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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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The Little Edges
$15.95 Read morePoems that play in the sonic texture of discourses
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2016)
The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shape
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Moten, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0819576700
- Language: English
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Glitter Road
$18.00 Add to cartA beautiful portrait of how joy is an act of resistance.
“My poems brought me to Oxford, Mississippi a.k.a. the velvet ditch: / a place you can fall into, get comfortable among confederate rebels,” w- Author: Gill O’Neil, January
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1960327011
- Language: English
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The Essential June Jordan
$18.00 Add to cartHonored as a Best Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly
This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poe- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1556596200
- Language: English
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Long Rain
$16.00 Add to cartLong Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Here, Moore expands on the rich history of African
- Author: Moore, Lenard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1732436991
- Language: English
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Shackled Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartPoetry collection by Dasan Ahanu, award-winning poet, performance artist, public speaker, community organizer, educator, scholar and emcee. An Alumni Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard’s Hip Hop Archive an
- Author: Ahanu, Dasan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1735740810
- Language: English
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Field Study
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets
“Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our intera- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539022
- Language: English
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Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
$29.95 Add to cartFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black Ame- Author: Finney, Nikky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0810142015
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & Shovel Boxed Set Volume 1-3
$52.00 Read moreBrimming with raw emotional energy, this beautiful box set collects all three volumes of r.h. Sin’s groundbreaking debut series.
Volumes I-III of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series in a sleek slipca- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 144949322X
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Because You Were Mine
$17.00 Add to cartIn their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival.
“I’ve decided I can… [more below]- Author: Janae, Brionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599123
- Language: English
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Black Like That: Poems from a Conduit
$20.99 Add to cartBlack Like That is a collection of poems about my experience as a Black woman in America. It reviews what I have learned from living in this skin, on this land, and all the ancestry that has followed
- Author: Jane, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1737936402
- Language: English
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
$29.95 Add to cartThe classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Jackson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438496559
- Language: English
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Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals
$13.99 Add to cartChallenging and opening our perceptions of the city, this collection of poems, essayistic prose fragments, and images rounds out Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s tenure as Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2021-2023.
- Author: Wellington, Darryl Lorenzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1736912887
- Language: English
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Ordinary Beast: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017
NPR’S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017
A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey
The existentia
- Author: Sealey, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062688812
- Language: English
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$25.95 Add to cartONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1574232371
- Language: English
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Commando
$10.00 Add to cartE’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laur
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Lauren, E’Mon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608469433
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Mourning
$20.00 Add to cartDreaming in Mourning is a collection of poems that invites the reader on a personal journey of grief and loss, gratitude and celebration. Benin Lemus is a poet whose words touch directly, yet tenderly
- Author: Lemus, Benin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 12 2022
- ISBN10: 195295245X
- Language: English
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Beauty: A Collection of Poems to Empower African American Females to Redefine Personal Beauty Standards
$9.99 Add to cartBeauty is a poetry collection about racial identity in America for youth and adults. The author’s personal experiences are woven into poetic narratives and verses that share thoughts, feelings, and id
- Author: Corley, Keishann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: April 08 2023
- ISBN10: 195331502X
- Language: English
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Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?
$17.95 Read moreCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust, yes, but more broadly in his understanding of the ero… [more below]
- Author: Cassells, Cyrus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1954245807
- Language: English
