POETRY / American / African American

A new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates...

Poems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home

The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines motherhood—with and without children—and the common space between families, lovers, and strangers.

Patricia Smith's unrivaled dexterity with dramatic monologue and poetic form reanimates these countenances, staring back from such yesterdays, and the stories they may have told. This is one of American literature’s finest wordsmiths doing what she does best—unreeling history to find its fierce and formidable lyric.
 

The Way of the Earth is the fourth collection from award-winning poet Matthew Shenoda. In this, his most personal collection to date, he explores the temporal and fleeting nature of both human life and the earth we inhabit.

The poems in Blessed Are the Peacemakers ask what it means to make peace and examine the lengths and limitations of grace.

These political love poems challenge the injustices of ageism, racism, isolation, and oppression with bravery and kindness.

This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New York. As adults, Ray has found success while Scotty struggles, but both seek love, comfort, and a place in the world.