Poetry Books by BIPOC Authors
BIPOC poetry by contemporary and classic authors.
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry. The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential...
- by Tiana Clark
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
The striking sophomore poetry collection from award-winning author Tiana Clark. Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love with this lyrical poetry collection that explores topics as expansive as...
- by Mai Der Vang
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
Mai Der Vang’s poetry―lyrically insistent and visually compelling―constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
From award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century. Queer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt offers up a powerful...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
NYT Bestselling Author Frederick Joseph explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being...
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- by Fady Joudah
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians. Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with,...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers...
- by Danez Smith
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder...
- by Hala Alyan
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of...
- by Brandon Som
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging. “We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow...
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- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
Through experimental and visual poetry, Perez explores how storytelling can become a symbolic form of åmot, offering healing from the traumas of colonialism, militarism, migration, environmental injustice, and the death...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. ‘Āina hānau—or the land of one’s birth—signifies identity through...
- by Yung Pueblo
- Inspiration and Personal Growth, Nonfiction, Poetry, Self-Help
- Publication Year: 2023
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing...
- by Tayi Tibble
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging...
- by Noʻu Revilla
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
Anuradha Bhowmik’s life as a Bangladeshi-born American girl growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States gives shape to this debut collection. Brown Girl Chromatography interrogates issues of...
- Poetry, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from critically acclaimed author and...
- by Yung Pueblo
- Inspiration and Personal Growth, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Publication Year: 2021
From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2021
Tanaya Winder’s Words Like Love sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. As an accomplished poet, Winder traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most...