Poetry

From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a "startlingly original debut" (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property, and urban planning in Charlottesville, Virginia Shade is a...

McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation. This is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are viewed by an artist, a devil, a soul floating out of a...

Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom. Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford's YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards...

Bernardo Wade's A Love Tap--introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay--reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic evolution of a poet who has found himself in...

This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths. In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up...

Renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer Pat Parker wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime, Jonestown & Other Madness, Movement in Black, Womanslaughter, Pit Stop, and Child of Myself. Parker's poems appeared in...

From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona 'Tank' Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into a renewed sense of self. After getting "vulnerable AF" on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was...

How can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and other ephemera to exhume the generations of her...

The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste...

Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem...