Words on a Page: Killing my Inner Demons Through Poetry

A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander.  Includes an introduction by the author.

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this co...

Ask yourself, what makes life worth living?Our existence many has swirls and flings followed ups down; mountains, canyons, and rivers to cross. Understandably, we cannot unfailingly feel fulfilled. We feel depressed at times. That, too, is all right...

Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is “a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively.” Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adai...

The Strength In Our Scars is Bianca Sparacino's reminder to you: No matter what you're going through, no matter where you are on your healing journey—you are strong. Through poetry, prose, and the compassionate encouragement you would expect ...

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the ...

Life is short. Too short. Sometimes made shorter.?Ned has been in this place before, at least five times he can recall. But he's never arrived to this place first.?Today he did... Ned Finally Died is an Adult Children's Book that...

The lead poem in this collection, "Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death," is a lovely bracelet of verse and prose poems that link brilliantly together in a gripping narrative and wrenching emotional journey through the illness and death of his wife....

Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.“You were supposed to ...