African American Studies

Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.

Poems about the joys and struggles of complex, contemporary life—and heartbreak.

An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.

Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

A collection of tightly crafted poems of intense imagery, sharp cadence, and poignant emotional resonance, representing the African American experience of enslavement in the United States.

A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.

Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century.

Exploring the will to survive the existential disorientation and emotional loss resulting from fractured relationships with lovers and kin.

An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.