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A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive loneliness yes, everyone is struggling right now so please be gracious be kind & patient, but subvert every institution that relies...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal. “In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance—an instrument for creating a world rooted in...

An all-star ensemble cast of poets and performers bring to life Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature! For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity. In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha...

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might...

Moonflower by Phillip Shabazz is a collection of poems that capture the experience of living through prolonged barriers, disparities, and challenging times. Written in a meditative, identity-based style, the poems resemble an urban tapestry, touching on the cost of progress and the fading spirit of community in the early twenty-first century. Moonflower draws upon a symbol between the journey of the speaker and the contemporary American experience, reflecting on the external and internal conflict between nihilism, hope, and redemption. The collection emphasizes the resistance and steady ...

Lyrics about the worlds in my books, military motifs, sad stories, and more.

In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet (“Stirring. . . . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge” —Los Angeles Review of...

From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has...

Step away from the shore and into the journey with Bethany Lee's The Coracle and the Copper Bell. This collection speaks of summer plums and starlight, of circuses and saltwater, all pointing to the work it takes to weave body and soul into a trustworthy vessel, capable of navigating the currents of a life with curiosity and courage. These poems will carry you through the undoing to the essence beyond. You will find here a faithful companion to buoy you in the lifelong voyage of becoming.

“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space for a truth that is sometimes painful and always necessary.”—Jericho Brown, Pulitzer...

‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG ‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY ‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR COMMENTARY A deeply powerful collection of poems about life in Gaza by...

Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles. Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...

Deep Down, The Rabbit Hole Poetry" offers an immersive exploration of the tumultuous years of 2023 and 2024 as the world navigated uncertainty and upheaval. Against this backdrop, a poet emerges, wielding their pen as a beacon of truth in a sea of chaos. This collection of over 125 poem stories provides a raw and unfiltered examination of the human experience, from the mundane to the profound. In the first chapter, "Death, Life, and the Brief Dance Between," themes of guilt, grace, and introspection set the stage for a deep exploration of the complexities of existence. The poet reflects on ...

I have always wanted to try my hand at rhyming and I am very satisfied with this book. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as i enjoyed writing it.

Brought to you by Penguin. A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home. Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Hubo un tiempo en que los frutos de la tierra se aventaban en las eras, y las palabras se murmuraban apenas, con los labios tensos, los ojos vigilando las esquinas, como si las piedras pudieran delatar los pensamientos no pronunciados. Entonces, no discutíamos de política... Hubo un tiempo en que lo más extraño de otras tierras era el forastero con su puesto en la plaza, o el mozo del pueblo vecino que osaba cortejar a una muchacha. Se le arrojaba al pilón del pozo si no pagaba la patente, y si la pagaba... también. Los negros eran cabezas de escayolacon ranura en el cogote, los ...

“El Clamor de mi alma” es una colección de poemas que habla de varias situaciones que se enfrenta en la vida. Enfoca diversos temas relacionados con el mundo interior: el amor, la mente, la angustia, la soledad, el clamor por justicia, el perdón, el consuelo y también habla del mundo espiritual y terrenal relacionado con el Mesías y Lucifer. Está dividido en cuatro capítulos: Capítulo I El alma y la razón, Capítulo II El alma y el espíritu, Capítulo III La Luz y la oscuridad, Capítulo IV El clamor por la justicia.