Poetry

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.

Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long gone.

Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.

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.

Contemporary Native American poetry and prose that celebrate the successes, while acknowledging ongoing challenges.

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.