Political & Protest
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The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations
$5.99 Add to cartOriginally written during his two year imprisonment in Atlanta, The Tragedy of White Injustice and Other Meditations is a collection of short thoughts or, impromptu poetry, from one of the Fathers of
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1513137719
- Language: English
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God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems
$12.98 Add to cart“Ceasar K. Avelar swings a Central American hammer in poems that sing the working life while also decrying the gaps and empties. He’s a powerful voice from the Central American migrant stream essentia… [more below]
- Author: Avelar, Ceasar K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088109896
- Language: English
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Poems by Presidents: The First-Ever Anthology
$14.95 Read more“Well-written, thoroughly researched, and impeccably organized, Poems by Presidents explores an intriguing and unexpected side to many American presidents: they wrote poetry! In this excellent antholo… [more below]
- Author: Croland, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851532
- Language: English
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While the Undertaker Sleeps
$23.95 Add to cartSelf-confessed ‘wise guy of the prose poem’ and also its unofficial laureate, Peter Johnson is one of America’s foremost practitioners and critics of prose poetry. The publication of his While the Und
- Author: Johnson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1952335590
- Language: English
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Sleeping as Fast as I Can: Poems
$32.00 Add to cartWith the rise of anti-Semitism, extremism, political polarization, mass shootings, the fraying of Black-Jewish-Asian alliances, and the loss of personal connections during the age of Covid, where is G
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821368
- Language: English
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Sentenced
$18.95 Add to cartSentenced: It’s not that we didn’t know what the sentence would be, it’s that we didn’t know what would happen on the other side of the sentence. We didn’t understand that it would be a long story, pa
- Author: Schumejda, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450987
- Language: English
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The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
$17.95 Add to cartThe first bilingual edition of this radically original work
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem wa
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500666
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov
$39.95 Add to cartHow splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov’
- Author: Levertov, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1080
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237540
- Language: English
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Columns
$16.49 Add to cartWhen Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary world of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] by storm. Zabolotsky
- Author: Zabolotsky, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1911469150
- Language: English
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Sleeping as Fast as I Can: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartWith the rise of anti-Semitism, extremism, political polarization, mass shootings, the fraying of Black-Jewish-Asian alliances, and the loss of personal connections during the age of Covid, where is G
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 163982135X
- Language: English
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5 Spirits in my Mouth: poems, laments, & incantations
$15.50 Add to cart“Whether it’s through her virtuoso, musical performances, her layered and lyrical song compositions, her stirring vocals that reflect her love and respect for ancient, global traditions, or the evocat
- Author: Morigan, Pan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118161
- Language: English
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We Still Be: Poems and Performances
$12.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited full-length debut of poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S. Flores.
”Paul S. Flores unlocks the
- Author: Flores, Paul S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1088117775
- Language: English
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Homegirls & Handgrenades
$17.95 Read moreWinner of the American Book Award
A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other- Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012955
- Language: English
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False Offering
$18.00 Add to cartRita Mookerjee’s False Offering, while providing a trenchant critique of the oppressiveness of “white space,” is also glittery, culinary sumptuous, and scythe sharp. Shot through with equal parts “nec
- Author: Mookerjee, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1956907041
- Language: English
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New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
$19.99 Add to cartNew and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 0060514485
- Language: English
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Have You Been Long Enough at Table
$18.00 Add to cartTaking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Leslie Sainz’s Have You Been Long Enough at Table explores the personal and historical tragedies of the Cuban American experience through a d… [more below]
- Author: Sainz, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1959030116
- Language: English
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Worn Smooth between Devourings
$18.95 Add to cartThe poems in Worn Smooth between Devourings travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, even in l
- Author: Camp, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1630451029
- Language: English
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The Water We Swim In
$20.00 Add to cartChristian Aldana’s debut poetry collection, The Water We Swim In, is an ode to radical care. Through community organizing and deeply held love, Aldana follows in the footsteps of Grace Lee Boggs again
- Author: Aldana, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: May 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985771268
- Language: English
