Poetry

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...

'umi's prayer' is about love in all its forms. it is a love letter to the land and to its people. it is a love letter to self, to those who are pondering 'queerosities', to those who wake to the building of their dreams. it is both the journey and...

The relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the arresting backdrop to Nandi Comer's collection Tapping Out. Mexican freestyle wrestling becomes the poet's lyrical motif, uncovering what is behind the...