Poetry

Poems with No Glass Shield In Twenty Fifteen: 50 Short Poems: Volume 2By: Jemel WilliamsJemel Williams was inspired by his own personal experiences and struggles to write Poems with No Glass Shield in Twenty-Fifteen: 50 Short Poems: Volume 2. His poems...

This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian...

LEONARD A. SLADE, Jr., a native of Conway, North Carolina, has lived in Albany, New York, since 1988. He is Professor of Africana Studies, Adjunct Professor of English, Collins Fellow, and Citizen Academic Laureate at the University at Albany (SUNY). He...

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the third and final volume in the "Planting Gardens in Graves" series. r.h. Sin completes his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves III, another powerful collection of poetry that...

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the first volume in an all new series. r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the themes dearest to his readers. This...

A collection of poems written for any woman seeking love through her reproductive organs. Pink Canvas vividly captures the thoughts of a woman battling with vaginal power, seduction, lust, love, abstinence, and self-worth.

Terron Wilkerson's shares a myriad of incredible experiences, thought provoking imaginatives, and LIFE through a creative expression of poetic rhythms that establishes an in-depth reflective of life and spirit.

Poetry. July Open Reading Selection. What happens when the imagined life and the stories we tell ourselves become terrifying, given our human ability to inhabit both mental and physical worlds? Bertram's third full- length collection pivots on an...

"When did you become a poet?" I recently saw this question on a blog and began to consider my journey to this place. Writing has been my "thing" for as long as I can remember. I discovered writing when I about 6 years old. A group came to our school and...

Nicole Homer's first full-length poetry collection, Pecking Order, is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Homer challenges the notion of family by forcing the reader to examine how race, race performance,...

J. Marion Sims, the legendary, now controversial, 19th century gynecologist looms large in Bettina Judd's recent collection Patient. Sophisticated, complex, haunting, Patient. beckons readers to remember, to feel, to think deeply, to discover, to probe...