American - African American & Black
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Small Lives: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartPoetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson’s work is inspired by Afro-futurism.
small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis- Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
- Author: Jackson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368425
- Language: English
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Unruly
$15.99 Add to cartA powerful fusion of poetry, memoir, and history, this groundbreaking collection makes visible the stories of Black women’s experiences with medical racism and bodily autonomy. From a TEDx speaker, co
- Author: Cooper, Antoinette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989117079
- Language: English
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Cord Swell: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and
- Author: Crowell, Brittny Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111151
- Language: English
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Travesty Generator
$15.00 Add to cartLike a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterativ
- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1934819840
- Language: English
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Natural History: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA unique work of science and poetry, winner of the Cave Canem Prize, selected by Natasha Trethewey
A research biologist most recently at the Museum f?r Naturkunde in Berlin, Brandon Kilbourne illumina- Author: Kilbourne, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453673
- Language: English
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Bloodmercy
$17.00 Add to cartSelected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters.
“Violence is a failure of commu
- Author: Jones, I. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987585238
- Language: English
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An Optimism: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartHere is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life–an ordinary life that one could not have imagined–and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present–in which Bl… [more below]
- Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556218
- Language: English
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Exile Is Home
$21.95 Add to cartThroughout the poems in Exile Is Home, Elvis Alves examines the drudgery of work and the draw of the creative mind. He juxtaposes these aspects in the attempt to reveal the freedom that is inherent in
- Author: Alves, Elvis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1960329960
- Language: English
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Grime
$15.95 Add to cartOne of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!
From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist len
- Series: City Lights Spotlight #25
- Author: Matthews, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 087286913X
- Language: English
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Death of the First Idea: Poems
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Whiting Award-winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic about gen… [more below]
- Author: Laurentiis, Rickey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593802705
- Language: English
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Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
$27.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandri… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1524732605
- Language: English
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Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive
$19.95 Add to cartThe Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive is a vibrant, … [more below]
- Author: Cagney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571623
- Language: English
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Lost Cities: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartBrimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time–ways of looking and l… [more below]
- Author: Robin, Valencia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556153
- Language: English
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Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
$17.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine–the second book in a creat
- Author: Fant, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447894
- Language: English
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Vintage Hughes
$19.00 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerfu… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034027
- Language: English
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Serenity’s Song: The Melody of Healing
$18.99 Add to cartThe second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity’s Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healin… [more below]
- Series: The Healing Verses
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600181
- Language: English
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Games for Children
$20.00 Add to cart“A restless collection of incredible breadth, whose ability to meld applied science, faith, history, racial myth, and personal archive gives us poems whose power is unmistakable. A game-changing book.
- Author: Wilson, Keith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551271
- Language: English
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Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartNursery Rhymes in Black is a poetic recollection of race, roots, culture, and identity. Paying homage to the memory and work of elders and ancestors, Latorial Faison remembers her own matriarch, mothe… [more below]
- Series: Permafrost Prize
- Author: Faison, Latorial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1646427270
- Language: English
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The Natural Order of Things: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations
What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come- Author: Kelly, Donika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453592
- Language: English
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Green of All Heads
$19.00 Add to cartThe Whiting Award-winning poet returns.
Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood,
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145711
- Language: English
