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A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.  In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award–winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays—Caliban and Syco... Read More about When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again: Poems

A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.  In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award–winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays—Caliban and Syco... Read More about When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems

Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem." Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems--selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--begins w... Read More about Tula: Poems

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa ... Read More about Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

"Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention." --Black Issues Book Review In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dr... Read More about MACNOLIA: Poems

“Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly A. Van Jordan, an acclaimed American poet and the author of three previous volumes, “demonstrates poetry’s power to be at once intimate and wide-ranging” (Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World). In t... Read More about The Cineaste: Poems