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Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
” Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”–The N
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977855
- Language: English
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Homie: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the s
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450100
- Language: English
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Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems
$16.95 Read moreOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night–the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets–is back in print.
The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 195114256X
- Language: English
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Thief in the Interior
$15.95 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry
2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award… [more below]- Author: Williams, Phillip B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1938584171
- Language: English
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Wild Hundreds
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category)
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0822963833
- Language: English
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Poems: Maya Angelou
$18.00 Add to cartTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-fa… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0553379852
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
$17.99 Read moreBestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III. His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 144948459X
- Language: English
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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a do… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327647
- Language: English
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Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
$16.95 Add to cartJohn Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjuga… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588470
- Language: English
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Flowers on the Moon
$16.99 Add to cartSocial media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of love, heartbreak, and what comes next. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire … [more below]
- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1524860417
- Language: English
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The Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartThe Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1556594860
- Language: English
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
$35.00 Add to cartA breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander.
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0316417521
- Language: English
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from o- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133187
- Language: English
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The Crown Ain’t Worth Much
$16.00 Add to cart2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Poetry Honorable Mention
2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Grand Prize Short List
2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award NomineeThe Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib’s firs… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry #2
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1943735042
- Language: English
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Selected Poems American Classics Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement.” — New York Times
In celebration of t
- Series: HarperCollins American Classics #8
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063484234
- Language: English
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Poems: Maya Angelou
$18.00 Add to cartTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-fa… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0553379852
- Language: English
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Things I Didn’t Do with This Body
$18.00 Read moreTold in six parts, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms–ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-p… [more below]
- Author: Gunn, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596588
- Language: English
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No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
$29.95 Read moreA history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse
Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American lite
- Author: Gilmore, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164712655X
- Language: English
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Universal Corner: Poems
$19.00 Read moreDancing at the intersection of melody and humanity, Mitchell L. H. Douglas’ Universal Corner imagines what beat moves the world. Douglas’ poetry rides the skip and pop of vinyl, radio waves, and mixta
- Author: Douglas, Mitchell L. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0892556331
- Language: English
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A Poem for Evangeline & Other Songs
$25.00 Add to cartWith this, his 17th book and his 4th poetry collection, Kevin Powell further cements his legacy as one of the most celebrated political, cultural, literary, and hip-hop voices in America. A Poem for E
- Author: Powell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218824440
- Language: English
