Claribel Alegría, born in Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-cen...

This collection is a celebration of Paula Gunn Allen’s life (1939–2008) as an indigenous scholar,...

Passionate and sensuous to the limit of synesthesia, these poems address both the mind and body o...

Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Mal...

Winner of the 2013 West End Press Poetry Prize for a First Volume.This debut poetry collection ta...

With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody’s Jackknife explores power and powerlessn...

Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the autho...

Both a memorial and a call to awareness, these poems were written in response to the death of a f...

Here are poems of modern day survival, set in Los Angeles. The woman of the title (from a story b...

In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the them...

First published by West End Press in 1982, this book-length poem about a journey across America h...

In these poems, Marianne Broyles acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and oth...

Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only rout...

This sinewy novel chronicles life on a wrecking crew in the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood of Cinci...

Stark, militant, and searching poems bearing a fierce witness, from a member of the Cheyenne Dog ...

This provocative debut from National Poetry Slam Champion Carlos Contreras is a conversation in t...

“Lim’s poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight.”—Jon Parrish Peede, editor...

In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India i...

These interlocking stories begin with foundation tales of the migration of JJ, his wife Naomi, an...

''Every generation a few select voices seem to rise up and represent a revolution in the mechanic...

Written over a period of twelve years and published in magazines and anthologies, these beautiful...

These poems offer a vision of history, Indian and colonial; stories of contemporary Indian life a...

Forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, with a generous addition of new pieces, thi...

In her third poetry collection Jeanetta Calhoun Mish sends war dispatches from home. She brings h...

In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country’s centuries-old demons and co...

This popular poetry volume expresses Navajo life in its wholeness and sweetness, stressing the co...

In southwestern Oklahoma an intricate sense of community exists in the small neighborhoods of Com...

Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of ...

For one year after its arrival in the United States the dismantled Statue of Liberty sat in 214 u...

I have always lived deliberately. These are the words of an exceptional poet who, in ''Trouble Li...

These poems were collected and edited at Solentiname in Nicaragua in 1977 by the Venezuelan poet ...

Sonoran Strange is a poem cycle about the Arizona-Sonoran borderlands, as told through the storie...

Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad, and adding an American self to the...

Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges recounts the true story of what happe...

These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortu...

With Our Eyes Wide Open is an anthology composed of poets from America and around the world who w...

Performance poet and activist Ebony Isis Booth sheds light on Black feminism, racism and inequali...

The creative impulse of Michele D Gibbs comes from many sources: her Chicago childhood as the dau...

Poetry. Fiction. Memoir. For more than 40 years, Charles Potts has remained true to his origins a...

This beautiful collection of poetry is a powerful work of conscience, a telling of 'the truest st...

These narrative and lyric poems describe the contours of life in a Pacific Northwest logging town...

This is the second volume of poems by Naomi Quinnez to be published by West End Press. The first,...

Poetry. African American Studies. These poems reflect years of observation: checking out the stre...

Fiction. Women's literature. Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) lived all of her life in the middle wes...

Junkyard Dogs is the debut poetry collection by National Poetry Slam champion Damien Flores. His ...

In his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses ...

The legendary poet Charles Potts, born in Idaho Falls in 1943 and educated at Idaho State Univers...

These poems by a native son of the Embudo Valley in northern New Mexico express the heart of the ...