Poetry

In The Postcards I Never Sent, Patterson journeys through stories of love, grief, accountability, and redemption. This collection is Black girl healing. This collection boldly spotlights a broken heart and the trek one must take to mend it. This...

"C.L. Brown is changing the world one brilliant and authentic poetic word at a time." - Kimberly Elise, American Actress"Rupi Kaur and Gabbie Hanna lovers will bow to this trilogy of poetry by C.L. Brown" - Chelsea Girard, Book ReviewerNectar is a...

Join Glenis Redmond, Greenville's first Poet Laureate, on a poetic journey through South Carolina's State Parks with "The Song of Everything". Being diagnosed with cancer and amid COVID, she visits South Carolina's State Parks with her grandson, Julian,...

Author of Metamorphosis: The Awakening (a Poetry book) comes a new inspiring collection of poems as Krystal continues to touch souls through art by inviting readers to release old patterns, trust God, and step into a life of authenticity, forgiveness,...

Spanning two decades, Can't Find My Way Home is Robert Lashley's searing collection of selected poems, a chronicle of Black life shaped by memory, migration, and resistance. These poems move through city blocks, bus stops, churches, and dreamscapes,...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the...

Rainfall throughout history has represented both rebirth and cleansing through the cyclical processes to create the best form of a being. The idea of how rain comes and goes is the root of this work. In life, there are critical teaching points that etch...

Back to Alabama is a poignant poetry collection exploring the complexities of Black American identity, family, cultural heritage, womanhood, and religious faith. As Valerie A. Smith writes, "The Blues down south would cut you." Through evocative verses,...

Set mainly across the backdrop of Cleveland, Ohio, this debut poetry collection is a memoir-in-verse which spans Marlana-Patrice Pugh Hamer's life from her birth to the present. Through authentic, vivid storytelling, she voices the dual challenges of...

Defining Modern Day Black Momma(R), Who Is She? Now, Her Future and Who She Should Never Become - A Self-Love Essay: This essay defines the past and present human condition of Black women in America and other parts of the world.The lens of the essay is...

we was bois together examines identities and belonging through the lenses of Blackness, queerness, and gender non-conforming narratives. The poems act as an homage and an ode to traversing these identities from childhood through adulthood. The collection...

Whispers & Conversations begins with the idea that nothing in this world happens without conversation. Sometimes this happens with a roar - but, most often, these conversations happen in whispers and internal dialogue. Within these pages, Ralonda Simmons...