American - African American & Black
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In the Pockets of Small Gods
$18.00 Add to cartA beautiful exploration of grief by one of the top selling poets in America.
*A Pushcart Prize Nominee.
*National Poetry Slam Individual Champion“..[Mojgani] is a gale force talent, a twirling dervish… [more below]
- Author: Mojgani, Anis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1938912845
- Language: English
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
$45.00 Add to cartA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
Across a turbulent history, from such vital cente- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1598536664
- Language: English
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God Themselves
$14.99 Read moreLet this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.
Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous though- Author: Nichelle, Jae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1524878405
- Language: English
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Leadbelly: Poems
$14.00 Add to cart“It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”–Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge
A biography in poems,
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0974635332
- Language: English
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
$21.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1880238888
- Language: English
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Nebraska: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartKwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually foun
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496221230
- Language: English
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Simulacra: Volume 111
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young Am- Series: Yale Younger Poets #111
- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 030022396X
- Language: English
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to be in & of
$12.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize, to be in & of is the debut chapbook of poet, anti-carceral advocate, and black studies scholar Joshua Aiken. Diving into the perils and contradictions
- Author: Aiken, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988255727
- Language: English
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Trouble Funk
$22.00 Add to cartThe speaker of Testify returns to divulge his parents’ love story. Set in Anderson, Indiana in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, Trouble Funk exposes ways Black Love is thwarted but never destroyed by racism… [more below]
- Author: Manuel, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1636280684
- Language: English
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Minor Notes, Volume 1
$16.00 Add to cartThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by T… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137263
- Language: English
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Lavender is a Boring Color
$18.99 Add to cartLavender is a Boring Color follows a collection of poetry woven together through the vivid experiences of the author, as he depicts his early adulthood struggles with debilitating depression, anxiety,
- Author: Black, Kevin Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1733699325
- Language: English
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Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
$17.99 Add to cart“The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Ja… [more below]
- Author: Green III, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006313554X
- Language: English
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Homegirls & Handgrenades
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the American Book Award
A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other- Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012955
- Language: English
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
$16.00 Add to cartPowerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.
- Author: Monet, Aja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467678
- Language: English
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Wounded in the House of a Friend
$16.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women’s lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Ren… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #3
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0807068276
- Language: English
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Freedom House
$17.95 Add to cartFreedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.
In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins’ formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores
- Author: Brookins, Kb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052633
- Language: English
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Chameleon Aura
$16.99 Read moreZimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose wil… [more below]
- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1449499376
- Language: English
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And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
$19.00 Read moreMaya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 12 1978
- ISBN10: 0394502523
- Language: English
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The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
$19.99 Add to cartThis omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical St
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0060541342
- Language: English
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Song of My Softening
$22.95 Add to cartRecommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot
“It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the be
- Author: James, Omotara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1948579243
- Language: English
