Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life.   ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...

Winner of the National Book Award 2000. The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.   Lucille Clifton won the 2007...

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. First reissue of this powerful blend of funk, soul, & poetry. "What does it mean to be a Black...

Limited opaque colored vinyl LP pressing. First reissue of this powerful blend of funk, soul, & poetry. "Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside...

In this innovative work of self-portraiture and poetry, Reprise looks at 2020 with an overarching question: what does it mean to grapple with an America that has...

The Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing. what will come of what...

  From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work!  “Nikki Giovanni is one of our national...

A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L....

This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to...

Jericho Brown ushers the body from political and religious battlegrounds, employing the rhythms of sexuality and spirituality to protest oppression. Jericho Brown worked as the...

The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...

"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and...

52 Walker presents THE WANDA COLEMAN SONGBOOK EP, produced by Cauleen Smith on the occasion of her exhibition at 52 Walker, New York, on view...

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu...

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets | 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry   In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are...

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique...

A breathtaking new poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why...

"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava...

  In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way...

  Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to...

Winner of the American Book Award, a classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition"A lion in literature's forest. When...

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in...

  Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens...

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin...