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Still Water: Poems
$14.95 Add to cartAfrican American, Cabo Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway all converge in Jewelle Gomez’s exquisite collection of poetry that explores the legacies of family heritage, history, and identity. Gomez contemplates h
- Author: Gomez, Jewelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1735906530
- Language: English
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Sho
$18.00 Add to cart2022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY
Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming s
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1950268152
- Language: English
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She Lives in Music
$15.00 Add to cartShe Lives In Music is a nourishing of the soul, spirit and mind collection by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. You can’t help but tap your feet and groove with the elements in the brave but confident voice o
- Author: Sanderson, Andrea Vocab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1734561718
- Language: English
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We Hope This Reaches You in Time
$16.99 Add to cartA revised and expanded paperback edition of We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin with all-new bonus material from the authors.
Ideas, poetry, and prose from bestsellin- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1524855766
- Language: English
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
$27.00 Add to cartAffordable paperback of volume honored as one of Library Journal’s “Poetry Books of the Year.”
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592345
- Language: English
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Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
$24.99 Add to cartHere are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy.
Wright discovered the haiku in the la- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611453496
- Language: English
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Counting Descent
$24.99 Add to cartClnt Smth’s deut poetry collecton, Countng Descent, s a comng of age story that seeks to complcate our concepton of lneage and tradton.
Smth explores the cogntve dssonance that results from elongng to… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 193891211X
- Language: English
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The Weary Blues
$6.00 Read moreThe Weary Blues is Langston Hughes’s first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0486849015
- Language: English
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Ugly Music
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER, 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry!
Diannely Antigua’s debut collection Ugly Music is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss whe
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 99
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936919648
- Language: English
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In the Pockets of Small Gods
$18.00 Add to cartA beautiful exploration of grief by one of the top selling poets in America.
*A Pushcart Prize Nominee.
*National Poetry Slam Individual Champion“..[Mojgani] is a gale force talent, a twirling dervish… [more below]
- Author: Mojgani, Anis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1938912845
- Language: English
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
$45.00 Add to cartA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
Across a turbulent history, from such vital cente- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1170
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1598536664
- Language: English
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God Themselves
$14.99 Read moreLet this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.
Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous though- Author: Nichelle, Jae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1524878405
- Language: English
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Leadbelly: Poems
$14.00 Read more“It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”–Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge
A biography in poems,
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0974635332
- Language: English
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
$21.00 Read moreThe long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1880238888
- Language: English
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Nebraska: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartKwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually foun
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496221230
- Language: English
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Simulacra: Volume 111
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young Am- Series: Yale Younger Poets #111
- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 030022396X
- Language: English
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to be in & of
$12.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize, to be in & of is the debut chapbook of poet, anti-carceral advocate, and black studies scholar Joshua Aiken. Diving into the perils and contradictions
- Author: Aiken, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988255727
- Language: English
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Trouble Funk
$22.00 Add to cartThe speaker of Testify returns to divulge his parents’ love story. Set in Anderson, Indiana in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, Trouble Funk exposes ways Black Love is thwarted but never destroyed by racism… [more below]
- Author: Manuel, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1636280684
- Language: English
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Minor Notes, Volume 1
$16.00 Add to cartThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by T… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137263
- Language: English
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Lavender is a Boring Color
$18.99 Add to cartLavender is a Boring Color follows a collection of poetry woven together through the vivid experiences of the author, as he depicts his early adulthood struggles with debilitating depression, anxiety,
- Author: Black, Kevin Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1733699325
- Language: English
