Books published by Willow Publishing

Poetry collection by Louise Waakaa'igan, recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem, “There is Where.” In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K. Waakaa’igan lets us hear the “winds of flutes” even as she writes from “concrete plains” of prison. In the tradition of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Marilyn Buck, this poet lets word fly through and beyond prison walls. A multilayered origin story, This is Where refuses to duck the contradictions of time, place and belonging.

Poetry collection on the history of Philadelphia and its people of color by Vernita Hall. The collection spans from the free people of color in colonial times to the present day and is steeped in research. Extensive coverage of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) history. Hall serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories.

Poetry collection by Rachelle Escamilla, Library of Congress Visiting Scholar. Escamilla is the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States, Out of Our Minds, and the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University. From 2012- 2014 Rachelle lived in China where she co-founded The Sun Yat-sen University English-language Center for Creative Writing and headed a lecture series at the American Center of the United States Consulate of Guangzhou. She is the winner of the Virginia de Arujo Academy of American Poets prize and she teaches Creative Writing and Social Action at California State University Monterey Bay.

Poetry collection by Naoko Fujimoto. Editor's Choice, Willow Books. Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Fujimoto is currently a Chicago-area graphic poetry artist.A RHINO associate editor, Fujimoto's Poetry & Art site introduces readers to graphic poetry and showcases book projects.

Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez explores the global oppression of women-and testifies to their resilience-in over 20 countries around the world. Based on real-life incidents ranging from Brazilian "honor killings" and Indian sati to Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and "Mississippi appendectomies" to rape as a weapon during the Rwandan genocide, this poetry collection bears witness to the sociocultural forces that have waged war on women's bodies, freedom, and humanity. Now, in the #MeToo era, these poems both underscore and expand the conversation on the diminishment of women, reverberating across all continents and through 43 centuries. Inlay with Nacre is herstory-the plight of Woman as bride, wife, mother, and daughter-and a call to action to restore the Feminine in the world.

Poetry collection based on slave narratives recorded by the Federal Writers' Project of President Roosevelt's Works Projects Admiinistration. "Refugeed" slaves were conveyed away from the advance of Federal forces in the American South. .

Poetry collection by Kahn Santori Davison. A photographer and music writer for the MetroTimes, Santori Davison has photographed and interviewed many notable artists, including Jack White of the White Stripes. Santori Davison is a Cave Canem and Kresge Fellow.Blaze explores the poet's quest for selfhood after he uncovers a long-buried family secret about his mother's death at the hands of his father and his father's suicide. The poet frames his life through his explorations of hip-hop and rock music.