Books like How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton

A collection of Maya Angelou's poetry celebrating life, strength, love, and remembrance.

Blues Baby: Early Poems collects Harryette Mullen’s debut collection Tree Tall Woman and her earliest uncollected poems, offering a glimpse into the poet’s autobiographical journey shaped by feminist and Black Arts movements.

A powerful collection of poems by the activist and scholar Sonia Sánchez, exploring the pain and beauty of African‑American womanhood and her quest for peace.

A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.

A battered old hound and two orphaned kittens fight perilous odds to escape a cruel owner and reunite in a risky, survival-filled journey.

A contemporary literary fiction that explores Mexican American identity, race, and family across generations and borders.

Anjail Rashida Ahmad's powerful exploration of African American women's heritage and pride in language and tradition.

A collection of poetry by Effie Waller Smith, offering insight into her life and experience as a turn‑of‑the‑century African‑American woman poet.

"Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently?. I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun"--