Collection: Poetry

Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by...

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted...

From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal...

This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams...

In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, class, luxury and materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming-of-age, Good Dress witnesses...

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist,...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The...

Joshua Myers's Holy Ghost Key celebrates the essential role of African music in the continuity and sustenance of African Diasporic life and culture. Myers weaves...

Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author's favorite flora.The passion for gardening and the passion for words...

Addiction. Recovery. Repeat. Akbar blazes the poetry scene with this introspective, powerful, and passionate debut. This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...

A vibrant, heartwarming collection of 15 middle grade stories and poems that celebrates the joy, strength, and experience of Black girlhood, including stories from Ibi...

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic...

This book contains 40 haiku-inspired poems and 40 sets of corresponding affirmations originally written in response to the question, "Transcestors, what would you have wanted...

don't forget to breathe. is a collection of poems tethered to reflection-encouraging prompts, designed to be consumed slowly by the reader. A benevolent measure of...

Poignant and beautifully examined, poet Yazmin Monet Watkins takes readers on an introspective journey through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, family, self-love, and all...

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

Rethink the way you approach writing in this "honest, useful craft book that all fledgling writers need" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from fourteen diverse authors...

From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians. Fady Joudah's powerful sixth...

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who...

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice,...

  From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the...

  In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts is a searing and defiant young adult novel in verse about reclaiming agency...

In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the United States...