Button Poetry
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I’ll Fly Away
$16.00 Read more2023 Midwest Book Awards Finalist
2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner
2021 Goodreads Choice Awards – NomineeLanguage so often fails us.
In his highly anticipated follow up to Helium,… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Francisco, Rudy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1943735697
- Language: English
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Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky
$18.00 Add to cartExcuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every book, the author utilizes various tools and methods to excavate his experiences and find poetry… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Francisco, Rudy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340773
- Language: English
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The Crown Ain’t Worth Much
$16.00 Add to cart2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Poetry Honorable Mention
2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Grand Prize Short List
2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award NomineeThe Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib’s firs… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry #2
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1943735042
- Language: English
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Wild/Hurt: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWild/Hurt by Meg Ford takes the abstract ‘journey’ of trauma recovery and makes it concrete with interactive poetics. The reader can follow multiple paths that mirror the choices, experiences, and s… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Ford, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1638341214
- Language: English
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Shapeshifter: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartL.E. Bowman’s latest collection Shapeshifter aches with the soft sorrows and hard-won joys of life.
Melodic and introspective, Bowman’s poems converse–struggling with grief and hopelessness while figh… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Bowman, L. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1638341184
- Language: English
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Wash
$18.00 Add to cartWASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart’s praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a devotional space for healing.
Stewart’s… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Stewart, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1638341206
- Language: English
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Hated for the Gods
$18.00 Read moreSean Patrick Mulroy’s Hated for the Gods invites the reader to embrace their queer heritage with disarming tenderness, and urges them to celebrate the joy of gay sex without shame.
Plaintive and joyou… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Mulroy, Sean Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340714
- Language: English
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Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
$16.00 Read moreWith work that ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the silence of rage and loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must read.
This is a collection of work that asks itself … [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Singer, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1943735611
- Language: English
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Sweet, Young, & Worried
$18.00 Add to cartSweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird
Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtakin… [more below]- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Baird, Blythe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1638340498
- Language: English
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About Time
$18.00 Add to cartNeil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent gl… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Hilborn, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638342024
- Language: English
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Poetry by Chance: An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice
$25.00 Read moreWriters of all ages and levels of experience have been using Taylor Mali’s Metaphor Dice for years to explore and revel in the formulaic nature of metaphors. The game gives you a collection of three d… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Mali, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340749
- Language: English
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Toy Gun
$18.00 Read moreIn Toy Gun, Matt fires his offbeat childhood and adolescence at the page. He enters each exit wound with sharp diction and form, extracting shards of trauma, mental health, and evolutionary violence…. [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Coonan, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1638340803
- Language: English
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Nothing Is Okay
$16.00 Read more2019 Ohioana Book Award – Readers’ Choice Winner
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about … [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Wiley, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1943735301
- Language: English
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Black Movie
$12.00 Read more2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner
“These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ‘a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry Contest Winner #3
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 194373500X
- Language: English
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Urbanshee
$18.00 Read more2023 IPPY Awards – Poetry Gold
2023 IBPA Awards – Poetry Silver
2023 Publishing Triangle Awards Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry – FinalistUrbanshee is Siaara Freeman’s retelling of fairy tales a… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Freeman, Siaara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1638340250
- Language: English
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
$16.00 Add to cart2017 Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Poetry Book Runner-Up
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem “Explain… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Benaim, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1943735204
- Language: English
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Our Numbered Days
$16.00 Add to cart“When you’re dumb enough for long enough, you’re gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they’re gonna love you anyway, and it’s gonna go so poorly,” Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry #1
- Author: Hilborn, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 989641562
- Language: English
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Never Catch Me
$18.00 Read more2023 Midwest Book Award Winner
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalistDarius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration ov… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Simpson, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 163834048X
- Language: English
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Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing
$18.00 Add to cartIn its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters’ Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe B… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Winters, Topaz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1638340935
- Language: English
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Cottonmouth
$18.00 Read moreMiya Coleman’s premier collection, Cottonmouth paints the picture of what makes up a home, and also, more importantly, what doesn’t.
Readers join Coleman as she journeys through her own conceptions of… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Coleman, Miya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1638342997
- Language: English
