In this self-reflective and candid fourth collection, Wallschlaeger (Waterbaby) explores the Black female experience in formally varied poems (crisp couplets, prose poems, and some that use ...

The book-length poem Brand New Ancients, also published by Picador, won the Hughes award for its blend of music and verse and also works best in performance. But with Hold Your Own, edited by poet ...

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Since culture and society existed both before we live and after we die, poetry is a link to our passage through our own time and a record of poets’ perspectives throughout time. We know that ...

Her debut poetry collection reveals an earnest writer of strong declarations, clear anecdotes, and inspiring slogans, but also some clichés. Much of the book revolves around a modern Tiresias ...