Fiction - Black Reads

In his debut full length collection, Junious 'Jay' Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Composition interrogates the historical perception...

Soundtracked with soul, disco, and funk hits from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the speaker of Testify returns in Trouble Funk to tell the story of ho...

A Louisville Poets Anthology edited byLouisville native and acclaimed Horsepower author Joy Priest.Conceived in the aftermath of city-wideprotests ...

A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophistica...

As well-known as The Harlem Renaissance has become in American Culture, with its bigger-than-life luminaries in literatures, music, art and theater...

As well-known as The Harlem Renaissance has become in American Culture, with its bigger-than-life luminaries in literatures, music, art and theater...

A linguistically experimental and socially engaged collection of poems that examines questions of colorism within an economically driven world.In a...

Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance Hughes invented jazz poetry Regardless of whether he was...

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 ...

2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearne...

WINNER OF THE 2018 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD Geffrey Davis’s second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it mea...

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes him...

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundament...