Room Swept Home

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)

Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library Association

Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us. In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in...