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In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange...

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" ...

Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don’t Tell Me Not to A...

“Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia’s intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individua...

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the third and final volume in the "Planting Gardens in Graves" series.r.h. Sin comp...

Recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lit...

Prime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a nec...

Mother Body is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As Mother Body unfol...

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection ...

Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Poetry From the introduction by Michael A. Arnzen: Welcome to one of the meatiest colle...

Hakim Bellamy's latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Marti...

Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature AssociationWinner, 2020 World Fantasy AwardsWinner,...

Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. ...

Fill Up on Hope with Self Love Notes Self Love Notes is a collection of uplifting poetry, affirmations, and quotes celebrating unconditionally lo...

Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and T...

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as...

Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitati...

Two years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Esca...

For fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King’s raw, relatable poetry both celebrates love and mourns the human “curse to feel.” Her vers...

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III.  His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matt...