Imani Tolliver

Imani Tolliver is a poet with a big heart, and inside her big heart there is a big fireplace, where lines of poetry crackle like logs and the glow from the fireplace is the kind of light that will sustain you long after you have gotten up and walked away. In this day and age, we have tanning salons, and implants for every which body part, well Tolliver's poetry feeds that endangered species: the soul. 
Jeffrey McDaniel,author of The Splinter Factory, Alibi School, and The Forgiveness Parade 



What strikes me most about Imani Tolliver's work is the honesty, a naked soul dressed in the clothing of well crafted imagery and story. Her voice pierces clearly through the field of mediocrity to an exalted place under the sun.
Kamau Daa'ood, author of The Language of Saxphones: Selected Poems, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The World Stage Performance Gallery



Imani's poems are anthems to family, love and freedom. Tolliver offers windows and mirrors in her poetry--open vision and multifaceted interior reflection. If you can go as deep as she does in this work, you'll experience a profoundly lyrical voice and a wise one, too.
Eloise Klein Healy, author of Passing and the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles



With distilled language purified though heartache and stinging beauty, these poems are double-edged swords disguised as literature.  Imani Tolliver has come to cut us deep.
Michael Datcher, bestselling author of Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story



Imani Tolliver's work sings in the poetry of life.  It is always familiar, always touching; it helps us to see our humanity and reach further toward spirit.
Jenoyne Adams, bestselling author of Resurrecting Mingus and Selah's Bed