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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
$34.95 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartDancing 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
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Once
$10.99 Add to cartThis first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book; Hb 337
- Author: Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 1976
- ISBN10: 0156687453
- Language: English
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition: 1968-1998
$20.00 Add to cart- Series: HarperCollins American Classics #3
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063482258
- Language: English
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American Happiness: New Poems
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Balcones Poetry Prize
American Happiness is an eclectic collection of verse from a bold poet of everyday life, Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Ironically titled, the work addresses everything- Author: Trimble, Jacqueline Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385825
- Language: English
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With No Hat
$17.00 Add to cartCelebrating his 70th year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energized and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles’ life and career–includin
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798990767843
- Language: English
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Antediluvian: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartAntediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of a… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0822967677
- Language: English
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It’s Important I Remember: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAn incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America
“History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet’s ear for echo and- Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149648
- Language: English
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At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010
$21.00 Add to cartAt the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1960145983
- Language: English
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In the Blood: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.
I am no mystic. I know
nothing rises that doesn’t
know how to already.
In my ears, only the- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374608865
- Language: English
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The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures
$20.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor.
“How big is a home?”
“What is space without reaching?”
“Yo
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1639550364
- Language: English
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Above Ground
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling poetry collection from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner How the Word Is Passed.
“A joyful embrace and legacy of bright l- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0316702579
- Language: English
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Printer’s Fist: Poems
$23.95 Add to cartMelissa Range’s Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement–its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures–
- Series: Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
- Author: Range, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0826500099
- Language: English
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Twice Blessed: Yard Sale Stories
$22.00 Add to cartThings can be much more than things.
Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car–and what happens when those objects change hands? In the buyin
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893480436
- Language: English
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Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Cornelius Eady, one of America’s most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet’s universe and highlights the range of his considerable t… [more below]
- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0399155112
- Language: English
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My God’s Been Silent
$20.00 Add to cartMy God’s Been Silent is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the aftermath of loss and disillusionment, these poems are elegies and incanta
- Author: Phelps, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896920854
- Language: English
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America, a Love Story
$16.95 Add to cartNew poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy’s powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 081950226X
- Language: English
