City of Bones

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the first major poet out of Africa's oldest republic of Liberia since t...

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

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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 ...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, compete...

In Wisteria, Kwame Dawes finds poignant meaning in the landscape and history of Sumter, a small t...

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Praise for Kwame Dawes

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The sixth collection of this profound dialogue between two major poets from opposite sides of the...

Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes...

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

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The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slaver...