Poetry

Beginning with Riot Act, a monologue about the Los Angeles uprising in April 1992, Ai explored racial and sexual politics through the voices of diverse characters.

The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that--if played or sung at the right moment with just the right...

New York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes explains, "A study of scripture reveals that Jesus spent a lot of time with people in the margins. As an African American, I live in the margins, and I can tell you that it's a place most of us...

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an...

Composed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey beyond the limits of human experience, Gilgamesh is a...

Born in the crucible of pandemic and American cultural strife, Gentrifying the Plague House examines the places in which one world runs across the bow of another. Its poetry uses ghosts, myths, ritual and the everyday to better understand our moments of...

Khaled Mattawa's poetry contains "the complexity of a transnational identity" (MacArthur Fellowship citation) Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute and probing...

This book was solely inspired by a few inmates I was trapped in a concrete hell with back in 2003. Although all of these ideas originated from me, these inmates help me realize that I didn't have to take that path that I was headed on as my life's...

How can we navigate our modern world while staying true to ourselves? "The speed of nature teaches us so much," offers Dijon Bowden's debut poetry collection, From Infinity to Infinity. Through lotus flowers, peach trees, honeybees, "radiant raspberry...

Freedom Knows My Name takes readers on a poetic journey of seeking collective and personal freedom as a Black woman. By scanning the QR code on the back of the book, readers are transported to the author reading selected poems such: "For the Women Who...

Freedom at Day Zero is a story of balance, peace, love, and vulnerability. The journey is both difficult and necessary to share. I listened to my soul and made a choice to travel back from age 28 to age 3, to tell that girl-child that everything is now...