Poetry

A collection of poems to transport the reader on a literary journey of discovery through loss, love, family dispersion, and immigration. These poems drip with an alchemical admixture of tenderness, violence, despair, and hope, as testament to our...

To Be Named Something Else, winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage--both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix's debut...

Will You Buy My Wares? is a collection of poems exploring love, loss, pain, heartbreak, identity, mental illness, and hope. Some poems were inspired by stories of people close to the author, and some by patients in the hospital where he worked.

The Many Moods of a Woman is a poetic journey of self-discovery, and the stories told throughout these pages highlight our unique experiences within the elements of love, hurt, pleasure, and pain. Women love hard and will ride for the people we genuinely...

When it comes to writing books, Melica Niccole knows how to take you on an emotional roller-coaster by poetically entering your spirit and releasing emotions that have longed to be set free. She knows the consequences of holding onto things for so long...

Cynthia Manick's poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories...

"Coming From Me" is a collection of poems from the heart, mind, and life of Ronald Eugene Stokes. His works touch every aspect of the human experience, from family, love, and religion to nature and death. Each poem was composed as a labor of love for his...

Death is a part of life, and this book is a tribute of love to the author's family, friends, and loved ones who have lost their battle and fell asleep. Her father's chapter is the largest because, to her, he was the greatest man that ever lived. Besides,...

A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia's Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it. As a former student of economics,...

In his book of poems and short stories, the new poet Orlando Taylor works to address trauma in his and that in the community where he grew up. With powerful, moving wordplay, Orlando Taylor's My Scars Are My Birthmark looks at the various types of love...

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from?The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from?Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero...

Kwajelyn Lewis' new book titled The Gift of Poetry is written from the place of an unending love of poetic expression. A deep connection with Kwajelyn's heart, soul, and mind is what birthed this introspective and masterful collection of poems. Through...

A first poetry collection from Cave Canem fellow Nikia Chaney, this book percolates with experiment, energy, and love as the poet tackles race, poverty, aging, sexism, and more with wild insight and deft skill. Nikia Chaney sets form on fire in the...