American - African American & Black

  • Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems

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    Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
    Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

    ” Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”–The N

    • Author: Smith, Danez
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 05, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1555977855
    • Language: English
  • Homie: Poems

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    FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
    FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY

    Danez Smith is our president

    Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the s

    • Author: Smith, Danez
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 21, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1644450100
    • Language: English
  • Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems

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    Other 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

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    • Author: Parker, Morgan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: July 13 2021
    • ISBN10: 195114256X
    • Language: English
  • Thief in the Interior

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    Recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry
    2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
    Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
    2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award
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    • Author: Williams, Phillip B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: January 12 2016
    • ISBN10: 1938584171
    • Language: English
  • Wild Hundreds

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    Winner, 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
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    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Marshall, Nate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 09 2015
    • ISBN10: 0822963833
    • Language: English
  • Poems: Maya Angelou

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    Tenderly, 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
  • Whiskey Words & a Shovel III

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    Bestselling 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
  • M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems

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    In 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
  • Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

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    John 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
  • Flowers on the Moon

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    Social 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
  • The Tradition

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    The 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
  • This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

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    A 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
  • American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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    Finalist 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

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    • Series: Penguin Poets
    • Author: Hayes, Terrance
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 19 2018
    • ISBN10: 0143133187
    • Language: English
  • The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

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    2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Poetry Honorable Mention
    2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Grand Prize Short List
    2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee

    The 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
  • A Poem for Evangeline & Other Songs

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    With this, his 17th book and his 4th poetry collection, Kevin Powell further cements his legacy as one of the most celebrated political, cultural, literary, and hip-hop voices in America. A Poem for E

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    • Author: Powell, Kevin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 01 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798218824440
    • Language: English
  • By: Walker

    Once

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    This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965… [more below]

    • Series: Harvest Book; Hb 337
    • Author: Walker
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 15 1976
    • ISBN10: 0156687453
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition: 1968-1998

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  • American Happiness: New Poems

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    Winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize

    American Happiness is an eclectic collection of verse from a bold poet of everyday life, Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Ironically titled, the work addresses everything

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    • Author: Trimble, Jacqueline Allen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: December 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1588385825
    • 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
  • Antediluvian: Poems

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    Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of a… [more below]

    • Series: Pitt Poetry
    • Author: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 0822967677
    • Language: English
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