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APRIL 30th EVENT: Living In Wisdom
Devi Brown & Lalah Delia
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May 27th EVENT: Original Sins
Eve L. Ewing & Nikki Barry
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Celebrating Poetry Month
The New, The Old, The Relevant
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Doggerel
Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...
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Blessing the Boats
Winner of the National Book Award 2000. The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today. Lucille Clifton won the 2007...
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Way I Feel
(Clear Red Vinyl)
Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. First reissue of this powerful blend of funk, soul, & poetry. "What does it mean to be a Black...
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Truth Is On Its Way
Limited opaque colored vinyl LP pressing. First reissue of this powerful blend of funk, soul, & poetry. "Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside...
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Reprise
Poems and Photographs
In this innovative work of self-portraiture and poetry, Reprise looks at 2020 with an overarching question: what does it mean to grapple with an America that has...
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savings time
The Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing. what will come of what...
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
1968-1998
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
1968-1998
From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work! “Nikki Giovanni is one of our national...
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Permanent Record
A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L....
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Latino Poetry
The Library of America Anthology (Loa #382)
Latino Poetry
The Library of America Anthology (Loa #382)
This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to...
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The New Testament
Jericho Brown ushers the body from political and religious battlegrounds, employing the rhythms of sexuality and spirituality to protest oppression. Jericho Brown worked as the...
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Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...
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If I Must Die
Poetry and Prose
"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and...
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The Wanda Coleman Songbook EP
Limited-Edition Vinyl
Sold outThe Wanda Coleman Songbook EP
Limited-Edition Vinyl
52 Walker presents THE WANDA COLEMAN SONGBOOK EP, produced by Cauleen Smith on the occasion of her exhibition at 52 Walker, New York, on view...
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Forest of Noise
Poems
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu...
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January Children
(African Poetry Book)
January Children
(African Poetry Book)
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets | 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are...
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Appalachian Elegy
Poetry and Place
Appalachian Elegy
Poetry and Place
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique...
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This Is the Honey
An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
This Is the Honey
An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
A breathtaking new poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava...
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Survival Takes a Wild Imagination
Poems
In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way...
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Nomenclature
New and Collected Poems
Nomenclature
New and Collected Poems
Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to...
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Homegirls & Handgrenades
Winner 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...
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Punks
New & Selected Poems
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in...
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Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens...
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Jimmy's Blues
and Other Poems
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin...
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THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO OUR TBR
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Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces...
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Somadina
From the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save...
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Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging
(Pre-Order, March 10 2026)
Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging
(Pre-Order, March 10 2026)
A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews, by a celebrated cultural critic....
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Happy Land
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP...
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Hail Mary:
Stories
In this stunning collection, nine Nigerian women discover what it means to confront traditional expectations that have held them hostage for too long. Meet Ifeoma. She's...
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To Save and to Destroy
Writing as an Other
To Save and to Destroy
Writing as an Other
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a...
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Afia in the Land of Wonders
In her stunning literary debut, Mia Araujo presents a gorgeous reimagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, spinning a new story that is accompanied by arresting, ethereal...
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Prisons Must Fall
From Mariame Kaba, New York Times-bestselling author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us, and social worker Jane Ball comes a powerful book showing the harm that...
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Eden's Light
A gentle story to help parents and children discuss racial injustice and empower young readers to let their inner lights shineLike her favorite superheroes, Eden...
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Ripening Time
(Pre-Order, April 22 2025)
Ripening Time
(Pre-Order, April 22 2025)
Celebrate the power of food to create delicious, lasting memories with this poetic and playful exploration of the joy of waiting for, and finally sharing,...
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Reprise
Poems and Photographs
In this innovative work of self-portraiture and poetry, Reprise looks at 2020 with an overarching question: what does it mean to grapple with an America that has...
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When the Harvest Comes
In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man reckoning with the death of his father must confront his painful past--and his deepest desires...
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Fish Tales
This lost classic takes a mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit. Zooming between the bohemian demimonde of New...
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Vanishing World
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between...
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The L Word:
A Photographic Journal
The L Word:
A Photographic Journal
For the first time, take an intimate glimpse into the groundbreaking television show The L Word with behind-the-scenes photography taken by series star Jennifer Beals...
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What Black Is This You Say?
An illustrated anthology of texts on artist Amanda Williams, edited in collaboration with Camille Bacon.What Black Is This You Say?, by Amanda Williams, convenes a...
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Matriarch
(Pre-Order, April 22 2025)
Matriarch
(Pre-Order, April 22 2025)
A glorious chronicle of a life like none other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood “You are Celestine,” she...
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The Catch
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
The Catch
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
This inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl × Liveright series is a darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity....
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The Wilderness
(Pre-Order, Sep 16 2025)
The Wilderness
(Pre-Order, Sep 16 2025)
"Wonderfully ambitious.... Flournoy explores the complexity of friendship, family, and home in a voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating. I loved this...
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Florida Water: Poems
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
Florida Water: Poems
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
Inspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reveal, and...
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The Battle for the Black Mind
(Pre-Order, May 13 2025)
The Battle for the Black Mind
(Pre-Order, May 13 2025)
The Battle for the Black Mind delves into the complex history of Black education in the United States from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until...
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Flirting Lessons
The exciting new contemporary romance and—her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a...
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We Don't Talk about Carol
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
We Don't Talk about Carol
(Pre-Order, June 3 2025)
A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret--and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home--in this gripping...
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Old School Indian
(Pre-Order, May 6 2025)
Old School Indian
(Pre-Order, May 6 2025)
A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá ka from Ahkwesáhsne--or, as white...
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Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces...
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Zeal
(Pre-Order, April 22 2025)
The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of...
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