Topic_African American Poetry

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Br...

Notes From Your BooksellerWhether it's personal or political, we need Nikki Giovanni's beautiful and poetic voice. The poems and prose in Make Me...

Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Boston Globe and Lit HubLonglisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Po...

Color (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English, Color was...

In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S....

Poems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?Dancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers ...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI’m made of murderers I’m madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poorand...

“Earth, Wind and Fire” is the title track to PoeTaree: The Jurisprudence of Life. It’s like I wrote the complete manuscript to one of their timel...

PERFECTLY IMPERFECT Poems of Encouragement, Reflection and Revelation of God's Love is a volume of poetry birthed out of the healing process the ...

Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black fema...