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House and Home

Sheri Flowers Anderson

A collection of poems that intensely explore the beauty and wisdom to be found in what we commonly call "everyday" encounters, relationships, occurrences, and spaces.

Paperback
Published: February 2023
ISBN: 9780940713307
$20.00

Body Not My Own

Tanque R. Jones

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.

Paperback
Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780940713291
$20.00

am-phib-ian

Jessica Lanay

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

Paperback
Published: February 2020
ISBN: 9780940713284
$20.00

Blues Legacy

Jacquese Armstrong

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.

Paperback
Published: February 2019
ISBN: 9780940713277
$20.00

Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World

The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

Dr. Sandra Staton-Taiwo

A colllection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780940713260
$20.00

Ascension

Poems by Malaika Favorite

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.

Paperback
Published: February 2016
ISBN: 9780940713239
$20.00

Heathen

R. Flowers Rivera

Collection of poems by R. Flowers Rivera, Naomi Long Madgett Poetry award winner.

Paperback
Published: February 2015
ISBN: 9780979750991
$18.00

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Poems by Austin Alexis

An emotionally and intellectually stimulating first book from Austin Alexis.

Paperback
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780979750984
$18.00

What Keeps Me Sane

Poems by Esperanza Cintrón

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

Paperback
Published: February 2013
ISBN: 9780979750977
$18.00

The Dropped Hand

Terry Blackhawk

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

Paperback
Published: January 2012
ISBN: 9780979750946
$15.00

Three Birds Deep

Poems by Sheila Carter-Jones

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

Paperback
Published: January 2012
ISBN: 9780979750953
$18.00

Jonestown

A Vexation

Carmen Gillespie

Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.

Paperback
Published: January 2011
ISBN: 9780979750939
$18.00

Solitude of Five Black Moons

Aurora Harris

Collection of poems by Aurora Harris giving voices to those who are marginalized or oppressed.

Paperback
Published: January 2011
ISBN: 9780940713215
$18.00

Home Sweet Sanctuary

Idlewild Families Celebrate a Century

Gloria House

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

Paperback
Published: January 2011
ISBN: 9780940713222
$39.99

Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions

Edward Bruce Bynum

A highly original collection of poetry from Edward Bruce Bynum.

Paperback
Published: January 2010
ISBN: 9780979750922
$18.00

Troubled Tongues

Crystal Williams

2006 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award winning collection.

Paperback
Published: January 2009
ISBN: 9780979750915
$18.00

Conversion

By Remica L. Bingham

2007 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry award winning collection.

Paperback
Published: January 2007
ISBN: 9780916418984
$18.00

Pilgrim Journey

Naomi Long Madgett

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

Hardback
Published: May 2006
ISBN: 9780916418977
$35.00

Adam of Ifé

Black Women in Praise of Black Men

By Naomi Long Madgett

Collection of poetry from Lotus Press.

Paperback
Published: January 2006
ISBN: 9780916418809
$18.00

Connected Islands

New and Selected Poems

By Naomi Long Madgett

A collection of poems that focus on the contrast between individual and common experience.

Paperback
Published: January 2004
ISBN: 9780916418946
$17.00

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