Upcoming book releases
In the shadows of the swamp, fairy tales don’t end with happily ever after. They drip with moss and blood, sung by cicadas and haunted by women who came before.
Moss Mother is a spellbinding poetry collection by Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh that reimagines beloved fairy tales through the lens of Black American Southern Gothic tradition. Here, glass coffins sink in bayous, red hoods wander company towns, and witches speak in the tongues of fireflies. Each poem carries the weight of ancestral memory and the shimmer of myth, weaving together beauty and horror, grief and resurrection.
Both incantatory and elegiac, this collection asks: what happens when the stories we inherit are laced with both danger and salvation? How do we claim survival in a world that calls our magic monstrous?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, and Lucille Clifton, for lovers of folklore, hauntings, and Southern night air, Moss Mother is a book of poems that will rock you like a hymn.
This book will be released 10/01/25.
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Spilled Milk is a personal poetry exploration from Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh, a voice both fierce and tender. These poems move through grief, identity, and survival, shifting from sharp fragments to expansive meditations.
Rooted in Black feminist tradition, Shabazz-Saleh’s work confronts white supremacy, misogyny, and capitalism, while reaching toward community, ritual, and imagination. In the haunting poem “Atlantis”, the enslaved leap into the ocean and reemerge as a new people of the water—an act of refusal, transformation, and freedom.
With language that is unflinching and vulnerable, these poems shock, teach, and heal. They carry both protest and prayer, conjuring ancestral memory as a map for the future.
For fans of Audre Lorde, Spilled Milk is a book to return to in difficult times: urgent, unyielding, and ultimately redemptive.
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