
Cheryl Clarke
Author · 8 books
Cheryl L. Clarke is a lesbian poet, essayist, educator and a Black feminist community activist: she lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Hobart, New York. With her life partner, Barbara Balliet, she is co-owner of Bleinheim Hill Books, a used and rare bookstore in Hobart.
Series
Books

Experimental Love
Poetry
1993

The Days of Good Looks
The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005
2005

Mouths of Rain
An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
2021

Living as a Lesbian
1986

By My Precise Haircut
2016

Humid Pitch
Narrative Poetry
1989

Archive of Style
New and Selected Poems
2024

Narratives
Poems in the Tradition of Black Women
1983