Political & Protest

  • […]: Poems

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    Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry

    Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize

    A Reading the West Book Award Finalist

    From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and esse[more below]

    • Author: Joudah, Fady
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 163955128X
    • Language: English
  • The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

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    An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps

    A tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, this ant

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    • Author: Saito, Brynn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798888903711
    • Language: English
  • Todos Somos Sagrados/All Are Sacred

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    “Rey M. Rodr?guez has written a love letter to all of us women, sisters, mothers. His is an important voice that needs to be heard. His words, full of poetry and heart, will touch your soul and make y

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    • Author: Rodríguez, Rey M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: May 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798295790553
    • Language: English
  • The Country in the Mirror: Poems of Protest & Witness

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    Edited by Sharon Darrow and including nearly ninety poets from across the United States and Canada, The Country in the Mirror: Poems of Protest & Witness is an urgent anthology of poems written in res

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    • Author: Darrow, Sharon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 242
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 1578692210
    • Language: English
  • Scrap Book

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    Scrap Book, the debut collection from Nick Martino, is a lyric, hybrid exploration of his father’s prison sentence and its aftermath–an inherited history marked by silence, fracture, shame, and addic

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  • Cantares

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    Poems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares Mexicanos

    Cantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Garcia, Edgar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 07 2026
    • ISBN10: 0819502383
    • Language: English
  • Water to Water: Gaza Renga

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    A poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza.

    In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Sh

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    • Author: Hacker, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 141
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1623715822
    • Language: English
  • Veer

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    In Veer, award-winning poet Cole Swensen examines the everyday world through a lens that shifts perception, offering surprising, sometimes zany perspectives on things we often take for granted. These

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    • Series: Jean Valentine
    • Author: Swensen, Cole
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: May 12 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949944786
    • Language: English
  • Transitions: New and Selected Sonnets

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    New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin)

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    • Author: Hacker, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 1571315721
    • Language: English
  • Reverse Requiem

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    Whiting Award-winning poet Ina Cari?o’s sophomore collection, Reverse Requiem, explores mental health and wellness, ancestry and lineage, and the enduring complexities of human connection. In a world

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    • Author: Cariño, Ina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: April 14 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949944778
    • Language: English
  • I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side

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    J Brooke’s I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side begins in a rich and specific New York City childhood full of binaries, then catapults into a fully realized, self-aware adulthood… [more below]

    • Author: Brooke, J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 02 2026
    • ISBN10: 194906543X
    • Language: English
  • With No Hat

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    Celebrating his 70th year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energized and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles’ life and career–includin

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    • Author: Seibles, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798990767843
    • Language: English
  • It’s Important I Remember: Poems

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    An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America

    “History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet’s ear for echo and

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    • Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 244
    • Publish Date: February 15 2026
    • ISBN10: 0810149648
    • Language: English
  • Lady No

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    From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.

    “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form–and traditionall

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    • Author: Hyesoon, Kim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 14 2026
    • ISBN10: 0063446685
    • Language: English
  • Printer’s Fist: Poems

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    Melissa Range’s Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement–its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures–

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  • Bug: A Play

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    Tracy Letts’s tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a thought-provoking psycho-thriller that mixes terror and laughter at a fever pitch.

    This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel roo

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    • Author: Letts, Tracy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 95
    • Publish Date: June 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 0810123487
    • Language: English
  • The Witch Doesn’t Drown in This One

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    In this one, the witch doesn’t burn or die or drown. In this one, she rages.

    In the witch doesn’t drown in this one, celebrated poetess amanda lovelace revisits the titular voice behind her 2018 bests

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    • Series: Women Are Some Kind of Magic
    • Author: Lovelace, Amanda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1524890049
    • Language: English
  • The Palace

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    From Puerto Rico to mythological forests, The Palace charts a family’s journey to build a life and home in a world that is often violent and rife with economic instability, as the speaker must also co

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    • Author: Cerpa, Andrés
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: January 20 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949944875
    • Language: English
  • Letters of the Alphabet Go to War

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    A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk’s remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, dur… [more below]

    • Author: Panasiuk, Lesyk
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 20 2026
    • ISBN10: 1956046674
    • Language: English
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