City of Bones

Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets,Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry p...

This 11 piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the ...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry In this stunning volume, ac...

When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacifi...

Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poetry of the 1990s, epitomized by poetry slams at the...

This in-depth analysis of the reggae superstar's poetry in lyric form delves into the songwriter'...

The death of a Jamaican man's father raises questions about the father's political endeavors, and...

This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--feature...

The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, Natural Mysticism shows how r...

This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thought...

The process of discovering home is ongoing. The past is raked as carefully as a sand garden, for ...

Renowned poet Kwame Dawes presents his most personal and universal work in this collection of car...

Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a ...

A man lies in a newspaper-lined room dreaming an other life. Bob Marley's spirit flew into him at...

When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand c...

'The miracle of empathy,” Kwame Dawes once said in an interview, 'is the ultimate aim of my writi...

The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey, Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen Corey, ...

Award-winning Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest.

As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Daw...

A powerful collection of poems from award-winning South Carolina poets on race, gender, history, ...

Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventi...

New & Selected Poems: Kwame Dawes

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features ...

In this compilation, more than 50 contemporary Jamaican poets reflect in outspoken, meditative, h...

Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of...

A Jamaican patois translation of the worldwide best-selling phenomenon.

A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one m...

In these 'shrines of remembrance' for the millions of the victims of transatlantic slavery, Kwame...

'In 'Wheels', Kwame Dawes brings the lyric poem face to face with the politics, natural disasters...

The debut novel from Jamaica's award-winning poet.

With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her p...

A collection of poetry and prose prompted by a renowned Gullah artist's paintings

Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.

In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to ...

This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set-an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project-features th...

Poems 93, 100 and 105 first appeared in the Boston Review.

Inspired by the word 'red,' this collection of poems written by black British writers--including ...

Directly addressing the relationship with his father, a Marxist Caribbean nationalist, Kwame Dawe...

Characterized by a beautifully realized reciprocity between outer landscape and the characters' i...

This is an anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry. The poems fuse reggae...

James Engelhardt is acquisitions editor at the University of Alaska Press and the former managing...

Borrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's ...

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features ...

Wheel and Come Again is a dancehall session in poetry, taking readers into the heart of reggae, i...

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features ...

'When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016, it was seen as doing something quite new: t...

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