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An African Elegy
Poems
This moving collection of poems from the Booker Prize–winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the complex issues that have plagued Africa.First published...
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Anodyne
Poems
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...
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Another Black Girl Miracle
Another Black Girl Miracle is a testimony. It is the documentation of healing. It is a tale of womanhood; its awkwardness and its rewards. Filled with...
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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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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy
Issue One
Astra Magazine, Ecstasy
Issue One
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra...
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Astra Magazine, Filth
Issue Two
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.Astra Magazine connects...
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Be Holding
A Poem
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...
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be/trouble
be/trouble is, in many respects, a love letter to Los Angeles. Even when the city isn't formally mentioned, it is always in the backdrop, always...
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Being Alive is a Good Idea
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim
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A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim
An edited transcript of the far-ranging conversation between Nikki Giovanni and Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl) at the fourth annual Well-Read Black Girl Festival in...
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Besaydoo
Poems
Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home--as place, as people,...
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Best Barbarian
Poems
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...
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Between Good Men & No Man At All
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...
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Bigger Than Bravery
Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Bigger Than Bravery
Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
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...
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Black Buffalo Woman
An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
Black Buffalo Woman
An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton. Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive...
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Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood (Pre-Order, Nov 12 2024)
A vibrant, heartwarming collection of 15 middle grade stories and poems that celebrates the joy, strength, and experience of Black girlhood, including stories from Ibi...
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Black Girl You Are Atlas
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing...
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Black Girl, Call Home
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...
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Black Liturgies
A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior lives, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies"A...
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Black Movie: Poems
"These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera...
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Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted...
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Black Pastoral
Poems
Black Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black...
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Black Women Writers at Work
“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” — Claudia...
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Blacks
Spanning more than 30 years, this collection of literary masterpieces by the venerable Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, arguably Illinois' most beloved Poet Laureate and Chicago's elder...
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Blackspace
On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Undercurrents)
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On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Undercurrents)
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...
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