Category - Poetry

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems   Reaching from th...

This volume--a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry--brings together modern ...

Harry Garuba's Shadow and Dream, a slim yet highly influential collection which immediately gained a cult following, has continued to elicit the aw...

A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks.Baptisim by b...

Up From Religion is the debut collection of poetry by author and blogger, Mo'Reese Madu. In the searing pages of this revolutionary memoir, Madu ex...

"The Last Words Will Be Spoken" takes the reader on a proverbial journey from the pen and page to the mic and stage. The reader will go on an authe...

Originally and it may still be] a-work-in-progress... Yet, I have decided to move beyond the comfort of my computer and four little walls of an ap...

African-American scholars have cited James Weldon Johnson's 1927 book of poems, "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" as one of the autho...

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United Sta...

A 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner.Traversing twenty-three years of earth and breath, Quraysh Ali Lansana's first new and collected poems...

"It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake."--Brigit Pegeen Kell...

For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature...

In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience a...

The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...

A Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals...