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Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike: 50th Anniversary Edition
$25.00 Add to cartWith the original remaining copies destroyed in a 1982 arson fire at the Fag Rag/Good Gay Poets offices, a beloved cult classic returns to print for the first time in five decades
Already known as a “p
- Author: Wieners, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991298872
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an iti
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993537
- Language: English
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Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems
$35.00 Read moreAll the blazingly original work by Larry Levis, “one of the greatest poets of a generation” (Carolyn Forch?)
The poetry of Larry Levis increasingly occupies a legendary place of reverence among poets- Author: Levis, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1644453711
- Language: English
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
$24.95 Add to cartHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology… [more below]
- Author: Oler, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088972
- Language: English
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The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
$23.00 Add to cartA collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chesnutt, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105345
- Language: English
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Driving the Beast: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartDriving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken’s poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in … [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Bakken, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: December 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184756
- Language: English
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Homeboy Art Academy: Youth Anthology, Vol. 1
$11.98 Add to cartHomeboy Art Academy: Youth Anthology Vol. 1 collects poetry written by teens during poetry workshops at Homeboy Art Academy with world-renowned poet Matt Sedillo. These poems detail the poets’ love fo
- Author: Sedillo, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798869350213
- Language: English
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My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper
$19.98 Add to cart“In My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper, Alyesha Wise invites us into stories that are as raw as they are healing. Through themes of family, identity, and peace, Wise transforms pain into resilience and
- Author: Wise, Alyesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349476389
- Language: English
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Lawyering for Liberation: A Toolbox for Movement Lawyers
$19.95 Add to cartThis fiery manifesto provides a concrete action plan for legal professionals and activists advancing Black liberation and transformative social change.
Revolutions happen in the streets, not in court- Author: Reali, Ameca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0520392361
- Language: English
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To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved
$19.99 Add to cartTo All the Women I’ve Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its flame, from bestselling poet Billy Chapata.
Through poetry and prose, Billy Chapata–- Author: Chapata, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881605322
- Language: English
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Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies
$24.99 Read moreAn illustrated history that celebrates the legacy of Black actors, films, and filmmakers from the silent era through today and explores the deeply embedded racism of the film industry, from the award-… [more below]
- Author: Walker, David F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 198486016X
- Language: English
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Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
$24.00 Read moreFood justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a world where everyone has enough? What does it mean to
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Reese, Ashanté M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324076461
- Language: English
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Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
$19.99 Add to cartAN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLE
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA’S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538740338
- Language: English
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
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Hard Listening
$21.99 Add to cartHard Listening is a testament of hope, celebrating the fierce feminine in song and on the streets with odes to a pair of girls hanging out on a neighbor’s porch, a naked woman in the locker room of th
- Author: Luterman, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1961741237
- Language: English
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The Appendectomy Grin
$19.00 Add to cartAs a second-wave veteran of the form, Charles Rafferty has emerged as one of America’s greatest living prose poets. Rafferty’s new collection, The Appendectomy Grin, is a model of the sort of bemused,
- Author: Rafferty, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 101
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145800
- Language: English
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The Weather of Our Names
$21.95 Add to cartCal Freeman’s new poetry collection reveals universal sensitivity and beauty in its lines. Readers will encounter numerous stunning and memorable passages throughout these pieces. These verses nourish
- Author: Freeman, Cal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1960329987
- Language: English
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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926961
- Language: English
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Inquest
$19.00 Add to cart“A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan.”-Billy Collins
Michael McGriff’s book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda’s post… [more below]
- Author: McGriff, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1945680830
- Language: English
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Word Time
$15.95 Add to cart“This former San Francisco Poet Laureate and worldly cosmonaut handles politics, war, and love in equal measure as the best poets of the people do. Pablo Neruda. Bob Kaufman. June Jordan. Wanda Colema
- Author: Major, Devorah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869415
- Language: English
