A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot t

A biography of the African American woman and Civil Rights worker, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott, which lasted more than a year in

Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language

A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.

A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's Africa