A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love, and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.

Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—”Dear White America”—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.

In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.

An award winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things.

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive.

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jericho Brown’s daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal.