Yard Show

<p>Winner of the 90th <b>Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</b><br>Winner of the 2025 <b>PEN/Voelcker Award</b><br>Finalist for the <b>Midland Authors Award </b>(Poetry)<br>Longlisted for the 2024 <b>National Book Critics Circle Award</b><br>Named one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books by <b>the New York Public Library</b></p><p><b>Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s <i>Yard Show</i> to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States.</b><span> As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.</span></p><p><span>Harrington’s speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, using the events of the past to center and advocate for a future that celebrates pleasure and self-fulfillment within Black communities. </span></p><p><span><br></span></p>