Fiction - Diverse Reads

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...

Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary id...

In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. In the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre of ...

Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and...

"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between." So writes poet, critic,...

Darius Simpson's debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls bac...

Known variously as “‘the Windy City,”’ “‘the City of Big Shoulders,”’ or “‘Chi-Raq,”’ Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely dem...

Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry that shares many of the conc...

Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual PoetryFrom the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a power...

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and...

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, "CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint ac...