Poetry

Winner of The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss Fenestration excavates public and private history. The poems here bristle with striking clarity and immediacy while compellingly confronting subjects such as the transatlantic slave...

From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form."Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our ascension."--Tongo...

Selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters."Violence is a failure of communication" opens this book as an omen and foregrounds a...

The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine--the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black...

The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity's Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healing from trauma. Across the volumes of The Healing...

Randall James Tyrone's debut collection City of Dis is a searing exploration of contemporary existence intertwined with medieval notions of damnation, invoking Dante's "Inferno" to craft a modern-day epic. Doubling as a novel-in-verse, City of Dis...

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineageWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationRoom Swept Home serves as a gloriously...

An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time--ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way...

A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and...