Poetry

A poignant journey through womanhood, motherhood, mental health, and identity, with a unique lens on the biracial experience, offering solace and understanding amidst life's complexities. I'll Cry If I Want To is a poignant collection that delves into...

The first installment in the Healing Verses series from prolific writer and poet r.h. Sin comes New Moons, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healing from trauma. Through its beautiful narrative...

Recounting a life--and language--by an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric. In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and language scholar Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his...

A Haitian-born, Boston-based poet explores the personal and political stories of the Haitians who were part of Congo's 1960s decolonization movement Between 1960 and 1975, thousands of Haitian professionals emigrated to Congo, a fellow Black francophone...

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...

This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender and working-class studies. African American children's poetry reveals legacies of segregation, the Great Migration north,...

"These are poems of deep thought, passionate engagement, and often searing images." --Toronto Star (on Each One a Furnace) A poetic exploration of the cyclical philosophy of dismantling and remaking, Unravel is a moving and inventive rove through what...

James Baldwin, author and civil rights activist, stated that to be Black in America and relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time. In this audacious debut poetry collection, The Horizon Never Forgets, Steven Moore offers us...

Scattered Pictures is a hot and spicy, romp-around-romance album that freely spills the tea on dating. Curated extensively during the COVID-19 world pandemic, this album presents a crisp and queer perspective on human interactions that are...

Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age--trying to...

For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold--promising easy riches but frequently resulting in dispossession and displacement. Poet...

A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker "Willis' poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is...