Books & Anthologies — Cortney Lamar Charleston

BOOKS

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of two full-length poetry collections. Click the cover images to learn more about each collection.

Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017)

Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021)

ANTHOLOGIES

Individual poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston have also appeared in a number of anthologies. Click on the cover images below to explore these projects and their origins.

The Beautiful: Poets Reimagine a Nation

FURIOUS FLOWER: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020)

The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry

HAND IN HAND: POETS RESPOND TO RACE (MUDDY FORD PRESS, 2017)

Lords of Misrule: 20 Years of Saturnalia Books (Saturnalia Books, 2023)

MISREPRESENTED PEOPLE: POETIC RESPONSES TO TRUMP'S AMERICA (NEW YORK QUARTERLY, 2018)

New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust

Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016)

Pushcart Prize XLIII: The Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2019)

REVISE THE PSALM: WORK CELEBRATING THE WRITING OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS (Curbside Splendor, 2017)

SOUL SISTER REVUE: A POETRY COMPILATION (JAMII PUBLISHING, 2019)

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Hatchette Book Group, 2024)