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House and Home
Publication Date: February 2023
This is poetry that grounds us, brings us home, so to speak, while initiating us into the magic that brightens and coheres our intimate lives.
Body Not My Own
Publication Date: February 2021
These powerful poems offer insight into the historic resolve, self-determination and resilience of the enslaved African community.
Am-Phib-Ian
Publication Date: February 2020
This collection is the story of a spirit determined to survive the journey—appropriating in the effort whatever available tools and attributes—human or amphibian.
Blues Legacy
Publication Date: February 2019
While the poet honors this ancestral past, she points to the future, appealing to African American women especially to empower themselves, and step confidently into their roles as community torchbearers.
Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World
Publication Date: February 2018
Readers will be challenged and delighted by Staton-Taiwo's rich, sophisticated perspectives and artistry.
Heathen
Publication Date: February 2015
This is an extremely satisfying collection of poems that invite the reader to return to it again and again.
The Dropped Hand
Publication Date: January 2011
With patience and wisdom and, above all, with love, she crafts the vessel that counters dissolution."
Jonestown
Publication Date: January 2011
Readers of poetry will appreciate the questions of religion, race, nationality, power, civil rights, sexuality, and identity that Gillespie engages through the enigma of Jonestown.
Octavia
Publication Date: January 2002
Octavia was made required reading in all Detroit public high schools.
Three Birds Deep
Publication Date: January 2012
These are poems that draw the reader back to them over and over, not for information but for the music that resonates long after the book is closed.
Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions
Publication Date: January 2010
The following three sections present poetic meditations on various subjects including love, death, current events, "the holy feminine in everyone,and creative writing.
Pilgrim Journey
Publication Date: May 2006
Madgett's fans and anyone interested in studying the life of an extraordinary poet will enjoy this honest autobiography.
Ascension
Publication Date: January 2016
With a measured, lean, and luminous style, the poet shares her intimate experience of place—home, familiar rituals, sites of historic resonance, and consciousness of the power and beauty of the natural world.
Privacy Issues
Publication Date: January 2014
Privacy Issues is an emotionally and intellectually stimulating first book by the winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
What Keeps Me Sane
Publication Date: November 2013
While all four of these women are challenged mental breakdowns, each one eventually achieves a suggestion of triumph and a promise for a better future.
Solitude of Five Black Moons
Publication Date: January 2011
Such themes pervade the brilliant poetry of Solitude of Five Black Moons, winner of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Multicultural Award for Excellence in Literature, 2012.
