American - African American & Black
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It’s Important I Remember: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAn 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- Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149648
- 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 Add to cartThings 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
$27.00 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
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America, a Love Story
$16.95 Read moreNew poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy’s powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 081950226X
- Language: English
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Paces the Cage
$18.95 Add to cartInterspersed with ambient sound, lighting and stage directions, Henry-Smith’s poems read as an improvised performance fusing the literal and metaphorical
S*an D. Henry-Smith’s second full-length book o
- Author: Henry-Smith, Sean D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991298865
- Language: English
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Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today’s Citizens of America: An Erasure
$21.95 Add to cartA revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense–calling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans
In his famous cry for inh- Author: Smith, Crystal Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807023388
- Language: English
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She Outgrew the Wound
$18.99 Add to cartA heartfelt return to form for veteran poet r.h. Sin, She Outgrew the Wound speaks softly to the resiliency of growth, maturity, and life-altering self-love.
For over 10 years, poet r.h. Sin has prov- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881608460
- Language: English
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Obsidian Sun: A Poetry Compilation of Fiery Blackness
$25.00 Add to cartObsidian Sun is Black brilliance, burden, beauty, and bravery captured in verse. These poems confront the ways society distorts Blackness – how our light is too often dimmed by a skewed lens – yet the
- Author: Jones, Tyler Auston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798988846376
- Language: English
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Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
$28.99 Read moreRevered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraquib) poems, Adrian Matejka has been a mainstay of contemporary American poetry for over two decades. Gathering hits from s
- Author: Matejka, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1324097507
- Language: English
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Promise/Threat: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAfter storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return–with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous re… [more below]
- Author: Mixon-Webster, Jonah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059380306X
- Language: English
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My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper
$19.98 Add to cart“In My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper, Alyesha Wise invites us into stories that are as raw as they are healing. Through themes of family, identity, and peace, Wise transforms pain into resilience and
- Author: Wise, Alyesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349476389
- Language: English
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To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved
$19.99 Add to cartTo All the Women I’ve Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its flame, from bestselling poet Billy Chapata.
Through poetry and prose, Billy Chapata–- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881605322
- Language: English
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926961
- Language: English
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Word Time
$15.95 Add to cart“This former San Francisco Poet Laureate and worldly cosmonaut handles politics, war, and love in equal measure as the best poets of the people do. Pablo Neruda. Bob Kaufman. June Jordan. Wanda Colema
- Author: Major, Devorah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869415
- Language: English
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Self-Driving
$17.95 Add to cart“Feminist and humanist, the vision here is both passionate and compassionate. It’s a pageturner to be sure.” –Kazim Ali
Betsy Fagin’s self-driving reimagines the American road trip through the lens of… [more below]
- Series: Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
- Author: Fagin, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1637681100
- Language: English
