Political & Protest
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Forget about Sleep
$18.95 Add to cartArdent, intimate poems by a bold poet of sensual and spiritual life . . .
Miriam Levine’s Forget about Sleep portrays the gifts and perils of aging as she remembers lost lovers, friends, beloved family
- Author: Levine, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1630451118
- Language: English
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Poetic People Power: Three Spoken Word Shows for Social Change
$24.95 Add to cartFor 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday live
- Author: Bracco, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329235
- Language: English
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The Thomas Salto
$16.95 Read moreThe Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and … [more below]
- Author: Straw, Timmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0578358549
- Language: English
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[…]: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize
A Reading the West Book Award Finalist
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and esse… [more below]
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 163955128X
- 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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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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Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration
$24.95 Add to cartLike A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s incarceration system.
These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up- Author: Delgado, Diana Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- 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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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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Set Change
$16.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region’s history of violence as seen throu… [more below]
- Author: Andrukhovych, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378841
- Language: English
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Dear Inheritors
$18.00 Add to cart“Dear Inheritors” moves from the intimacy of home and family to community to social movement, to other countries, back to dirt, river birch and sycamore, to the sea. Opening with the early days of the
- Author: Engel, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Wondermental
$18.00 Add to cartBeing old and getting old all at the same time.
An amalgam of moments and an accumulation of fragments.
Birdsong, coyotes howling, tornado warnings instead of honking,
bodega vibes and subway stops –
A
- Author: Vassilakis, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Blue on a Blue Palette
$18.00 Read moreLynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women–their joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threa… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1960145142
- 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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What to Wear Out
$20.00 Add to cartWhat to Wear Out is a poetry collection that offers a portrait of a mind corseted by the pathological norms of patriarchy, white femininity, and the neoliberal notion of happiness as a project of capi
- Author: DeGregorio, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218545635
- 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.
I Hope This Helps … [more below]
- 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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The End of Childhood: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“These poems achieve the beautiful, uncanny fusing that Miller defines as poetry itself.”–Rick Barot, author of Moving the Bones
A tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles
- Author: Miller, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1571315667
- Language: English
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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicol?s Guill?n presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.
Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicol?s- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Guill?n, Nicol?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226834794
- 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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