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Birthright
$16.00 Add to cart2021 Arab American Awards – George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
2021 Lambda Literary Awards – Bisexual Poetry Finalist
2020 Big Other Awards – Poetry Winner
2020 Big Other Awards – Readers’ Choice F… [more below]- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Abraham, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1943735670
- Language: English
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Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
$8.95 Read moreVoted Britain’s favourite poem in 1996, ‘Warning’, written in 1961, is known and loved the world over. Its declaration of defiance, so vividly and cleverly expressed, appeals to the rebel in all of us… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1788168186
- Language: English
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Dancing Room Only
$21.95 Add to cartDancing Room Only is a wild romp into the forgotten center of our people. With his signature rollicking style, a keen sense of humor, and an acute ear for dialect and voice, Reese archives the sinners
- Author: Reese, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1630450731
- Language: English
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Composition
$21.00 Read moreIn his debut full length collection, Junious ‘Jay’ Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented th… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Ward, Junious
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340471
- Language: English
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Nocturne
$24.99 Add to cartLonglisted for Laurel Prize 2023. Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander’s compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of th
- Series: Pavilion Poetry Lup
- Author: Hollander, Jodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1802078134
- Language: English
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Milk Tongue
$17.95 Add to cartAn exploration of what we inherit or pass on, illuminating the gray area between ubiquitous human desires and overconsumption.
Ir鐺grave;ne Mathieu’s third collection, milk tongue, refers to the layer… [more below]
- Author: Mathieu, Irène
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052668
- Language: English
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Lying in: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.
“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the sh
- Author: Metzger, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550100
- Language: English
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Gods of Four Mile Creek: Poems, Essays and Photographs by Phillip Howerton
$18.95 Add to cartGods of Four Mile Creek explores the inescapable ambivalence we hold toward the places of our upbringing. In 68 exquisitely detailed poems, 19 photographs, and two essays, Phillip Howerton considers a… [more below]
- Author: Howerton, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 195223283X
- Language: English
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Rock Stars
$18.00 Read moreWitty, nostalgic, rhythmic and forlorn, Matt Mason’s poetry calls on the classic rock music that shaped him. Mason laments on his childhood in the 80s and addresses the graduating preschool class of 2… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Mason, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 163834065X
- Language: English
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Date & Time
$16.00 Add to cart2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Honorable Mention Winner
Phil Kaye’s debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of ti… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Kaye, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1943735360
- Language: English
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Cut to Bloom
$18.00 Add to cartWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom, Noah Arhm Choi attempts to forg… [more below]
- Author: Choi, Noah Arhm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1949342212
- Language: English
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The Truth Is
$8.99 Add to cartThe voice behind the collection of poems, The Truth Is, knows well the complicated relationships children have with their parents, especially the relationship daughters have with their mothers. In poe… [more below]
- Author: Shalom, Vivienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: July 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988563105
- Language: English
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How to Maintain Eye Contact
$16.00 Read more2022 Button Poetry Prize Runner-Up
How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it.
Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncer… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Lynn, Robert Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340463
- Language: English
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Heirloom
$18.00 Add to cartAshia Ajani is the product of migration. From Bentonia, Mississippi to Detroit, Michigan to Denver, Colorado, Ajani’s family has carved out small sanctuaries for themselves among roses, concrete and u… [more below]
- Author: Ajani, Ashia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1949342492
- Language: English
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Tap Out: Poems
$14.99 Add to cart“Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity.”―New York Times New & Noteworthy
“[A] gritty, insight
“Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.”—The Millions, “Must Read Poetry”- Author: Kunz, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1328518124
- Language: English
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Love Poems for People with Children
$16.00 Add to cartIn the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry fo… [more below]
- Author: Kenney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0593085248
- Language: English
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The Mobius Strip Club of Grief
$18.00 Add to cartThe M?ius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay–dearly, with both money and conscience–to watch the dead perform scandalous acts
- Author: Stone, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1941040853
- Language: English
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I Shimmer Sometimes, Too
$16.00 Add to cartPorsha Olayiwola’s debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance.
These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Ol… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Olayiwola, Porsha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 194373545X
- Language: English
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Mahogany
$16.95 Read moremahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love
mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Lewis, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500771
- Language: English
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40 Weeks
$18.00 Add to cart40 WEEKS, the newest collection from Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, navigates the world through a poet-mother’s sensibilities. She captures stories and lyric moments around and within the speaker’s body, m
- Author: Dasbach, Julia Kolchinsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919931
- Language: English
