Poetry

Poems that consider threads of emotional attachment and separation against a backdrop of art, food, and Lebanese culture.

An emotionally and intellectually stimulating first book from Austin Alexis.

A new collection of poetry that introduces four women on the brink.

Poems that delight in discovering the comic, sorrowful, empathic, and spiritual in what is often overlooked.

Poems of stylistic and emotional range that journey widely through love’s losses and connections.

A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This is lyric poetry using words and phrases in a very creative and original way.

Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.

A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.