American - African American & Black
-
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read more“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —Vogue
Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New an- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450968
- Language: English
-
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
$35.00 Read moreA genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration–another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award-winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1524732583
- Language: English
-
The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
$17.95 Read morethe delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens.
“mimi tempestt writes like a third te
- Author: Tempestt, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869253
- Language: English
-
Head Off & Split: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
The p
Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry- Author: Finney, Nikky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0810152169
- Language: English
-
Velvet Dragonflies
$16.99 Read moreEmbark on a gentle journey back to self with this wistful and inspiring collection of poetry from beloved poet and writer Billy Chapata.
Cushioned with love and tenderness, breakout poet Billy Chapata- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 1524876801
- Language: English
-
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1574232460
- Language: English
-
The Essential Etheridge Knight
$18.00 Add to cartSeminal African American poet Etheridge Knight did not begin writing poetry until a robbery conviction sent him to prison in 1960. A Korean War veteran who suffered a shrapnel wound that led to drug a
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Knight, Etheridge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 05, 1986
- ISBN10: 0822953781
- Language: English
-
I’m Always So Serious
$17.95 Add to cart“I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” –Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead
Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended
meditation on Blackness, on family, on … [more below]- Author: Price, Karisma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1956046046
- Language: English
-
No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartVoted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with bre
- Author: Manick, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063244306
- Language: English
-
Bone Language
$18.00 Add to cartJamaica Baldwin’s poetry debut, Bone Language, is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet’s survival is an engagement with a
- Author: Baldwin, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 193691994X
- Language: English
-
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050438
- Language: English
-
The Shared World: Poems
$28.00 Read moreThe latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions bet
- Author: Francis, Vievee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0810145197
- Language: English
-
Trace Evidence: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartIn Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity
- Author: Shanahan, Charif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 195353466X
- Language: English
-
Life on Mars
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* Poet Laureate of the United States *
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publ- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1555975844
- Language: English
-
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I
$17.99 Add to cartCompletely revised and expanded brand-new edition of Volume I, the first book in the Whiskey poetry trilogy!
Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healt- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 2, 2017
- ISBN10: 1449488064
- Language: English
-
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
$16.00 Add to cartA collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou
These four poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” “Weekend Glory,” and “Our Grandmothers,” are among the most remembered and- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17, 1995
- ISBN10: 0679439242
- Language: English
-
A Good Cry
$18.99 Add to cartThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issue
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062399462
- Language: English
-
I Love My People
$15.99 Add to cartSay it with her now: “I love my people!”
In rhythmic prowess, Kim Singleton recounts the beauty and legacy of Black people who are “too many to name, from the corners of obscurity, to the highest of f
- Author: Singleton, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486711
- Language: English
-
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA polyphonic new entry in Multiverse–a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, Th… [more below]
- Series: Multiverse
- Author: Ellis, Jjjjjerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550127
- Language: English
-
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
$26.00 Add to cartTupac Shakur’s most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.
His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded atte- Author: Shakur, Tupac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671028448
- Language: English
