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IN1997

Detroit Poet Laureate jessicaCare moore, has relaunched as an imprint of Amistad/HarperCollins, celebrating its first publication: Every Where Alien by poet Brad Walrond. Now co-run by moore and Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, MBP is committed to publishing revolutionary works by leading and emerging Black voices in poetry and the performing arts.

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MBP Authors
Barbara Fant
Barbara Fant
Brad Walrond
Brad Walrond
jessica care moore
jessica care moore
asha bandele
asha bandele
SAUL WILLIAMS
SAUL WILLIAMS
DANNY SIMMONS
DANNY SIMMONS

  • "Some art will sit you down and make you look at your own beautiful self, force you to recognize it and find joy, the same kind you don't think you deserve. Or deserve right now. Joy in the Belly of a Riot cradles your face gently, and with its plutonic lips to your mouth, will tug up from you a response. If not your words, then your body, hoisted by a chain of inspired verbs till you're no longer nonverbal. That is Fant's power on the page, the kind that raises bodies."

    —Natashia Deón, author of the critically acclaimed novels The Perishing and Grace

  • "Barbara Fant’s deep reflections on grief and injustice contain a certain romanticism, but it is always reigned in by a pragmatic interrogation of what those beasts have done to Black life. Not even God escapes her emotional scalpel, and her cuts are deep, but not without light or love. For every shadow there is an ecstatic reckoning around the corner. Hers is a protest made of solemn magic and that conjures a better world whether it wishes to be one or not."

    —Scott Woods, author of Black Night is Falling

  • "Barbara Fant gives testimony and a blueprint for surviving. Fant revives the people with her poetry and studies each line, like one might study love. With true tenderness, she scribes liberatory practices and prayers; affirmations and songs, a healing song for us wearied by journey. A salve for the numb. Here are the poems we didn't know we needed, they give birth to bravery and give us space to "find the strength to fly".

    —Mahogany L. Browne

  • "Barbara Fant’s poems are smoldering affirmations. They singe first! Much like the tactile force in Ntozake Shange and Maya Angelou’s works, Fant’s text arrives always in service to the withering truth. The bounty of healing Joy in the Belly of a Riot accomplishes, takes trauma's inferno head on, and clears brush to the altars of soul work and self-forgiveness. Barbara Fant’s urgent and essential ministry of poems reminds us joy must be a choosing. Joy In the Belly of a Riot shows us how the bruised may accept mercy, how survivors and community can enact grace."

    —Brad Walrond, author of Every Where Alien

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