Lambda Literary Award winning collection of Afrofuturist poetry.
Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom.
Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry
The Observer's Poetry Book of the Month, October 2026
jason b. crawford’s YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards the stars.
These poems ask what a free Black people would look like and how we might achieve such a thing. YEET! presents a new take on Afrofuturism and utopianism. Rather than looking to a future of technological change, it steps years ahead to show how people are happier once they are no longer owned.
Speaking to racism, gun violence, colonisation, global warming, flight, joy, friendship, and noise, YEET! is about creating new worlds free from the systems of supremacy that have plagued us.
crawford explores the lines between blood and flower, between histories, inevitabilities, and possibilities. —Lithub
...YEET! is a blistering poetic inquest into everything from gun violence to global warming. —Jade Cuttle, Observer
- Winner of Lambda Literary Awards LGBTQ+ Poetry 2026 (United States)
- Winner of Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest 2023 (United States)
- Short-listed for Only Poems Poet of the Year 2025
ISBN: 9781068204760
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