#blkgrlswurld ZINE Summer 2020
#blkgrlswurld Introducing the Summer 2020 print issue of #blkgrlswurld ZINE. (40+ pages, full color magazine.) Feat. self-portraits selected from our photography contest earlier this year as... Black Futures Symposium x Rep ClubBooks
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1919
Eve L. Ewing The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not... AntiracismBooks
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808s & Otherworlds
Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies
Sean Avery Medlin 808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised,... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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A Fire in My Head
Poems for the Dawn (Pre-Order, Nov 15 2022)
Ben Okri From the renowned Booker Prize–winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests,... BooksPoetry
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
Hanif Abdurraqib In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how... Non-FictionPoetry
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A Light Bulb Symphony
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Phil Kaye A compact 11-poem collection of poet Phil Kaye's early work. Includes poems such as "Teeth", "Suburbia" and "Funerals are Like Birthday Parties (For My Grandmother)".... BooksNon-Fiction
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A Treatise on Stars
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau)Winner of the Bollingen PrizeFinalist for the National Book Award A Treatise on Stars extends... Best-SellersBooks
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African American Poetry
250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent... BooksPoetry
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Against Heaven
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Kemi Alabi Kemi Alabi's transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and... BooksPoetry
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Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences,... AntiracismBooks
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Ain't Never Not Been Black
Javon Johnson Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways.Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson... BooksPoetry
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Alive at the End of the World
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Saeed Jones Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday... BooksLGBTQIA+
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All the Blood Involved in Love
Maya Marshall All the Blood Involved in Love is an urgent and evocative collection--featuring complex and compelling poems about the choices we make surrounding home, freedom, healing, partnership,... BooksPoetry
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American Sex Tape
Jameka Williams Moving beyond a biting indictment of American popular culture, Jameka Williams captures the reader's gaze and stares right back: "I'm sorry, America, but I'm rich... BooksPoetry
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during... BooksPoetry
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Anodyne
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Khadijah Queen The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize... BooksPoetry
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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy
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Astra Magazine, Filth
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Be Holding
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Ross Gay Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward... BooksNon-Fiction
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be/trouble
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Being Alive is a Good Idea
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim
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Best Barbarian
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Roger Reeves The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico... AntiracismBooks
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Between Good Men & No Man At All
Pam Ward These poems will have you laughing, crying and begging for more. Unflinching no matter the subject at hand, Pam Ward sings “songs only grown people... BooksPoetry
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Bigger Than Bravery
Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Valerie Boyd An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with contributions by Pearl Cleage, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Tayari Jones, Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Deesha Philyaw, Khadijah... AntiracismBooks
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Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Medium • Career Contessa“You are carrying in your hands a... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Black Movie: Poems
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Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
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Black Women Writers at Work
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Blacks
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Blackspace
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Anaïs Duplan Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
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Blood on the Fog
Pocket Poets Series No. 62
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Bone
Yrsa Daley-Ward Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and... BooksPoetry
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Book of Questions
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Breath Better Spent
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Burning Sugar
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Call Us What We Carry
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Cane
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Cannibal
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
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Change Sings
A Children's Anthem
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Chlorine Sky
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Chorus
A Literary Mixtape
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Chrome Valley: Poems
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Mahogany L. Browne Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands... BooksPoetry
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Citizen
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Collected Poems
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Concentrate
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Courtney Faye Taylor Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza GriffithsIn her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the... Best-SellersBooks
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Concrete Kids
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Akwaeke Emezi In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji, and Dear Senthuran—imagines a new depth of belonging. Crafted of both... Black Futures Symposium x Rep ClubBooks
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Yesika Salgado Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes... BooksPoetry
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Crushed Marigold
Christiana Castillo Christiana Castillo’s Crushed Marigold, illustrated by Karla Rosas, is a poetry collection imbued with ancestral teachings, identity work and healing through ritual and embodied wisdom.... BooksPoetry
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Dance We Do
A Poet Explores Black Dance
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Date & Time
Phil Kaye Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of time, as jagged... BooksNon-Fiction
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Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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 of... BooksPoetry
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Domestic Work: Poems
Natasha Trethewey Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of Bellocq's Ophelia and Domestic Work, has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in The Best... BooksPoetry
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Don't Call Us Dead
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Dream of Europe
Audre Lorde (1984-1992) edited by Mayra RodrÍguez Castro. Preface by Dagmar Schultz. AUDRE LORDE: DREAM OF EUROPE elucidates Lorde's methodology as a poet, mentor, and activist... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Dreaming of You
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