In early thirteenth-century Japan, calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika chose one hundred poems of solitude, nature, aging, loneliness, beauty, and desire from one hundred poets of the previous five centuries—Hyakunin Isshu—a collection... Read More

Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race, education, history, culture, gender, pain, and passion. Every poet, of course, draws on as much, but why is it that so many Black women poets’ where-from place... Read More

No American education should be considered complete without a visceral understanding of plantation life for teenage Black girls in the slavery centuries before the Civil War, when molestation and sexual trauma were so routine that... Read More

Exploring personal identities in metaphorical, poetic terms, "The Light Looks Like Me" is a passionate and inspiring LGBTQIA+ anthology. A touching and complex anthology, "The Light Looks Like Me" explores what it means to love. Mixing... Read More

"A Place No Flowers Grow" is a modern fairy tale in verse that’s shot through with menace. A young couple in love has their happiness threatened by mistakes from their past in "A Place No Flowers Grow", Cheryl Cantafio’s dark,... Read More

In Marcella Pixley’s aching novel-in-verse "Neshama", a lonely, gifted girl navigates middle school tensions and family secrets with some supernatural help. For Anna, who records ghost poems in her notebook and is ostracized at school,... Read More

Transmitting warmth and love for all creatures on earth, "Bright Mornings, Lit Paths" is a soothing religious poetry collection. Patti Jones Morgan’s faith-filled poetry book "Bright Mornings, Lit Paths" celebrates beauty in the world.... Read More

Dealing with universal themes of Christian devotion, including doubt, praise, and forgiveness, God’s Word in Verse is an affecting poetry collection. Callie Turner’s slim poetry collection God’s Word in Verse borrows the imagery of... Read More