Poetry

From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget...

Poetic Memoirs, written over the course of 21 years, Faith of a Child chronicles one Christian's Spiritual Journey, from childhood to mid-life. What can be expected from a child who is the product of a home filled with violence and domestic abuse? Faith...

Face Me: a declaration reveals the complexities of a mixed race identity through religion, sex, American history, and colorism. The poems in Face Me reject any white supremacy that dictates Biblical interpretations, historical truths, and beauty...

Everything Worth Fighting For: An exploration of being Black in America takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the many layers of Black life. From coming to understand the value in elder wisdom to struggling with the dangers facing Black youth,...

Everything But a Smile is a collection of poems that speak to acknowledgement, acceptance, and fight through the hollows and peaks of the human experience. The author, Candace D. Henry has a knack for gripping the emotions of her readers to get them to...

New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize-winning poet These songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of...

Hope is Not Far Away...Everybody Don Kolomental is a collection of poems that deal with everyday universal struggles.Tolu' peddles hope to the lost and hopeless and pulls at the emotional strings of the heart in this collection of heartfelt poems. The...

"Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and...

"Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia's intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individual as he endeavors to chart his own course in the world."--Atwood Magazine Both a journey of individual...

In Even the Saints Audition Raych Jackson Reconditions her body and reclaims her church. This empowering book of poems interrogates the relationship between blackness, shame, and what it is to live a life tied to the church. Rich with historical...

A stirring and powerful telling of self-acceptance. Grieve stolen innocence and embrace tender mercies for motherly imperfections until you're wrapped in inspirational comfort and healing. In Elizabeth Onyeabor's follow-up to her bestselling From the...

Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky's rising Affrilachian literary stars.Bernard Clay's autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the...