This poetry responds by bearing witness to oppression.

  Breaking the Jaws of Silence was reviewed in the May-August 2014 issue of World Literature Today. Wolpé has established her own work as a fearless poet in three collections, including Rooftops of Tehran. Both her aversion to oppression and her ability to...
The Golden Shovel Anthology

The Golden Shovel Anthology

New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
Second Edition
Edited by Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith
Foreword by Terrance Hayes
330 pages
6″ x 9″
978-1-68226-095-1 (paper)
February 2017
Second edition: May 2019

 

Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been

Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been

New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora
Edited by Persis M. Karim
Foreword by Al Young
978-1-55728-820-2 (paper)
May 2006

 

Award Winners

Award Winners John Kirk – Winthrop Rockefeller – Winner, 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association Michael Pierce and Calvin White – Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta – Winner, 2024 John William Graves Book Award,...