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The Pond that Ripples
$13.95 Add to cartThe Pond That Ripples represents a person who experiences disruptions and changes in life. Ripples on a pond, on an otherwise smooth surface, may be perceived as calming or disturbing, depending on th
- Author: Summers, Tammi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416461
- Language: English
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Owed
$24.00 Add to cart“Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett’s first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an “arresting debut” that was “abounding in tenderness and rich with character,” with a “virtuosic kind of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0143133853
- Language: English
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Somebody Else Sold the World
$25.00 Add to cartA resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize
The poems in Adrian Matejka’s newest and fifth collect- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Matejka, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136445
- Language: English
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Paper Girl and the Knives That Made Her
$16.99 Read more“I have never been anything but a paper girl. Something to tear into pieces. Something to burn.”
We’ve all been paper before. We’ve all been fragile. Leaflike and gently blowing, enough to create stor- Author: Cofer, Ari B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1771682647
- Language: English
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Unfold: Poetry + Prose
$16.99 Read moreFrom the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of… [more below]
- Author: Cofer, Ari B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1771682841
- Language: English
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Negative Money
$14.95 Add to cartFinalist for the New England Book Award
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and em- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767536
- Language: English
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Concentrate: Poems
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins–a fifteen-- Author: Taylor, Courtney Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452103
- Language: English
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Red Wilderness
$17.95 Read moreIn defiance of life’s intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what h… [more below]
- Series: Stahlecker Selections
- Author: Coleman, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1961897245
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
$30.00 Add to cart“If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified — and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts.” — The Washington Post
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0688140475
- Language: English
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Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartHarryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry’s most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In Regaining Unco
- Author: Mullen, Harryette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453495
- Language: English
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End of Empire
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relations… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Davis, Marissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138472
- Language: English
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I Hope This Helps
$18.95 Add to cartBending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.
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- Author: Bashir, Samiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622722
- Language: English
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Firespitter
$29.95 Add to cartA long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez’s poetry.
Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way … [more below]
- Author: Cortez, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622323
- Language: English
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Soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartBlack poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan.
First published in 1970, soulscript is a poign… [more below]- Series: Harlem Moon Classics
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0767918460
- Language: English
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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
$30.00 Add to cartOn the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney’s visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes f
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060128
- Language: English
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Second Nature
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 23rd annual
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry PrizeChaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences,
historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that
c… [more below]- Author: Ballard, Chaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145525
- Language: English
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Second Nature
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize, Chaun Ballard’s gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates t
- Author: Ballard, Chaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145657
- Language: English
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The Lost Songs of Nina Simone
$21.99 Add to cartShonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible Nina Simone. With this book, Buchanan… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Shonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: May 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1960018981
- Language: English
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My Dear Wildflower
$18.99 Add to cartA love letter to his fans, My Dear Wildflower finds New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin at his best, guiding readers through the journey out of despair and back to self-worth with the honest relatabili… [more below]
- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1524893234
- Language: English
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Everything Endless
$14.95 Add to cartA cosmic collaboration between Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Grand Master Linda D. Addison and visionary versifier Jamal Hodge, Everything Endless, sheds brilliant light in dark times. With th
- Author: Addison, Linda D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1947879839
- Language: English
