Poetry

Flowers In Winter is a collection of poetry and prose about love, loss, connection and healing. Through vivid imagery and raw emotion, the author evokes reflection and understanding, elucidating the nuances of being human.

Born in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey, Roberts Counts grew up poor in the projects. Incarcerated at twenty, he began to read everything he could find from Shakespeare and Malcolm X to Einstein and Robert Frost. Gradually, he taught himself to write poetry...

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular--its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy "Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country...

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...