In this installment, Yona Harvey shares some of her favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading she gave following on Voca.
Fortress, Brenda Hillman
Local History, Erica Hunt
Black + Blues, Kamau Brathwaite
The Book of Light, Lucille Clifton
Plot, Claudia Rankine
The Tether, Carl Phillips
In Mad Love and War, Joy Harjo
Mercurochrome, Wanda Coleman
Postmodern American Poetry, ed. Paul Hoover
The Essential Haiku, ed. Robert Hass
Juniper Fuse, Clayton Eshleman
Steal Away, C.D. Wright
The Love Space Demands, Ntozake Shange
Natural Birth, Toi Derricotte
The Cloud of Knowable Things, Elaine Equi
The Black Interior, Elizabeth Alexander
Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep, ed. Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton
Neon Vernacular, Yusef Komunyakaa
Never Mind, Taha Muhammad Ali
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.