Collection: Poetry

The riveting story of Puerto Rico, its flag, and its people—told in captivating verse by Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Anika Aldamuy Denise with gorgeous illustrations...

The Black Outside is an ensemble of poems that archives personal and ancestral memory, contextualizing loss and longing in a world created by transatlantic slavery....

More Than an Ocean brings together over two decades of thoughtful, experimental writings in Black feminist diasporic practice by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. These essays, letters,...

An exquisite ode to Harlem penned by the late and acclaimed children's writer Walter Dean Myers, and illustrated by his son, the award-winning Christopher Myers...

Selections from a lifetime of poetry by one of America's premier "word-musicians," this book is long overdue! A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the...

Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where her speaker finds solace and community with her literary...

Grownfolk Blues: a musical in poems is a powerful cross-genre experiment by the inimitable poet, performer and screenwriter Jae Nichelle, blending narrative verse with musical theater...

"Minstrel Makeup Sex is a brilliant, complex, and wide-ranging social and political project that is brought to life by the sharp eye for both language...

THE LIMITED EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African...

This powerful anthology illuminates today's activist experience through the poetry and essays of our most vital and essential youth.   Through compelling poetry, 18 young...

A bold, pioneering, "free-souled" and long-rare classic of concrete poetry, available for the first time in 50 years Originally published by Doubleday and Company in...

Ashia Ajani's Heirloom stands as a poetic homage to the profound legacy of her family's migration journey - a path traversing from Bentonia, Mississippi to...

The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home. This book of poems, stories, and essays draws together examples illustratinga mind...

For the first time in print! A definitive compilation of Nikki Giovanni’s best and most beloved poems from her extraordinary 60-year career. Nikki Giovanni’s poems...

A Millions Most Anticipated 2026 Selection "This is poetry of the highest order, and a stunning reminder of what words can do."--Omar El Akkad "Hold...

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award–winning poet makes his highly anticipated return—with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous...

A collection of mindfulness poems that celebrate everyday moments, from "one of the wisest and most courageous writers of this generation" (Robert Jones Jr.)We live...

There’s a poem for everyone in this touching and funny collection by acclaimed writer, scholar, and educator Eve L. Ewing. With charming hand-drawn black-and-white illustrations...

Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership...

The only picture book biography of Dudley Randall--a poet, publisher, and leader of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s--from Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner...

Flip through hundreds of record sleeve artworks from Folkways, one of the most iconic independent record labels dedicated to global music The Folkways Records and...

Reflecting on the near-loss of her husband and the death of her mother and a beloved friend, Rachel Eliza Griffiths calls upon some of her...

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin...

With this, his 17th book and his 4th poetry collection, Kevin Powell further cements his legacy as one of the most celebrated political, cultural, literary,...