Collection: Poetry

BURNED is a collection of stories, poems, essays, and artwork exploring fire-in ways both real and imagined-and its impact on our lives. Fire is humanity's...

The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail is a provocative collaboration between Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri and renowned artist Rosemary Clunie. Pushing the possibilities of...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and...

In the tradition of Claudia Tate's classic book, re-envisioned for the 21st century, Khadijah Queen showcases fifteen leading Black women writers who are influencing the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the...

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More...

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years...

In Black Aliens, Joanna Davis-McElligatt examines extraterrestrial and interdimensional aliens in Black speculative media and culture, reading them as figural representations of a cosmic diasporic experience and...

A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.Homosexual Intifada is a powerful and groundbreaking anthology...

Blending lyric memoir and cultural criticism, acclaimed poet Franny Choi’s debut essay collection explores our obsession with cyborgs and what sci-fi representations of Asian femmes...

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025) Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously...

"In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival."-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award...

WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work *Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel...

One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse,...

The third book in the Ruby René series celebrates love, explores feelings and encourages young children to speak from their hearts.Ruby René has always had so much...

  “When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then...

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998! “Nikki Giovanni...

The latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled Lambda Award-winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha...

A celebration of five decades of multimedia artist Senga Nengudi's creative practice. Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi's art, this book publishes never before...

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.   He...

Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the...

DOUBLE SPIRIT: The Inner Union of the Sacred Feminine & the Divine Masculine Identities is a powerful poetry collection that explores self-love, grief, family, wisdom, identity,...

Commemorate the innumerable ways the African American community has shaped the foundation of the United States in this stunning, poetic picture book from the Caldecott...

An immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.Welcome to the Wickedest, the longest running...