Poetry

How would you live your life if you understood that every scar, trauma, or suffering can make you stronger and greater?Rosemary Esehagu, who has studied psychology and medicine, has seen the damaging effects of having people's abuse or trauma speak for...

In Zenobia Lundy's second poetry collection, Prose and Light is meant to inspire, motivate and showcase African American life and experience to give hope and encouragement for this and the next generations. In Zenobia Lundy's second poetry collection,...

Holland Raulston Jr. was born on September 20, 1954, to his parents, Lucille Raulston and Holland Wingard. He attended Dunleith Elementary, Colwyck Junior High, and De La Warr High School.Holland also pursued studies in psychology (Ohio State University)...

The Seasoned Woman, by Andrea Vocab Sanderson, is a testament to time and the turn of the seasons in an unforgiving world where the sacredness of the human body is often forgotten and reduced to a desperate battle with creams and crows' feet, beauty a...

How would you live your life if you understood that every scar, trauma, or suffering can make you stronger and greater?Rosemary Esehagu, who has studied psychology and medicine, has seen the damaging effects of having people's abuse or trauma speak for...

In defiance of life's intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what haunts our country and ourselves. Coleman's second...

In their second collaboration, Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett pay tribute to the sneaker culture through this collection of new poems, including a micro saga-in-verse and a mixtape of prose poems. Paying homage to A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Clark Kent, and...

In Nikia Chaney's there was this bird, narrative erupts with a force both musical and visual. With experimental arrangements of text and deep sonic resonance, Chaney affirms herself a virtuoso of transforming stories of identity, marginalization, and...

subhuman is a compelling and unflinching exploration of life behind bars, written during the author's incarceration. Through the lens of a Black, queer man, this work sheds light on the often unspoken physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges faced...

Bryan Byrdlong's debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the...