Poetry

A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writers' Award.Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of the Scent, an urgent new collection that brims with lyric...

Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the...

Through intimate and raw poetry, Myhesha Doneve invites readers on a journey of personal growth and self-discovery. In this collection, she explores the complexities of love, relationships, and family dynamics, delving into the joys and challenges of...

"God Lifted Me" is written to give my Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ all the glory, honor, praise, and gratitude my soul can muster. The poems reflect personal healing, affirmation, and validation. For five years, I have been bound by...

Felice Belle's Viscera is map and misdirection, evidence and contradiction, free will and fate at the blackjack table. A celebration of the multitudes without and within. In a world that expects women to take care of everyone else except themselves, and...

Daughter is a collection of poems and essays by model and poet Ebonee Davis that form the narrative of what it looked like for a young black woman in America to break generational cycles, begin to heal the trauma that lives in all of our bodies, and...

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winning author. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far--art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and...