Poetry

UNCERTAINTIES is a meditation on the care and quick of being alive at its defiant and elegiac full by one of the masters of the American poetic continuum. This cycle of 125 poems is composed principally in two-line stanzas, or couplets: A form seemingly...

Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez...

Lived and Died.Born before his time, Tattooed with "Thug Life" no shame just pride.This soldier of misfortune with broken wings that flew high.He needed justice in all communities to be seen and heard not with ignorance but intelligent words. Until one...

Lived and Died.Born before his time, Tattooed with "Thug Life" no shame just pride.This soldier of misfortune with broken wings that flew high.He needed justice in all communities to be seen and heard not with ignorance but intelligent words. Until one...

Black. Muslim. Woman. An interconnected journey.This is a book of poems that combines the experience of being Black in the United States of America with the poet's personal journey as a Black Muslim Woman.

"To The Women I Once Loved" is a reflection of a poet's heart, his deepest inner feelings towards past relationships and how they contributed to the man he has become. Each piece brings consciousness to parts of a woman that ought to be glorified,...

Experience true empowerment as you journey, To HELL AND BACK , a deeply personal, riveting poetry collection that will resonate with readers of all backgrounds. Divided into four themes, this poetry collection will take you on a reflective,...

Titans of Corruption denotes that "No Oppressor will ever allow those who he once fully oppressed, to ever become equal to himself; and, his laws of equality will always be full of deception against the poor no matter their color." This is especially so...

Titans of Corruption denotes that "No Oppressor will ever allow those who he once fully oppressed, to ever become equal to himself; and, his laws of equality will always be full of deception against the poor no matter their color." This is especially so...

Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends--one Black, the other white--who grew up wards of the state in New York. It's April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend,...

In his debut collection, Aaron Coleman writes an American anthem for the 21st century, a full-throated lyric composed of pain, faith, lust and vulnerability. Coleman's poems comment on and interrogate the meaning of home and identity for a black man in...

19th Poet Laureate of the United States "A powerful, beautifully crafted book."--The Washington Post "Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant."--Elle Charting the intersections of public and...