American - African American & Black
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Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartHarryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry’s most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In Regaining Unco
- Author: Mullen, Harryette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453495
- Language: English
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End of Empire
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relations… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Davis, Marissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138472
- Language: English
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I Hope This Helps
$18.95 Add to cartBending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.
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- Author: Bashir, Samiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622722
- Language: English
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Firespitter
$29.95 Add to cartA long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez’s poetry.
Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way … [more below]
- Author: Cortez, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622323
- Language: English
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Soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartBlack poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan.
First published in 1970, soulscript is a poign… [more below]- Series: Harlem Moon Classics
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0767918460
- Language: English
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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
$30.00 Add to cartOn the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney’s visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes f
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060128
- Language: English
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Second Nature
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 23rd annual
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry PrizeChaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences,
historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that
c… [more below]- Author: Ballard, Chaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145525
- Language: English
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Second Nature
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize, Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates t
- Author: Ballard, Chaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145657
- Language: English
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The Lost Songs of Nina Simone
$21.99 Add to cartShonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible Nina Simone. With this book, Buchanan… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Shonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: May 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1960018981
- Language: English
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My Dear Wildflower
$18.99 Add to cartA love letter to his fans, My Dear Wildflower finds New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin at his best, guiding readers through the journey out of despair and back to self-worth with the honest relatabili… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1524893234
- Language: English
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Everything Endless
$14.95 Read moreA cosmic collaboration between Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Grand Master Linda D. Addison and visionary versifier Jamal Hodge, Everything Endless, sheds brilliant light in dark times. With th
- Author: Addison, Linda D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1947879839
- Language: English
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Brutal Imagination
$14.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award in Poetry
Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America. “A hymn to all- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0399147209
- Language: English
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Black California Gold
$19.95 Add to cartFor numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool’s gold–promising easy riches but freque… [more below]
- Series: Griot Project Book
- Author: Thompson, Wendy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1684485509
- Language: English
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Wash
$18.00 Read moreWASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart’s praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a devotional space for healing.
Stewart’s… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Stewart, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1638341206
- Language: English
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What Had Happened Was
$23.95 Add to cartIn her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Ther? Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and hi… [more below]
- Author: Pickens, Ther? Alyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031492
- Language: English
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Purchase: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartPurchase is for those who are grieving, who feel frightened by the world’s meanness, who are solitary. It is for those who, even in the midst of mourning, find themselves distracted from despair by th… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967294
- Language: English
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Beyond the Watershed
$18.00 Read moreA hybrid collection that explores the dual nature of water as both a destructive and healing force, mirroring the experiences of Black women and girls.
A hybrid collection of poetry and photography,- Series: Emerging Voices
- Author: Alexis, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1960327097
- Language: English
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Boy Maybe: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart51 achingly eloquent poems from a young Cave Canem fellow: W. J. Lofton’s verses explore Black queer Southern identity, grief, love, and intimacy while enduring and witnessing unfreedom in America
W.- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Lofton, W. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017825
- Language: English
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The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems
$17.95 Add to cartSteven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
In The Opposite of Cruelt
- Author: Leyva, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888346
- Language: English
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The Choreic Period: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy.
Latif Askia Ba–an acclaimed poet with Choreic Cere… [more below]
- Series: Multiverse
- Author: Ba, Latif Askia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551182
- Language: English
