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Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
$17.99 Add to cart“The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Ja… [more below]
- Author: Green III, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006313554X
- Language: English
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Homegirls & Handgrenades
$17.95 Read moreWinner of the American Book Award
A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other- Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012955
- Language: English
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
$16.00 Add to cartPowerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.
- Author: Monet, Aja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467678
- Language: English
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Wounded in the House of a Friend
$16.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women’s lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Ren… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #3
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0807068276
- Language: English
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Freedom House
$17.95 Add to cartFreedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.
In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins’ formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores
- Author: Brookins, Kb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052633
- Language: English
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Chameleon Aura
$16.99 Read moreZimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose wil… [more below]
- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1449499376
- Language: English
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And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
$18.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 12 1978
- ISBN10: 0394502523
- Language: English
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The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
$19.99 Add to cartThis omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical St
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0060541342
- Language: English
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Song of My Softening
$22.95 Add to cartRecommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot
“It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the be
- Author: James, Omotara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1948579243
- Language: English
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Such Color: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read more“Tracy K. Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself.” —Vogue
Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New an- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450968
- Language: English
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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
$35.00 Read moreA genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration–another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award-winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1524732583
- Language: English
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The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
$17.95 Add to cartthe delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens.
“mimi tempestt writes like a third te
- Author: Tempestt, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0872869253
- Language: English
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Head Off & Split: Poems
$20.00 Read moreWinner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
The p
Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry- Author: Finney, Nikky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0810152169
- Language: English
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Velvet Dragonflies
$16.99 Add to cartEmbark on a gentle journey back to self with this wistful and inspiring collection of poetry from beloved poet and writer Billy Chapata.
Cushioned with love and tenderness, breakout poet Billy Chapata- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 1524876801
- Language: English
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1574232460
- Language: English
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The Essential Etheridge Knight
$18.00 Add to cartSeminal African American poet Etheridge Knight did not begin writing poetry until a robbery conviction sent him to prison in 1960. A Korean War veteran who suffered a shrapnel wound that led to drug a
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Knight, Etheridge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 05, 1986
- ISBN10: 0822953781
- Language: English
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I’m Always So Serious
$17.95 Add to cart“I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” –Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead
Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended
meditation on Blackness, on family, on … [more below]- Author: Price, Karisma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1956046046
- Language: English
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No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartVoted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with bre
- Author: Manick, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063244306
- Language: English
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Bone Language
$18.00 Add to cartJamaica Baldwin’s poetry debut, Bone Language, is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet’s survival is an engagement with a
- Author: Baldwin, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 193691994X
- Language: English
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$15.95 Read moreIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050438
- Language: English
