Notes: This anthology features major writers as well as new talents and covers the time period from slavery and Reconstruction to the early 21st century.

Notes: "A haunting collection of lyrically-intense persona poems, Black Crow Dress is at once about the emancipation of slaves in their myriad voices as well as a meditation on the self. The collection's lush imagery takes us from church yard to church, chanting the old spirituals, as Johnson seeks to embody the spirits of the dead: Clea, Caroline, and Zebedee"

Notes: "Winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award."

Notes: "This first career retrospective gathers generous selections from Alexander's previous work, along with twenty pages of new poetry, including her poem "Praise Song for the Day," delivered at Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration