A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes.

A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive?

Dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught—the rough-and-ready rambling’ man—to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for political struggle

An exposé of the gender gap in entrepreneurship and a road map for a more inclusive and economically successful future for us all

Reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas-not just extremist ones-can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings

The revolutionary life of an 18th-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life

An explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice

A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece, uniquely rendering the unforgettable humanity, vitality, and wisdom of its verse in incandescent English.

A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it

The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others

The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement

An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow