African American

The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and pres...

Season 15 winner of America's Got Talent, Brandon Leake, presents his debut poet...

A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed p...

A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has ...

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award ...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James...

Duende is the award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red ...

Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praise...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Hur...

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that se...

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first published book of poetry by ...

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the b...

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author...

Inspirational poetry by bernice willis

In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs...

Horace Mungin’s brave attempt to fight against the multiple manifestations of injus...

The Winter Years is a book of contemporary modern poetry written for teens and adults. It...

Inspirational poems

A collection of poems

A book of short stories coupled with contemporary poetry in different forms.

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Loopi...

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY ...

Emotions seal closed doors, but it's the heart that pries them open. Once we step inside,...

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the l...

From "one of the most impressive voices in poetry today" (Dissent magazine), a new collec...

What My Hand Say, on one hand is a bold unapologetic tribute of black people living their...

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from ...

An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her...

A Walk Through Brooklyn is a journey told through a collection of poetry. Each step taken...

Abandoned by her hustling father, raised by her devoted mother, then battered by the wind...

"In Fables, Foibles, & Other 'Merican Sins, Amoja Sumler displays, with ed...

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a fin...

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of c...

From the critically acclaimed author of Thief in the Interior who writes with "a lucid, u...

This program is read by the author.An incisive new collection of poetry on political and ...

Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins's ambitious debut collection, interrogates ...

Immerse yourself in the poetic world of K.Y. Robinson.The Poetry of K.Y. Robins...

Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving ...

This program is read by the author.A powerful, inventive collection from one of America&r...

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black ...

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look a...

This is a short collection of poetry from the pen and mind of Nyles Adams, most of which ...

Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their...

Azure Antoinette has been called "the Maya Angelou of the Millennial generation.”A ...

Embark on a gentle journey back to self with this wistful and inspiring collection of poe...

Social media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of...

Zimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal exp...

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching...

Not Enough Time is written in the form of a mini bio in a poetry form. Each chapter ...