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,...

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

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...

Take to the Highway is a book about journeys and the intricate memory map of human consciousness....

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 ...

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...

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

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

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