In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked

A collection of poems offers glimpses into the life and thoughts of an African American prostitute in pre-World War I New Orleans.

An expanded and revised edition of the famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pret

This volume;examines contemporary African-American poets from the well-known writers of the late 20th century to the newly established and emerging voices of to

North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an important new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like th