American - African American & Black
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Strange Beach: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartA debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform–across oceans and within relationships–told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens
At times surreal, at times philosophica- Author: Olayiwola, Oluwaseun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1593767765
- Language: English
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I’ll Cry If I Want to: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA poignant journey through womanhood, motherhood, mental health, and identity, with a unique lens on the biracial experience, offering solace and understanding amidst life’s complexities.
I’ll Cry If- Author: Franco, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 177168397X
- Language: English
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Back to Alabama
$16.00 Add to cartBack to Alabama is a poignant poetry collection exploring the complexities of Black American identity, family, cultural heritage, womanhood, and religious faith. As Valerie A. Smith writes, “The Blues
- Author: Smith, Valerie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1951979648
- Language: English
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Greater Ghost
$17.95 Add to cartIn Christian Collier’s debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move b… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Collier, Christian J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1961897105
- Language: English
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We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep
$18.00 Add to cartWe Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep, is a chapbook collection that begins the long journey of exploring all who sing blackly beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This chapbook collection begins to unearth and re
- Author: Kneeland, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1734958944
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$26.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050934
- Language: English
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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth co- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116967
- Language: English
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Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems
$17.00 Add to cartAll of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition
During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as we- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0807084867
- Language: English
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Trophic Cascade
$14.95 Add to cartPoems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power
Winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry (2018)
In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positio
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0819578568
- Language: English
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The Space Between Men
$20.00 Add to cartA poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker
“Willis’ poetic voice is brimming with- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Willis, Mia S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 143138103
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: Poems
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Clark, Tiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668052075
- Language: English
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A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter
$21.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0062399454
- Language: English
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“One of her best collections to date.” —Essence
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature t… [more below]
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 60099534
- Language: English
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Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
$18.99 Add to cartThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life–especially Black life–in America. One of the fo
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0062562886
- Language: English
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Hurdy-Gurdy
$12.00 Add to cart“From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we w… [more below]
- Series: CSU Poetry Series #38
- Author: Seibles, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0914946986
- Language: English
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Between Spaces
$20.00 Add to cartStep into the intimate world of “Between Spaces,” Franceli Chapman-Varela’s debut poetry collection that captures the essence of life’s moments in verse. Each poem is a journey-a gentle exploration of
- Author: Chapman-Varela, Franceli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990560109
- Language: English
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Every Where Alien
$17.99 Add to cart“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space f
- Author: Walrond, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063377993
- Language: English
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Blade by Blade
$17.00 Read moreBlade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.
Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the b… [more below]
- Author: Lam?ris, Danusha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597037
- Language: English
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For There Is Always Light: A Journal
$19.99 Add to cartAn inspirational journal filled with rousing quotes from Presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman’s #1 New York Times bestsellers The Hill We Climb and Call Us What We Carry.
For there i- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0593796896
- Language: English
