Poetry

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists,...

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998!"Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures."--Gloria NaylorIn celebration of the 250th...

"When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement." -- New York TimesIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,...

Poetry that seeks kinship and hopeful futures amid traumas of colonialism, displacement, and climate disaster. The poems of Las Palmas conjure, walk beside, and tarry with the entangled grief of the long histories and violences in which we are all still...

While much has been written about spiritual poetry, few acknowledge the profound influence of Black poets on Britain's spiritual landscape. Hurricanes Roar illuminates this often-overlooked legacy, weaving together thirty powerful poems that span...

A celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience. In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the joys and hardships of the Black queer experience, poet Nicholas Goodly explores...

In her debut collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, Meghan Malachi explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. These poems celebrate a South Bronx childhood and navigate a complicated...

An electrifying collection of poems from the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Originally published in 1994, Paul Beatty's second volume of poetry won praise for the way it "pushes the boundaries of free verse while assessing...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal. "In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance--an...

Michelle Alexander's A Stone's Throw from C r a y takes up and is moved by radical Black creativity. To be thrown here unfolds an experience of human connection, struggle, and transformation within and outside institutionalized and Afro-Caribbean...

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016...

A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton's experiments with text and image. It's here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a...