American - African American & Black
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Black Like That: Poems from a Conduit
$20.99 Add to cartBlack Like That is a collection of poems about my experience as a Black woman in America. It reviews what I have learned from living in this skin, on this land, and all the ancestry that has followed
- Author: Jane, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1737936402
- Language: English
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
$29.95 Add to cartThe classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Jackson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1438496559
- Language: English
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Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals
$13.99 Add to cartChallenging and opening our perceptions of the city, this collection of poems, essayistic prose fragments, and images rounds out Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s tenure as Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2021-2023.
- Author: Wellington, Darryl Lorenzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1736912887
- Language: English
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Ordinary Beast: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017
NPR’S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017
A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey
The existentia
- Author: Sealey, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062688812
- Language: English
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$25.95 Add to cartONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1574232371
- Language: English
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Commando
$10.00 Add to cartE’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laur
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Lauren, E’Mon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1608469433
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Mourning
$20.00 Add to cartDreaming in Mourning is a collection of poems that invites the reader on a personal journey of grief and loss, gratitude and celebration. Benin Lemus is a poet whose words touch directly, yet tenderly
- Author: Lemus, Benin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 12 2022
- ISBN10: 195295245X
- Language: English
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Beauty: A Collection of Poems to Empower African American Females to Redefine Personal Beauty Standards
$9.99 Add to cartBeauty is a poetry collection about racial identity in America for youth and adults. The author’s personal experiences are woven into poetic narratives and verses that share thoughts, feelings, and id
- Author: Corley, Keishann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: April 08 2023
- ISBN10: 195331502X
- Language: English
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Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?
$17.95 Read moreCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust, yes, but more broadly in his understanding of the ero… [more below]
- Author: Cassells, Cyrus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1954245807
- Language: English
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Vice: New and Selected Poems
$22.99 Add to cartCollected here are poems from Ai’s previous five books–Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed–along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues co… [more below]
- Author: Ai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320189
- Language: English
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Far from New York State
$18.95 Add to cartMatthew Johnson’s second poetry volume constructs a space where the rural communities of Upstate, the suburban living of the Lower Hudson Valley, and the metropolitan landscapes of the City are woven
- Author: Johnson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450952
- Language: English
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How to Be Drawn
$27.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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Space2inspire: The Art of Inspiration
$39.99 Add to cartThis book follows the creative journey of Dr. Sian Proctor to orbit with the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission through her art and poetry. It’s a whimsical poetic tale of her becoming the first black female
- Author: Proctor, Sian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1733765425
- Language: English
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All the Blood Involved in Love
$17.00 Read moreMaya Marshall is a formidable emerging poet. With this debut, she joins a vital literary heritage of Black poets whose stewardship rivals their written contributions. Comparable titles: The Black Unic
- Author: Marshall, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596957
- Language: English
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The Stuff of Hollywood
$22.00 Read moreIn The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.
The Stuff of Hollywood is a meditation on the pervasiveness
- Author: Herd, Niki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596960
- Language: English
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we was bois together
$12.00 Add to cartwe was bois together examines identities and belonging through the lenses of Blackness, queerness, and gender non-conforming narratives. The poems act as an homage and an ode to traversing these ident
- Author: Smoot, Kelsey L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: June 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1957840293
- Language: English
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Glance: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGlance, the second collection of poetry by Chanda Feldman, explores the experiences of a Black and white and Jewish American family that moves abroad to find respite from contemporary racial violence.
- Author: Feldman, Chanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182478
- Language: English
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I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood
$18.00 Add to cartFor poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has le… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Clark, Tiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0822965585
- Language: English
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Unsteady
$14.95 Add to cartUNSTEADY, Monique Ferrell’s first full-length collection of poetry and dramatic monologues, is an examination of a life in progress. The verse in this collection delves deeply into such themes as race… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1935520539
- Language: English
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Stop Lying: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartStop Lying is Aaron Smith’s most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of Smith’s mother and how the poet, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed a… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Smith, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967049
- Language: English
