Broadside Lotus Press

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.

Blues Legacy is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems in which the blues and other forms of African American music serve as metaphors representing the spirit of determination and perseverance that characterizes African American culture.

A collection of brilliantly crafted poems with intense imagery and cadence, representing the African American experience of enslavement and the author’s rootedness in the folkways and history of African Americans in Louisiana.

An emotionally and intellectually stimulating first book from Austin Alexis.

The Dropped Hand is an attempt to create poetry that lives in the face of loss.

Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.

A cultural study of the remarkable community of Idlewild, an African American resort in northern Michigan.

2006 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award winning collection.

The intimate and detailed autobiography of Naomi Long Madgett, award-winning poet and poet laureate of Detroit.