages-the beginning, the middle, and the end. It draws a parallel between a young woman's journey of growing, styling, and ultimately embracing her natural hair and the different phases of...

Winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize American Happiness is an eclectic collection of verse from a bold poet of everyday life, Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Ironically titled, the work addresses everything from the death of parents to racial tension to the...

"Harare Voices and Beyond takes us on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche." ─Sue Quainton, Bicester, United Kingdom A drunken confession exposes a dark family secret. Rhys appears to have it all. A white Zimbabwean living in...