Collection: Poetry

A celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience.In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the...

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE...

Black lesbian feminist, essayist, journalist, poet, author, and cultural worker, Anita Cornwell wrote extensively about her experiences as a Black lesbian in the United States...

From an award-winning, innovative poet, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age In her second full-length collection, Maya Salameh offers...

  A tender, searching collection that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home...

For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the award-winning poet...

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants--containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)--a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet...

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling...

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

A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called “the Millennial Oprah” by New York Magazine—that offers creative inspiration and...

Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms. In The Gloomy...

From award-winning poet and novelist Phillip B. Williams, an astonishing new collection that revels in the possibility of creating one's own lightCaptivating for both its...

Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America's greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other,...

Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity. Inspired by the nineteenth...

A picture book celebration of girl dads everywhere by The Dad Gang CEO, Sean Williams—now in a lower-price format! A fun read-aloud written in upbeat...

A gorgeously illustrated centennial of Langston Hughes' first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, this picture book includes select poems paired with vibrant artwork by more...

A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.I am no mystic. I knownothing...

Shane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary...

"Jason Allen-Paisant deftly inscribes his own signature on worlds inner and outer in these gorgeous poems. The future of Caribbean lyric poetry is in great...

"In My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper, Alyesha Wise invites us into stories that are as raw as they are healing. Through themes of family,...

Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality.   Kameryn Alexa Carter is a poet and founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for...

From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona 'Tank' Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into...

Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as...