Poetry

Isaac Pickell writes from the middle of things: the tensions between Blackness and Jewishness, between loss and inheritance, between being seen and being claimed. But these poems don't search for wholeness so much as they honor the seams--the...

For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers--including his own ancestors--who enlisted in the...

Tall, Dark & Healing is a conversation in book form. The topics discussed and the way they are approached feel like a friend that isn't afraid to hold you accountable while reminding you of your worth and growth.​ It is an evocative exploration of...

Poetry collection by Keisha-Gaye Anderson. Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, author, and visual artist based in Brooklyn.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento's multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumation, and burial song. These words are a conversation...

Midnight at Noon is the captivating fourth installment of poetic works by author Journey Johnson. This collection masterfully weaves themes of social issues, mysticism, culture, and love, presenting them in a mesmerizing blend of free verse, prose, and...

"Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state." So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as "uncompromising as an old testament prophet, stern as...

Reflections of a Feral Mother is a journey into the unflinching nature of motherhood. The collection embraces the untamed love of a mother for her child and the defiant beauty of survival.With raw, evocative storytelling and lyrical intensity,...

A soul laid bare. A voice reclaimed. A journey through fire, pain, and healing-told one verse at a time. In Poetically Purged, Diana Williams-Kirklin delivers a courageous and soul-stirring collection of poetry that cuts to the bone and heals from the...

How does the kidnapping of a grandfather or the sound of a mother's cry shape a collection into a fierce recall of peace?In Uncensored Snapshots, the speaker(s) harnesses the power of witness to document the decades-long ethnic cleansing that has left...

First published in Cabo Verde in 1998, Jorge Carlos Fonseca's Pigs in Delirium (Porcos em Del?rio) charted and continues to chart a new vision not just for Cabo-Verdean poetry, but for all of Lusophone poetry. Pigs in Delirium begins with a 10-page...