Poetry

Niyi Osundare's latest book of poems, Green: Sighs Of Our Ailing Planet, is a critical pastoral of poems concerning the environment around the world--A poet of renown who has travelled and given performances in many parts of the world, he has felt and...

The liberation struggles and the civil rights activisms of the 19th and 20th centuries inspired Moses Kainwo's Great Freedom Fighters, reimagining and imaging twelve of such liberators in this collection of poems. From the politically, rationalist...

"Jones's great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them."--Anna Wiener, THE NEW YORKER From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing--two epic poems, the love songs of...

A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, "a shrewd composer of American stories (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker) Writing you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write back Shane...

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose...

Here are poems that celebrate and interpret the game by one of America's finest poets. They are for everyone who has experienced the magic released when three holy things come together: bat, ball and glove. "Ethelbert Miller is one of the most...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book AwardFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry PrizeLong-listed for the National Book AwardLong-listed for the PEN Open Book AwardOne of The Washington...

My interest in poetry began in elementary school. Like many children, it started with love poems. First reciting the dorky "Roses are red" poems, then developed my own distinct lines. I was a quiet and shy kid but when I put pen to paper, I was bold and...

From the author of The Chaos of Longing comes a powerful second collection in which Robinson uses the metaphor of water to tell a story about achieving wholeness through letting go. Organized in three sections, Submerge explores immersion in and release...

Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major JacksonThe stub of your left leg danglesas I hold you up, my hands inserted under your armslike a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel...

Cherene Sherrard's poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens,...

A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity. Alexis Sears's debut collection, Out of Order, is a collage of unapologetic intimacy, risk-taking vulnerability, and unwavering...

A poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean's falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel...