Poetry

Poetry collection by Keisha-Gaye Anderson. Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, author, and visual artist based in Brooklyn.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento's multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumation, and burial song. These words are a conversation...

Midnight at Noon is the captivating fourth installment of poetic works by author Journey Johnson. This collection masterfully weaves themes of social issues, mysticism, culture, and love, presenting them in a mesmerizing blend of free verse, prose, and...

"Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state." So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as "uncompromising as an old testament prophet, stern as...

Reflections of a Feral Mother is a journey into the unflinching nature of motherhood. The collection embraces the untamed love of a mother for her child and the defiant beauty of survival.With raw, evocative storytelling and lyrical intensity,...

A soul laid bare. A voice reclaimed. A journey through fire, pain, and healing-told one verse at a time. In Poetically Purged, Diana Williams-Kirklin delivers a courageous and soul-stirring collection of poetry that cuts to the bone and heals from the...

How does the kidnapping of a grandfather or the sound of a mother's cry shape a collection into a fierce recall of peace?In Uncensored Snapshots, the speaker(s) harnesses the power of witness to document the decades-long ethnic cleansing that has left...

First published in Cabo Verde in 1998, Jorge Carlos Fonseca's Pigs in Delirium (Porcos em Del?rio) charted and continues to chart a new vision not just for Cabo-Verdean poetry, but for all of Lusophone poetry. Pigs in Delirium begins with a 10-page...

In this inaugural work from Kenan Wilson-Phillip, the poet balances neatly between the white-hot and the surreal, exploring what it means to be alive and human in the here and now. Expressed as a series of snapshots from the author's internal universe,...

More than 20 years since its first publication in 2003, Necessary Journey has been lovingly revised to re-enter the poetic world while remaining true to the era of her time.The first volume of poetry to be released by Poet Author Journey Johnson,...

This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye's cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger...

Over Yonder continues Glenis Redmond's poetic journey through South Carolina's 47 state parks, deepening her exploration of nature, memory, and resilience.In this companion to The Song of Everything, Redmond's words move like water over stone-shaping,...