Heavy Talk: Poetry From the Hip Hop / Crack Generation, Volume I is a raw, powerful, and deeply personal collection of poetry that chronicles life, struggle, redemption, faith, family, addiction, incarceration, Black identity, and survival in America. Written over more than two decades, these poems capture the voice of a man who lived through the realities of the crack epidemic, prison life, street culture, and spiritual transformation.With unfiltered honesty and l...

WINNER of the Gotham Book Prize * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story PrizeNamed a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review of Books, LitHub, and Electric Lit“A standout achievement…American speech is an underused commodity in contemporary fiction and...

**In this fantastically sharp novel, a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.“Dangerously hilarious.” —Los Angeles Times**Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn...

One minute I was looking for my retainer in the bathroom. The next, I was staring at a boy who looked just like me. And I don't mean my reflection! What's going on here?

An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this countryWritten in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind millennial talent. Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the nineties and early 2000s, Kendra Allen had a complicated, loving, and intense family life filled with desire a...

**“Keenan Norris is simply one of the most talented young writers around.” – Victor LaValleCopeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive…**He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confoundin...

What They Call Ugly is a collection of short stories that gives full credit to the true ugliness in this world. It will open the eyes of some and serve as a testimonial to others.

Cole Kitchen is a musical revolutionary who exits the world unexpectedly with a single gunshot wound to the head. Grace Jackson is a gifted medium with a penchant for attracting souls who seek both lightness and truth. More than 20 years after his death, Cole Kitchen appears in Grace's apartment relaying a single, cryptic message. Did Cole succumb to the pressures of life in the limelight and kill himself?Cigarettes and Butter is a first-hand account of a rock legend's las...

The world's first compilation of life advice as told by a rat. Meet famous agony-rodent, Alloway (who runs a regular column in the Ratto Bamboozlin' Facebook group). Heal your broken heart. Learn all about the mysterious ways of hoomans. Find out the meaning of life. Includes a bonus astrology section. Warning: not for children under 12 or pets under three months.

A short collection of poetry that compliments a beautiful soul.

Th is book is full of Down Home Wisdom to be shared from one generation to another.

Life isa journey, through each of our souls. This isa small collection of poetry derived from my journey within.