Fiction - Black Reads

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...

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 ...

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 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 discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Esca...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...

A revised and expanded paperback edition of We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin with all-new bonus material fro...

Winner, 2021 Northern California Book Award Finalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where wo...

Samantha King Holmes brings forth a raw, original perspective. A collection of poetry that breathes hope into the idea of love while mourning the...

Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body....

“To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience.  My experience particularly.  It’s a book about grief, death, rebir...

This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje ...

Notes From Your BooksellerBy now you’ve read Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem from the 2021 Inauguration. Which then means you’...

Imagine trying to find the words you've been trying to say, but nothing seems to come. Those memories you once shared with your first love, your fi...

Through Poems for the People Author Teresia Simmons' Mahogany Musings Book Series, readers explore the process of living through and overcoming pai...

Through Poems for the People Author Teresia Simmons' Mahogany Musings Book Series, readers explore the process of living through and overcoming pai...

Raising Kings: Book of Poems is a collection of creative writing that explores the black male experience in America. The poems reflect the struggle...

Render Me Bountiful is a collection of poetry that was written to fill your entire mind, body, and spirit with a new breath of life. You are at onc...

A poetry volume about intimacy in all forms. This collection is broken into four chapters: self, platonic, romantic and somewhere in the middle. Th...

Poetry. Selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Chaney's poems travel a landscape of joy and rage, self and society...