American - African American & Black
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All the Possible Bodies
$21.95 Add to cartSteeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of All the Possible Bodies attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal an
- Author: Pollock, Iain Haley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944905
- Language: English
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A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: White, Artress Bethany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902621
- Language: English
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Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-P?rez, and others… [more below]
- Author: Powell, M. Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593733991
- Language: English
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The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
$30.00 Add to cart“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” –Danez Smith, The Guardian
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voic- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1668055724
- Language: English
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Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartIn her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasil
- Author: Debevec-McKenney, Sasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110678
- Language: English
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Night Watch: Poems
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal
Following on hi- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319621
- Language: English
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Blue Opening: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartBlue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins–of illness, of language, of the universe–as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site o… [more below]
- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108469
- Language: English
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The Grace of Black Mothers
$18.00 Add to cartCarried within Martheaus Perkins’ The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered
- Author: Perkins, Martheaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1949487423
- Language: English
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Resting Bitch Face: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartAn Audacious Book Club Pick
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from obje- Author: Byas, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1593767870
- Language: English
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New Moons: Phases of Healing
$18.99 Add to cartThe first installment in the Healing Verses series from prolific writer and poet r.h. Sin comes New Moons, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey o… [more below]
- Series: The Healing Verses
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600174
- Language: English
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Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, for and about One Mr. Komunyakaa
$24.95 Read moreAnthology of new work honoring the legacy of a celebrated African American poet
This carefully and generously curated mosaic of essays, letters, and poems reveals the profound impact that poet Yusef Ko
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0819501344
- Language: English
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Glory, Too: Poems
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s preeminent black poets Nikki Grimes introduces Glory, Too, a soul-stirring collection of poetry that delves into the depths of faith, hope, and
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1640609644
- Language: English
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Magic Enuff: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Gorgeous poetry” (People) that celebrates Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis.
“These a- Author: Stringfellow, Tara M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0593447433
- Language: English
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Good Monster
$17.00 Add to cartWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body’s capacity to cage and cradle sadness.
Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and traum
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596901
- Language: English
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The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartWith echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through dis
- Author: Gibson, April
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063319179
- Language: English
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A Midnight Moon
$16.99 Add to cartCan we be lonely together? Asks r.h. Sin in this heartbreaking collection of poetry.
A Midnight Moon is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author r.h. Sin. With the honesty and- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1524889245
- Language: English
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Poetry For The Soul
$19.99 Add to cartDive into the soul-stirring world of ‘Poetry for the Soul, ‘ an enchanting anthology that transcends the ordinary and captures the very essence of our shared human experience. This mesmerizing collect
- Author: J, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989477821
- Language: English
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Between Chance and Mercy
$17.99 Add to cartPoetry collection by James E Cherry. Cherry is the founder/president of The Griot Collective of West Tennessee, a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization where he conducts a monthly poetry workshop. He s
- Author: Cherry, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1733089829
- Language: English
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Black Bell
$22.00 Add to cartSweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of
- Author: Rollins, Alison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597002
- Language: English
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The Song of Everything: A Poet’s Exploration of South Carolina’s State Parks
$12.00 Add to cartJoin Glenis Redmond, Greenville’s first Poet Laureate, on a poetic journey through South Carolina’s State Parks with “The Song of Everything”. Being diagnosed with cancer and amid COVID, she visits So
- Author: Redmond, Glenis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1734584475
- Language: English
