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Maybe the Saddest Thing
$13.99 Add to cart“These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems–self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love
- Author: Wicker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0062191012
- Language: English
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How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
$16.95 Read moreOne is never sure who the monsters are in these poems, only that the narrator desperately doesn’t want to be one. In his brilliant debut collection, Hern?ndez explores grief, loss, identity, lineage, … [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Hernández, Saúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0299347842
- Language: English
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A Black Queer History of the United States
$28.95 Add to cartThe first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day
Gender and sexual expression have always been part of th- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Snorton, C. Riley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0807008559
- Language: English
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Danielle McKinney: Beyond the Brushstroke
$49.95 Read moreThe first book from artist Danielle Mckinney, featuring 50 prompts for self-reflection written by her mother and a 44-page journal for the reader to respond
Danielle Mckinney is a rising star in the ar
- Author: McKinney, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1580937098
- Language: English
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Circulation
$21.00 Add to cartBeginning with its opening poem, “The Invention of Time,” Ken Autrey’s collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in Circulation address th
- Author: Autrey, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1953252958
- Language: English
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The World in Books: A Year of Reading–Wisely
$21.00 Add to cartA bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers–fr… [more below]
- Series: Great Short Books
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668015609
- Language: English
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Silencer
$15.99 Add to cart“Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless-Wicker’s mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman.”
–Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and… [more below]- Author: Wicker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 132871554X
- Language: English
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Vocation
$21.00 Add to cartVocation is a poetry collection that examines the many ways of viewing the work of a life and all that contributes to it. The book’s first section, “The Voices,” evokes the various individuals whose l
- Author: Autrey, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1962847306
- Language: English
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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
$27.99 Add to cartHow the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees.
The histories of- Author: Montgomery, Beronda L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1250335167
- Language: English
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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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Brava
$15.00 Add to cart“Let us celebrate our good fortune: that Violeta Garza’s voice is now part of a literary lineage of poetas chingonas … Brava, brimming with empathy, passion, but also bravado, soothes with the sensi
- Author: Garza, Violeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1958600113
- Language: English
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Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs
$28.00 Add to cartThe never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman.
John Berryman’s Dream Songs are arguably the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an Ame- Author: Berryman, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0374617945
- Language: English
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Queer Communion: Religion in Appalachia
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
- Author: Shoulders, Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1985902966
- Language: English
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Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877
$35.00 Add to cartThroughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressio… [more below]
- Series: Heritage of Mississippi
- Author: Nash, Jere
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1496858530
- Language: English
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Interlocutor Goddess
$17.95 Add to cart“Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being.” –aracelis girmay
Interlocutor Goddess explor
- Series: Caapp Book Prize
- Author: Reid, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1637681119
- 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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Lola the Interpreter
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an ‘I’ and a series of quasi-characters (including Lola) interpret on
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501972
- Language: English
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Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New – One for Each Day of the Year
$22.95 Add to cartFill your life with more poetry, every day of the year! Read it daily by yourself or use it to connect with friends or your book club
A book for self-discovery, and also sharing, with more than 100,00- Author: McCosker, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 158642419X
- Language: English
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Framing Fatherhood: A Celebration of Black Fathers
$34.99 Add to cartFraming Fatherhood is a stunning and moving photographic celebration of culture, fatherhood, masculinity, and blackness from some of today’s prominent Black male photographers.
In Framing Fatherhood,- Author: Cheers, Imani M. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600297
- Language: English
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Hell Yeah
$18.00 Add to cartHell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino’s highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a hell yeah between… [more below]
- Author: Toarmino, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989908974
- Language: English
