American - African American & Black
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We Alive, Beloved: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartNYT Bestselling Author Frederick Joseph explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Blac… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1955905649
- Language: English
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
$18.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0062995294
- Language: English
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Hood Vacations
$16.95 Add to cartMichal ” MJ” Jones’ debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling – an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional na… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570449
- Language: English
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Strange Flowers
$18.00 Add to cartBryan Byrdlong’s debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically
- Author: Byrdlong, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 194630302X
- Language: English
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The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things
$26.00 Add to cartNikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection–a landmark of American literature–speaks to the fury of our current political moment while reflecting on the tragedies and triumphs of her early life.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447525
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 132410516X
- Language: English
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The Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
$18.00 Add to cartI want to know what you know about my people
I said to the caretaker’s granddaughter.
I want you to tell me something about them.
The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems re
- Author: Green, Salaam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990220874
- Language: English
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Savings Time: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartThe Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing.
what will come of what you leave behind?
do you
remember that time
you survi- Author: Marsh, Roya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0374615799
- Language: English
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Doggerel: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartReginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic–but equally rich–lens: dogs.
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089253
- Language: English
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Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story
$17.00 Add to cartA Haitian-born, Boston-based poet explores the personal and political stories of the Haitians who were part of Congo’s 1960s decolonization movement
Between 1960 and 1975, thousands of Haitian profess- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Georges, Danielle Legros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020486
- Language: English
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Deeper the Tropics
$17.95 Read moreDeeper the Tropics navigates the mythology of the self via the masked figure. These poems present the self as an accumulation of faces–or masks–over which we have only partial control. Yet it’s in t… [more below]
- Author: Broaddus, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589090
- Language: English
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The Pond that Ripples
$13.95 Add to cartThe Pond That Ripples represents a person who experiences disruptions and changes in life. Ripples on a pond, on an otherwise smooth surface, may be perceived as calming or disturbing, depending on th
- Author: Summers, Tammi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416461
- Language: English
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Owed
$27.00 Add to cart“Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett’s first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an “arresting debut” that was “abounding in tenderness and rich with character,” with a “virtuosic kind of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0143133853
- Language: English
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Somebody Else Sold the World
$27.00 Add to cartA resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize
The poems in Adrian Matejka’s newest and fifth collect- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Matejka, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136445
- Language: English
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Paper Girl and the Knives That Made Her
$16.99 Read more“I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn.”
We’ve all been paper before. We’ve all been fragile. Leaflike and gently blowing, enough to create stor- Author: Cofer, Ari B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1771682647
- Language: English
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Unfold: Poetry + Prose
$16.99 Read moreFrom the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of… [more below]
- Author: Cofer, Ari B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1771682841
- Language: English
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Negative Money
$14.95 Add to cartFinalist for the New England Book Award
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and em- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767536
- Language: English
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Concentrate: Poems
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins–a fifteen-- Author: Taylor, Courtney Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452103
- Language: English
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Red Wilderness
$17.95 Read moreIn defiance of life’s intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what h… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Coleman, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961897245
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
$30.00 Add to cart“If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified — and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts.” — The Washington Post
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0688140475
- Language: English
