My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
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Native Guard
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Nepantla
An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
Christopher Soto The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body
Asiya Wadud Through a series of transmissions and proposals, the poems in No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body explore the intelligence of the body, especially... BooksLGBTQIA+
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November 16 + 17 EVENT: A Night with Hanif & Friends
Reparations Club WHO & WHAT: TWO NIGHTS ONLY! An IRL & Virtual EVENT w/ poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib and special guests to be announced! Join us as... BooksEvents
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Now & Then
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Gil Scott-Heron Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed ‘bluesologist’ triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm... BooksMusic
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Obit
Victoria Chang After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of... BooksNon-Fiction
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Tyehimba Jess Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers... Best-SellersBooks
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Only on the Weekends
Dean Atta From the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful--and sometimes painful--fallout of pursuing the love we deserve.... BooksFiction
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Optic Subwoof
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Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night
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Owed
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Joshua Bennett From "one of the most impressive voices in poetry today" (Dissent magazine), a new collection that shines a light on forgotten or obscured parts of the... BooksPoetry
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Paradise
Toni Morrison In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she... BooksFiction
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Passion
June Jordan After decades out of print, Passion―one of June Jordan’s most important collections―has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem... AntiracismBooks
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Phillis Wheatley
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Phillis Wheatley The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship,... BooksClassics
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Playlist for the Apocalypse
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Rita Dove A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first... Best-SellersBooks
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Playlist for the Apocalypse
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Rita Dove Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - PoetryA piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary... Best-SellersBooks
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Plenty.
BeeLyn Naihiwet These poems oscillate beautifully between observing the vast and the small. They often live in the metaphorical world of the eye and its power to... BooksPoetry
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Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book AwardPostcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure.... Best-SellersBooks
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Promises of Gold
José Olivarez A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender,... BooksNon-Fiction
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Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam “Punching the Air is the profound sound of humanity in verse. About a boy who uses his creative mind to overcome the creativity of racism. About... Best-SellersBooks
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Punks
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Radical Self-Care for Black Women
Katelyn Rivas Radical Self-Care for Black Women: A Poetry Zine explores themes on black womxn and mixed race identity. The poems take on the vulnerable lens of... BooksPoetry
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Refractive Africa
Will Alexander "The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has... BooksPoetry
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Remember
Joy Harjo US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem Remember, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of... BooksChildren's
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Respect the MIC
Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School
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Rifqa
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Said the Shotgun to the Head
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Salvage the Bones
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Sana Sana
Ariana Brown After ten years of performing her spoken-word poetry, Ariana Brown gathers her favorite poems in her chapbook Sana Sana. With a tender and critical voice, she explores Black girlhood, the... BooksEquity Conference 2023
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Selected Poems
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Shake Loose My Skin
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Sonia Sanchez An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Shake... BooksPoetry
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Sister Love
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Audre Lorde & Pat Parker Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and... BooksLGBTQIA+
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So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
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Terrance Hayes A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead Since the publication of his first collection, Muscular Music, in... BooksPoetry
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Something, Someday
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Amanda Gorman The stunning new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson You're told thatThis won't work,But how will you... Best-SellersBooks
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Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
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Remica Bingham-Risher Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Spill
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Spoken Word
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Stones
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Kevin Young A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called one of the poetry stars of his... BooksNon-Fiction
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Such Color
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Sweet People Are Everywhere
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Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
Warsan Shire What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth,' what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence... BooksPoetry
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Tesoro
Yesika Salgado Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It is a telling of the balance between... BooksPoetry
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The Age of Phillis
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers A collection of original poems imagining the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave.In 1773, a young,... Best-SellersBooks
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
Edited by Toni Cade Bambara
Various Authors A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers. When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced... Black Futures Symposium x Rep ClubBooks
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The Blacker the Berry
Joyce Carol Thomas Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In... BooksChildren's
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The Book of Delights
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The Cancer Journals
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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The Complete Works of Pat Parker
Pat Parker, Judy Grahn & Julie R. Enszer "Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against Black bodies—especially those of black women—to the suffering engendered by multiple, egregious oppressions. With THE COMPLETE WORKS... BooksLGBTQIA+
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The Crown Ain't Worth Much
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls
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The Depths of Anima
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Kai Adia The Depths of Anima is an introspective look at Black girlhood and the transition into womanhood. It challenges Carl Jung's concept of "anima" by introducing an interpretation... BooksPoetry
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The Essential June Jordan
June Jordan "...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as... BooksClassics
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The Future of Black
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