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...

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...

... Why all of a sudden The tears start to fall And I feel the need The lord is who I have to call And when the pain has sunk So deep inside ... ...

Lyrics of Lowly Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different t...

I present to you chapters of my life, my point of view and what I have felt and witnessed as a human being on this earth. We all share the pains ...

In this poetic memoir, Nastashia Minto strips herself of who she used to be and gives readers permission to see her naked. Exploring topics of fa...

This collection highlights the complexities of fatherhood and how to raise young kids while bearing witness to the charged movements of social in...

Red Channel in the Rupture is a gathering place for the troubling abuses of the past. Looking through the lens of the present moment, Thomas show...