National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown mu...

This debut novel is a profoundly absurd campus satire about immortality, obsession, obscurit...

A darkly comic rat's tale of exile, unrequited love, and the redemptive power of literature....

With rootless cosmopolitanism, formal rigor, and the fluidity of slam, Jones explores questi...

From a NY School master, wide-ranging poems that eyeball mortality with rare equilibrium, ap...

The lives of Marge Quinn, stenographer, and Abraham Chelikowsky, sometimes painter, are impr...

An award-winning poet turns to her indigenous background to consider loss, memory, and the f...

Cross Worlds engages cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances and associations, and...

A storm's-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.

The third novella inI Hotel, a 2010 National Book Award finalist and epic of America’...

The four-month odyssey of a literary lowlife.

'Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.'--E. Ethelbert Miller