Poetry

'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...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious weIn her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more...

"Coe is a poet's poet, a jazzy, postmodern Ben Johnson . . . understated, but shimmering with wit, compassion, integrity of purpose." -- The PhoenixHis most powerful collection of poetry to date, Charles Coe is renowned for his powerful readings and...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious weIn her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more...

Zakwato the ungovernable, that's me; and who dares to face me faces a monster.Exhilarating, alert, and animated by both Bété oral poetics and modernist zeal, ZAKWATO & LOGLÊDOU'S PERIL presents two major linked poems by the late Ivorian poet Azo Vauguy,...

This powerful collection of poems draws on American and African- American experimental lyric traditions, pushing language and form to their limits. Geoffrey Jacques's poetry inspires deep thought, taking up themes of music, psychology, and literature...

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image--a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the...

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image--a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the...

A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement. In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...