Blood of the Air Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) by AmaCodjoe Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2020 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4171-1, ISBN: 0-8101-4171-X
"Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem—one of several found poems—calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In “She Said,” the collection’s longest piece, language culled from t ..."
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."
Bluest Nude Poems by Codjoe, Ama Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2022 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-542-7, ISBN: 1-57131-542-X
"With work by leading poets from the U.S. territories, commonwealths, states, and the District of Columbia, THE BEAUTIFUL engages both of these tasks."