There Where It’s So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella Boni is uniquely positioned to test the distinctions of self, other, and belonging. Two twenty-first-century civil wars have made her West African home country of Côte d’Ivoire unstable. ...

Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be translated into English. These poems wrestle with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa’s Ivory Coast in the first decade of the new millennium. Boni maps these events onto a mythic topography where people live among their ancestors and are subject to the whims of the powerful, who are at once magical and all too petty....

A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combine elements of history and mythology.Guébo considers the Medite...

Suppose you could make God part of your everday life.Suppose you could ask questions about love and faith, life and death, good and evil--and God answered in a way that you could truly understand.Neale Donald Walsch asked, and God responded.These meditations, taken from the pages of his seminal work, Conversations with God, are full of true universal wisdom that will guide and comfort you along life's journey.You may come home whenever you wish.We can be together again whenever you want.Th...

Can someone really be saved by a poem?In Kim Rosen’s book, the answer is a resounding "Yes!"Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, freedom, and insight.Whether you are a lover of poetry or have yet to discover its power, Rosen offers a new way to experience a poem. She encourages you ...

Do you ever wake up in the morning and do your thang, get in your groove, and have so much fun and ease doing it? Then you go out in "the world" and it gets less and less fun until you realize you've put on some sort of strange, not-you costume, trying to do your best to fit in the world but it doesn't work so well?I don't know about you, but I have!Guess what? I'll tell you a secret. You being you: warts n' all, not watching what you say, not censoring anything about you, a...

Breathe.You have been in this battleground for too long.Step aside, scream, shout, cry or laugh.This book is the safe space whereemotions don’t need to behidden behind closed door.Feel as much as you like.This life is too long,to keep it all inside.

Winner, 2023 Trillium Book Award for PoetryFinalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardThe highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.In Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. Sharply political and frequently magical, these often-intimate poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 film Princess Mononoke to German Oriental...

"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."—Wilma MankillerIn her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole.

Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark “other” by reclaiming the throbbing, many-t...

This book is a call to action for you to find the courage, comfort and confidence to have conversations about death and dying, with the overarching hope that you will embrace living well and dying well.

Bring joy to your life, joy to your plants, joy to your goldfish. Be a dispenser of joy. And when people see you coming, they'll say, "Why, the sun just came out. The sun came into my room." And that will be the truth because joy is the sun of your heart. Joy, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet…is something precious that is without price, for it comes directly from the heart.