Poetry

This book is a brief glimpse into my life and the transformation God has made thus far. Experience the journey from the origination of Sunshine BlackRose to realization of life. Watch that realization lead to maturation bringing about the transformation...

Sunset Flips to Morning Glory is an assortment of poems hand crafted by Toni Jo, a Christian artist from Jackson, MS. Through this collection you will follow the journey of Love falsified to Love redeemed through a true and meaningful relationship with...

Cortney Holloway invites readers into a world where Summer reigns supreme. His poetry creates an inviting space for readers to freely immerse themselves in the downpour of life challenge, in a world where rain offers redemption. Flowing from his...

SuiPsalms is the follow up to Lawson's first, acclaimed poetry collection, THE TROUBLESOME AMPUTEE. Exploring the subject of suicide from all angles, this collection challenges pre-conceived notions and both poetry and suicide. Drawing on influences from...

"Urgency and imagination, truth and focus: Jabari Asim brings those qualities together in a book of poetry that confronts the lethal face of racism: death-by-police. This book challenges the boundaries of the art by being, in a very good sense of the...

A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called one of the poetry stars of his generation (Los Angeles Times). We sleep long, / if not sound, Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems,...

Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair is the latest book by author William Evans, founder of Black Nerd Problems. Evans is a long-standing voice in the performance poetry scene, who has performed at venues across the country and been featured on numerous...

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom. A PEN America Literary Award Winner Jonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region,...

We are making our lives up "here on this bridge / between starshine and clay" (Lucille Clifton). Addressing tough circumstances tenderly, this book is about life--what we inherit, what we create, what shapes us, what's possible.

Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James--all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts (reproduced in beautiful facsimiles here)--are the presiding...

The first three chapbooks by poetry champion Kelsey Marie Harris. 'Fondled and Mangoed, ' 'The Jolly Queef, ' and 'Sex Wound' woven together as one brilliant collection. "They will try to tell you there are no voices. Listen to the voices."

Poems that imagine a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death. Shayla Lawz's debut collection, speculation, n., brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body...