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Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
” Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”–The N
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977855
- Language: English
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Homie: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the s
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450100
- Language: English
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Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems
$16.95 Read moreOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night–the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets–is back in print.
The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 195114256X
- Language: English
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Wild Hundreds
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category)
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0822963833
- Language: English
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Poems: Maya Angelou
$18.00 Read moreTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-fa… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0553379852
- Language: English
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
$17.99 Read moreBestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III. His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 144948459X
- Language: English
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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a do… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327647
- Language: English
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Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
$16.95 Add to cartJohn Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjuga… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Murillo, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1945588470
- Language: English
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Flowers on the Moon
$16.99 Add to cartSocial media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of love, heartbreak, and what comes next. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire … [more below]
- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1524860417
- Language: English
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The Tradition
$17.00 Add to cartThe Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.
- Author: Brown, Jericho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1556594860
- Language: English
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
$35.00 Add to cartA breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander.
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0316417521
- Language: English
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
$19.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from o- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133187
- Language: English
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The Crown Ain’t Worth Much
$16.00 Add to cart2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Poetry Honorable Mention
2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Grand Prize Short List
2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award NomineeThe Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib’s firs… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry #2
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1943735042
- Language: English
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In the Blood: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.
I am no mystic. I know
nothing rises that doesn’t
know how to already.
In my ears, only the- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0374608865
- Language: English
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The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures
$20.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor.
“How big is a home?”
“What is space without reaching?”
“Yo
- Author: Hill, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1639550364
- Language: English
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Above Ground
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling poetry collection from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner How the Word Is Passed.
“A joyful embrace and legacy of bright l- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0316702579
- Language: English
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Printer’s Fist: Poems
$23.95 Read moreMelissa 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–
- Series: Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
- Author: Range, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0826500099
- Language: English
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Twice Blessed: Yard Sale Stories
$22.00 Read moreThings can be much more than things.
Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car–and what happens when those objects change hands? In the buyin
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893480436
- Language: English
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Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems
$24.00 Add to cartFrom Cornelius Eady, one of America’s most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet’s universe and highlights the range of his considerable t… [more below]
- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0399155112
- Language: English
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My God’s Been Silent
$20.00 Add to cartMy God’s Been Silent is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the aftermath of loss and disillusionment, these poems are elegies and incanta
- Author: Phelps, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896920854
- Language: English
