Poetry

R.E. Lockett's Thin Windows is a collection of narrative poems that explores the delicate intersections of reality and fantasy. Each poem weaves a unique tale where sound and light leak into our world from other dimensions, creating vivid, immersive...

Washing Water is a poetry collection that lilts life through the eyes of Caribbean girls and women across the African diaspora. The poems weave vignettes of ancestor-women, known and unknown, who have lived the fat belly of life and understand its joys...

A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri explores the...

Poetry Winner, 2025 International Firebird Book AwardsFormer poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones...

Title: Beyond the SurfaceAuthor: Ebosetae Ann OkoyoDescription: "Beyond the Surface" by Ebosetae Ann Okoyo is a heartfelt collection of poems that takes readers on a journey through the ups and downs of life. This book explores important themes like...

THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it...

The Pond That Ripples represents a person who experiences disruptions and changes in life. Ripples on a pond, on an otherwise smooth surface, may be perceived as calming or disturbing, depending on the perspective of the gazer. It is this...

Collected Poems combines examples of James Edwin Campbell's poetry from both of his published books. His traditional American verse poems, which exemplifies those he included in Driftings and Gleanings stand in stark contrast to his poetry in the...

The Republic of South Africa is a land that I now know. From the mountains, desert, ocean, and grassy plains are images that I dreamed of instead of studying. A home of many cultures and ideas that match its beauty. In these pages, you will find some...

This poet takes us on the journey to rediscovered awareness and the morality of the physical self in her collection, Flowers of Diagnosis. The poems, arranged in reverse chronological order, as if mimicking the dramatic irony of Greek tragedy, begins at...

Poetry collection by Beth Brown Preston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Adanna, African American Review, Atticus Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Calyx, Cave Wall, Euphony Journal, Evening Street Review, Free...

Poetry collection by Regina YC Garcia. Garcia's literary work primarily centers around issues related to family and culture, social justice, and human rights. She is committed to effecting change through the persistent literary address of inequities,...