Collection: Poetry

Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work...

NYT Bestselling Author, Frederick Joseph, explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through...

To make the right decisions for your future, you must maintain a connection to your past. In her debut book, podcaster, priestess, and all-around badass...

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm--Visions of...

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior lives, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies"A...

Black Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black...

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023 A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of...

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting...

  A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA ...

From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanhood in the American South In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber...

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...

May you know fear but not be driven by itMay you know joy and follow it everywhereMay you know light and shine it every chance...

In The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the...

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and artA Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely heard Palestinian...

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...

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry--to...

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide  One by one,...

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing...

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream―and work―toward a more capacious "we"In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered...