Political & Protest

  • Sonnets from a Cell

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    *Winner 2023 Alcuin Award* Poems for and about the incarcerated.

    Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psycholo

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    • Author: Peters, Bradley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1771316136
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

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    The definitive guide to a major African American poet

    This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton’s unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in Ameri

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Hernton, Calvin C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500364
    • Language: English
  • To the Letter: Poems

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    Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story

    “A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.”–Polish Book Institut

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    • Author: Rozycki, Tomasz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 145
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861725
    • Language: English
  • An Abundance of Caution

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    A poetry collection lending a voice to finding grace in a time marked by environmental crisis, global pandemic, and personal loss, answering uncertainty with clarity, imagination, and compassion in li

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    • Author: Witte, George
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 0991378067
    • Language: English
  • American Scapegoat

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    American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America’s neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper con

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    • Author: Surin, Enzo Silon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: May 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1625570503
    • Language: English
  • Murmur

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    A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America.

    The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the ques

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    • Author: Barnett, Cameron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 98
    • Publish Date: February 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 1637680872
    • Language: English
  • Cloud Missives

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    Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of… [more below]

    • Author: Allen, Kenzie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1959030604
    • Language: English
  • My Specific Awe and Wonder: Poems

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    Reuben Jackson’s rhythmic and musical poems merge love, beauty, justice, and the lived Black experience in America.

    My Specific Awe and Wonder is a collection of new and selected poems Jackson describ

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    • Author: Jackson, Reuben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: August 31 2024
    • ISBN10: 1578691788
    • Language: English
  • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

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    Weaving science-fiction, Mexican folklore, and magical realism, this 50-poem collection explores the wonders and pitfalls of humanity in a future yet to come. Experience a faraway world where sapient

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    • Author: Iniguez, Pedro
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798989630806
    • Language: English
  • The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

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    “All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body.”

    In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner

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    • Author: Borzutzky, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 156689705X
    • Language: English
  • Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma

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    Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma is a bilingual poetry collection, in English and Spanish, by the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award Sonia Gutiérrez, with t

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    • Author: Gutiérrez, Sonia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 182
    • Publish Date: April 18 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798868907302
    • Language: English
  • Transgenesis

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    An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories.

    Selected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series, this collection is … [more below]

    • Author: Winter, Ava Nathaniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639550046
    • Language: English
  • Alemany Bay Window / Redwood Coast Record Crate

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    Alemany Bay Window / Redwood Coast Record Crate is David Maduli’s dual poetry collection rooted in the physical, cultural, and emotional geographies of a shifting San Francisco Bay Area. Side A tracks

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    • Author: Maduli, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 86
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1965439004
    • Language: English
  • Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality

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    Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M‘s of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring w… [more below]

  • Holy Winter

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    The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova’s 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor–the world had withdrawn from her, time had “gone numb.”

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    • Author: Stepanova, Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811235149
    • Language: English
  • Skip Tracer

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    Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system” (complete with “records,” “tracks,” “decks,” and “channels”), expertly cura

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    • Author: Poetic, Jive
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: July 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324093161
    • Language: English
  • Personal Problem

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    On the heels of his 2020 debut Love & Solidarity, Brendan has returned with a brand new collection of poems that circle his obsessions; money, class, work and the political economy of ecological colla

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    • Author: Joyce, Brendan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1088278426
    • Language: English
  • we was bois together

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    we was bois together examines identities and belonging through the lenses of Blackness, queerness, and gender non-conforming narratives. The poems act as an homage and an ode to traversing these ident

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    • Author: Smoot, Kelsey L.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 44
    • Publish Date: June 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1957840293
    • Language: English
  • World Too Loud to Hear: Poems

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    Stephen Kampa’s World Too Loud to Hear confronts today’s zeitgeist of dark social norms online or off. Our litany of individual and collective shortcomings is laid bare or castigated-as, for instance,

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    • Author: Kampa, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 134
    • Publish Date: November 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1773491563
    • Language: English
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