Poetry

From the renowned Booker Prize–winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and COVID-19.In our times of crisisThe mind has its powersThis book brings together many of...

(Available after 3-20 days)Titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis May’s poems describe mental...

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of “quiet” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.“Bulley’s stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they]...

(Available after 3-20 days) "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.”  —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead    Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New...

A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI’m a song, changing. I’m a lightrain falling through a vastdarkness toward a differentdarkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.   In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine."Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a...

A selection of Keats's greatest poemsOver the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit,...

Readers have called her work “life changing,” “pandemic medicine,” and “part of my daily ritual.” Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry...

If the daily, no, hourly news reports about unresolved racial tension and inequalities haven’t informed the world, then our call to attention are the poems of Dr. Martina McGowan. The succinct, sharp and direct poems in I am The Rage require us to...

Perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Elizabeth Acevedo, Jasmin Kaur’s stunning debut novel is a collection of poetry, illustrations, and prose.   screamso that one daya hundred years from nowanother sister will not have todry her tears wonderingwhere in...

(Available after 3-20 days)Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry categoryWinner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry PrizeFinalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry categoryFinalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry categoryCatalog of Unabashed...

"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's...

“yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.” —nayyirah waheed, author of salt.From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a...

(Available after 3-20 days) Birds of Prey and Paradise is a follow-up to Juniper's sapphic bestseller, Coming Home to Her. Birds of Prey and Paradise explores themes of growing up, coming out, compulsory heterosexuality, and falling in love with a...

(Available after 3-20 days)In this three part poetry collection, Logan Duane explores the deepest parts of her heart, soul, and mind. Words for tired hearts illustrates her experiences with love, heartache, mental illness, recovery, and self-identity...

(Available after 3-20 days)In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Light Filters In, this compilation of short, powerful poems from bestselling poet Trista Mateer shines beauty and insight into relationships, love, growing up, and...

A collection of modern poetic-style prose to cradle, comfort, guide and hold space for emotions big and small. Fans of Brianna Wiest, Bianca Sparacino, and Yung Pueblo are sure to enjoy.I Have to Tell You Something is Zara Bas's first book of pieces...

You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It’s not something they say. It’s something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you."A collection that will beg you to be...

(Available after July 30th, 2023)An unforgettable, lighthearted story about a young woman who discovers the insular world of writers, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home.Carla is in her twenties, working for a landscaper,...