American - African American & Black
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We (the People of the United States)
$20.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning poet praised for his “rhapsodic, rigorous” work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought
We (The People of The United S- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0143138642
- Language: English
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Yeet!
$19.95 Read moreAfrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom.
Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford’s YEET! envisions the Black- Author: Crawford, Jason B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 25 2025
- ISBN10: 163243170X
- Language: English
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A Love Tap
$16.95 Add to cartBernardo Wade’s A Love Tap–introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay–reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and p
- Author: Wade, Bernardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1940596580
- Language: English
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Charles Coe: New and Selected Works
$14.95 Add to cart“Coe writes like a man with polished wings, flying above it all while watching the high and low tides of life.” – E. Ethelbert Miller, co-editor, Poet Lore magazine
Charles Coe’s latest collection
- Author: Coe, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1948585979
- Language: English
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Sparse Black Whimsy 2
$20.00 Add to cartThe second installment of the acclaimed Sparse Black Whimsy series. One review says “You’re a funny nigga lmaooo.” Another flaunts, “I love the way you play with language, disregard it, revive it, evo
- Series: Sparse Black Whimsy #2
- Author: Williams, Marcus Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218514976
- Language: English
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The Quiet After: Poems of Healing Silence
$18.99 Add to cartThe third and final installment in the Healing Verses series finds poet r.h. Sin in The Quiet After–the hard-earned peace from healing your own heart.
Across the volumes of The Healing Verses, r.h.- Series: The Healing Verses
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600198
- Language: English
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Proprioception: Poems Volume 8
$21.95 Add to cartProprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weig
- Series: The Sabine Literature
- Author: Arceneaux, C. Prudence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: March 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1680034022
- Language: English
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Maybe the Saddest Thing
$13.99 Add to cart“These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems–self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love
- Author: Wicker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0062191012
- Language: English
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Silencer
$15.99 Add to cart“Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless-Wicker’s mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman.”
–Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and… [more below]- Author: Wicker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 132871554X
- Language: English
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Small Lives: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartPoetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson’s work is inspired by Afro-futurism.
small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis- Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
- Author: Jackson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368425
- Language: English
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Unruly
$15.99 Add to cartA powerful fusion of poetry, memoir, and history, this groundbreaking collection makes visible the stories of Black women’s experiences with medical racism and bodily autonomy. From a TEDx speaker, co
- Author: Cooper, Antoinette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989117079
- Language: English
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Cord Swell: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and
- Author: Crowell, Brittny Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111151
- Language: English
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Travesty Generator
$15.00 Add to cartLike a ghost in the machine, Travesty Generator remixes programming codes and turns them to ruminate on the intersections of race and gender. Rhythmic, hypnotic, and percussive, the poems are iterativ
- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1934819840
- Language: English
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Natural History: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA unique work of science and poetry, winner of the Cave Canem Prize, selected by Natasha Trethewey
A research biologist most recently at the Museum f?r Naturkunde in Berlin, Brandon Kilbourne illumina- Author: Kilbourne, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453673
- Language: English
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Bloodmercy
$17.00 Add to cartSelected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters.
“Violence is a failure of commu
- Author: Jones, I. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987585238
- Language: English
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An Optimism: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartHere is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life–an ordinary life that one could not have imagined–and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present–in which Bl… [more below]
- Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556218
- Language: English
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Exile Is Home
$21.95 Add to cartThroughout the poems in Exile Is Home, Elvis Alves examines the drudgery of work and the draw of the creative mind. He juxtaposes these aspects in the attempt to reveal the freedom that is inherent in
- Author: Alves, Elvis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1960329960
- Language: English
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Grime
$15.95 Add to cartOne of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!
From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist len
- Series: City Lights Spotlight #25
- Author: Matthews, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 087286913X
- Language: English
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Death of the First Idea: Poems
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Whiting Award-winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic about gen… [more below]
- Author: Laurentiis, Rickey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593802705
- Language: English
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Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
$27.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandri… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1524732605
- Language: English
