A passionate meditation on love and relationships…
Trovato delivers a moving ode to a lover’s memory in his reflective latest. Divided into four parts, the collection delves into the essence of loving relationships. Devotion and enduring love are rendered in… Loving: A Memoir by Jon Trovato
A passionate meditation on love and relationships…
Trovato delivers a moving ode to a lover’s memory in his reflective latest. Divided into four parts, the collection delves into the essence of loving relationships. Devotion and enduring love are rendered in… 
A darkly erotic celebration of love…
New love, sex, motherhood, heartbreak, and loneliness stay at the heart of Black’s latest collection. Drawing from her own experience, Black skillfully captures the despair, evolution, and growth along with the spirit and gist… 
A bold, memorable, and capacious collection…
In his gorgeously visceral third volume in Bar Poems, the award-winning McNair explores love, life, death, hope, and self-loathing. “Grateful, Dead” examines the inevitable nature of death whereas “Roaches” and “This Will Not Go… 
Refreshing… Powerful.
Coker’s impressive debut pulses with rhythms and assertiveness as it talks defiance against accepted order. The uplifting and inspiring “What Were You Told” urges all females, from a girl child to a mature woman, to believe in their… 
A piercing meditation on life, love, oppression, and freedom…
Taiwo gathers the expanse of human experience of love, life, and death in his debut collection of poems. The images that tumble from the collection are both stunning and uplifting, whether… 
Evocative and beautifully haunting…
Hollow uses speculative poetry to transcend a heartbroken lover’s grief in his haunting debut, a collection of short poems. Set against a haunted house backdrop, the collection comprises a sequence of poems, containing fragments from the… 
Rich and poignant… An affecting journey through life’s experiences…
Simultaneously sad and hopeful, this collection of 100 short poems by Thomas describes with candor and passion the everyday struggles people go through all the time, particularly the mental health problems.… 
A poignant collection that captures both the raw sorrows and joys of human existence…
Akinyemi weaves his exuberant latest collection of poems around the themes of depression and mental health problems. With candor and verve, he captures the pain of… 
Candid and lingering… A compelling collection.
Passionate and profound, Pack’s soulful collection of thirty poems takes the reader on a ride into the wild abandonment and chaos of a depressed mind as it embarks on a journey of self-love and… 
Sincere and candid…
Reflecting on love, loss, betrayal, grief, healing, and acceptance, unLYSHed chronicles the various phases of life in a series of deeply felt poems in her impressive debut. Ranging in emotions, the poems cover different stages of life—sowing,… 
Luminous and piercing…
Lyrical and reflective, award-winning Bruce’s latest, a collection of poems, micropoetry, and American haiku, offers a litany of ruminations on nature, love, and self. “Full Moon at Albion River” is a meditation on the wonders of nature.… 
Magnificent and breathtaking…
Carnabuci brings forth a modern translation of Beowulf composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet more than a millennium ago in the Germanic and one of the oldest surviving works of literature in the language. When the ferocious… 
A thoroughly creative and heartfelt work…
Sankarsingh explores politics, racism, colonialism, love, and life in general in his biting debut. The book is divided into six sections and each part differs in scope and subject with loss and melancholy bridging… 
Expansive and sagacious… a beautiful collection
Smith beautifully explores love, longing, sadness, hope, and mortality in her debut, a short collection of poetry, pictures, and flash fiction pieces. In the utterly inspiring “The Wolf Within,” she infuses the emotions as… 
A sweetly exotic collection filled with understanding, perception, melancholy, and hope…
Stevens offers a glimpse into his visionary inner world in this beautiful collection of poems, prose, and short stories. Demonstrating a sharp wit, he keenly observes how perception shapes… 
A meditation on life, love, hope, and despair…
Cotroneo’s debut collection of poems and short prose offers a glimpse in a young mind struggling with anxiety, self-doubts, and insecurities as he combines his reflections about life and death and nostalgia… 
A hard-hitting, compelling collection…
Nikola-Lisa uses a light hand to delve into topics that include violence against black people, ethnic disparity, and systematic racism in this compelling collection. Arranged in two sections, Nikola-Lisa juxtaposes startling observations with more common images,… 
A lean, searing celebration of a place rooted in hunger, violence, and intrigue…
In this first-rate short collection of poetry and prose, Aloba recalls growing up in Lagos, capturing the essence of a vibrant, heaving city where people meander, both… 
Profound and powerful…
The beautiful latest collection by Akinyemi broaches an impressive array of challenging subjects, among them the complexity, joy, and heartbreak of black experience, death, acts of God, and celebration of love. Akinyemi’s black culture is not an… 
Measured and reflective…
Meditative and precise, this debut collection of poetry from Writes offers meditations on soul-searching and redemption. Feelings of loss and pain and realities of joy and happiness suffuse these poems, and a quest toward understanding self stays… 
