Winners Have Yet to Be Announced A Song for Donny Hathaway poems by Ed Pavlic ISBN: 9780820330976 $19.95 Paperback University of Georgia Press This moving collection of prose poems about '70s soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life.

Blood Ties & Brown Liquor poems by Sean Hill ISBN: 9780820330938 $16.95 Paperback University of Georgia Press Sean Hill envisions a Southern African-American community from the antebellum era to the present. From pantoum to haiku, from high-toned lyricism to low-down blues, the poet uses language in all its many incarnations to speak deeply about both Southern identity and African-American community.

Bouquet of Hungers poems by Kyle Dargan ISBN: 9780820330310 $17.95 Paperback University of Georgia Press Kyle Dargan's new collection of poetry reflects his many passions as a poet, his deep engagement with what it means to work in the African-American literary tradition, and his lively voice, infused with hip-hop sensibility and idiom.

A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering poems by Dawn Lundy Martin Foreword by Carl Phillips ISBN: 9780820329918 $16.95 Paperback University of Georgia Press These poems are neither gentle nor easy. Dawn Lundy Martin's book acknowledges the difficulty but not the impossibility of utterance in trauma's wake, and it ventures into the unimaginable at many levels, from the personal to the cultural.

The Ringing Ear Black Poets Lean South A Cave Canem Anthology edited by Nikky Finney ISBN: 9780820329260 $18.95 Paperback University of Georgia Press The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience for the region's history and contradictions. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than 100 contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South.