Poetry

Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical...

Lost Body, Kept Soul encompasses insecurity, brokenness, joy, wholeness and more. It is an inside look into the author's transition in to becoming the woman she was always destined to be. Through poetry Jasmine loses herself to rediscover who she truly...

Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon. . . . and we'd do this againAnd again and again, without everKnowing we were the weapon ourselves, Stronger than steel, story, and...

A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy,...

Lighting the Shadow is about a woman's evolving journey through desire, grief, trauma, and the peculiar historical American psyche of desire and violence. These poems explore the international and psychological wars women survive--wars inflicted through...

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in...

Live Through My Eyes is an inspirational poetry collection from the perspective of an African American woman striving for healing, growth and ultimately, transformation after personal tragedy. Expressed through themes of relationships and identity,...

Matthew 18:2-4 (KJV) 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever...

Her poems speak volumes to the everyday experiences and lessons in life in her own genuine way. Ayana uses her urban messages to reach her audience in a way with the truth, the ugly, and that thing that makes you strive to be an amazing human.As you read...

Call it a life manual for the girl-child and you wouldn't be wrong. But Letter to Lilly goes beyond that. It is a collection of poems that preaches defiance against accepted order. In this collection, the poet wastes no time in declaring her intentions...

This collection of poems covers the expanse of human experience: love, life, death... They draw you into Oloyede's world, a world where feelings and emotions take shape and breathe life through the sorcery of words.Mastery of language is one of the...

This book is a small compilation, showing various sides of Mee. It is my first published book, showing different times in my life and different obstacles that I overcame. I am expressing myself through the art form of poetry. My mother always says that...