Soul and substance

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of unconventional essays that he calls “exami...

Super sad black girl

In her brilliant debut collection of poetry, Diamond Sharp navigates questions of mental health, grief, and joy through her speaker’s sardonic and playful imagination.

Teahouse of the almighty

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation’s premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade—a Na...

The body family

Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America.

The breakbeat poets

Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets feat...

The breakbeat poets vol. 2

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

The collected poems of lucille clifton 1965-2010

Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.

The delicacy of embracing spirals

the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens. “mimi tempestt writes like a third testament in which God (or our understanding) finally matures. Like a painter longed for by a milli...

The negroes send their love

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. “How big is a home?” “What is space without reaching?” “You ever think about being remembered?”Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’...

The she said dialogues

A reprint of the intersectional black feminist classic by the late poet and performer Akilah Oliver.

The terrible stories

The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

Too much midnight

Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora.

Watchnight

WINNER OF THE JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARDWINNER OF THE KENNY FRIES DISABLED WRITER LITERARY AWARDIn WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.In exhilarating lyric...

We generous

What we ask of flesh

Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African-American poet examines and heals wounds of flesh and spirit.

Wild indigo

A stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantationWild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut—a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, ...