Collection: Poetry

Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberation from the phantasm of Black womanhood. Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance,...

  A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today   From the earliest computers to the...

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our...

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past,...

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.   Rising...

Throughout their award-winning careers, visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet, memoirist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of...

  In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet...

In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of...

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging--for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar   "We, children...

A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam...

  THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez's debut book, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems, essays, fictions, and oral...

Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the...

Witch Wife is back in a brand new paperback edition, featuring a reader’s guide and writing prompts from the poet herself. The poems of Witch Wife are spells,...

The stunning new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson You're told thatThis won't work,But how will you...

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold...

Another Black Girl Miracle is a testimony. It is the documentation of healing. It is a tale of womanhood; its awkwardness and its rewards. Filled with...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón....

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead   Since the publication of his first collection, Muscular Music, in...

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender,...

From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great...

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...