American - African American & Black
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Glory, Too: Poems
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s preeminent black poets Nikki Grimes introduces Glory, Too, a soul-stirring collection of poetry that delves into the depths of faith, hope, and
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1640609644
- Language: English
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Magic Enuff: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Gorgeous poetry” (People) that celebrates Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis.
“These a- Author: Stringfellow, Tara M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0593447433
- Language: English
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Good Monster
$17.00 Add to cartWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body’s capacity to cage and cradle sadness.
Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and traum
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596901
- Language: English
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The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartWith echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through dis
- Author: Gibson, April
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063319179
- Language: English
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A Midnight Moon
$16.99 Add to cartCan we be lonely together? Asks r.h. Sin in this heartbreaking collection of poetry.
A Midnight Moon is a moving collection of poetry from celebrated bestselling author r.h. Sin. With the honesty and- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1524889245
- Language: English
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Poetry For The Soul
$19.99 Add to cartDive into the soul-stirring world of ‘Poetry for the Soul, ‘ an enchanting anthology that transcends the ordinary and captures the very essence of our shared human experience. This mesmerizing collect
- Author: J, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989477821
- Language: English
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Between Chance and Mercy
$17.99 Add to cartPoetry collection by James E Cherry. Cherry is the founder/president of The Griot Collective of West Tennessee, a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization where he conducts a monthly poetry workshop. He s
- Author: Cherry, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1733089829
- Language: English
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Black Bell
$22.00 Read moreSweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.
Inspired by the nineteenth century image of
- Author: Rollins, Alison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597002
- Language: English
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The Song of Everything: A Poet’s Exploration of South Carolina’s State Parks
$12.00 Add to cartJoin Glenis Redmond, Greenville’s first Poet Laureate, on a poetic journey through South Carolina’s State Parks with “The Song of Everything”. Being diagnosed with cancer and amid COVID, she visits So
- Author: Redmond, Glenis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1734584475
- Language: English
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We Alive, Beloved: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartNYT Bestselling Author Frederick Joseph explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Blac… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1955905649
- Language: English
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
$18.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0062995294
- Language: English
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Hood Vacations
$16.95 Add to cartMichal ” MJ” Jones’ debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling – an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional na… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570449
- Language: English
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Strange Flowers
$18.00 Add to cartBryan Byrdlong’s debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically
- Author: Byrdlong, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 194630302X
- Language: English
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The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things
$26.00 Add to cartNikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection–a landmark of American literature–speaks to the fury of our current political moment while reflecting on the tragedies and triumphs of her early life.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447525
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 132410516X
- Language: English
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The Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
$18.00 Add to cartI want to know what you know about my people
I said to the caretaker’s granddaughter.
I want you to tell me something about them.
The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems re
- Author: Green, Salaam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990220874
- Language: English
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Savings Time: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartThe Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing.
what will come of what you leave behind?
do you
remember that time
you survi- Author: Marsh, Roya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0374615799
- Language: English
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Doggerel: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartReginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic–but equally rich–lens: dogs.
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089253
- Language: English
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Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti-Congo Story
$17.00 Add to cartA Haitian-born, Boston-based poet explores the personal and political stories of the Haitians who were part of Congo’s 1960s decolonization movement
Between 1960 and 1975, thousands of Haitian profess- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Georges, Danielle Legros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020486
- Language: English
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Deeper the Tropics
$17.95 Read moreDeeper the Tropics navigates the mythology of the self via the masked figure. These poems present the self as an accumulation of faces–or masks–over which we have only partial control. Yet it’s in t… [more below]
- Author: Broaddus, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589090
- Language: English
