A selection of the most loved poems from African-American, lesbian-feminist poet Pat Parker—renowned for her invaluable contributions to social justice.

This debut collection explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the poet’s uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran.

Something about Living explores Palestinian life through the lens of language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal?

Kat Addis is an artist and PhD candidate (at NYU) in renaissance literature, currently writing a dissertation about slavery and race in early modern European epics. Space Parsley (the87press, 2021) is Kat's first full-length book of poetry.

An operatic, polyphonic novel that follows Emi Terazawa/Lua Mater — a performance artist creating a text that maps Vietnamese intergenerational stories across genocide, psychosis, and the resistance that follows.

Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous.

This collection interlaces the spectacles of gender, faith, and family and unravels the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Theophanies testifies to women's capacity for piercing and musical exegesis and asks: what more might a woman’s body hold after it has been hailed as a vessel for the divine?