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Antediluvian
Poems
Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Kameryn Alexa Carter is a poet and founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for...
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Black Bell
Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity. Inspired by the nineteenth...
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Regular price $20.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $20.95Black Lesbian in White America and Other Writings
Black lesbian feminist, essayist, journalist, poet, author, and cultural worker, Anita Cornwell wrote extensively about her experiences as a Black lesbian in the United States...
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Regular price $19.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.99Desire Path
Poems (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
Desire Path
Poems (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives:...
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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power (Pre-order, Sep 29 2026)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power (Pre-order, Sep 29 2026)
On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights...
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Regular price $17.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $17.95Equinox
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
Equinox
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling...
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Regular price From $11.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $11.99Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as...
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Regular price $34.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $34.99Freedom's Gate
Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
Freedom's Gate
Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement (Pre-order, Oct 13 2026)
Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place...
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Regular price From $18.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $18.99Heart Talk
Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
Heart Talk
Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been called “the Millennial Oprah” by New York Magazine—that offers creative inspiration and...
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In the Blood
Poems
A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.I am no mystic. I knownothing...
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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99Journey
The Year That Changes Everything 365 Daily Reflections to Build Self-Awareness and Inner Peace (Pre-order, Nov 10 2026)
Journey
The Year That Changes Everything 365 Daily Reflections to Build Self-Awareness and Inner Peace (Pre-order, Nov 10 2026)
A year-long guide to awareness, reflection, and personal growth with deep intention from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Time 100 Creator, meditator, and modern poet Yung Pueblo, one of...
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Regular price $38.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $38.00Letters in Exile
Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer
Letters in Exile
Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer
A collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a...
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Regular price $19.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.99Lift Every Voice
(Pre-order, July 14 2026)
Lift Every Voice
(Pre-order, July 14 2026)
From award-winning poet and novelist Phillip B. Williams, an astonishing new collection that revels in the possibility of creating one's own lightCaptivating for both its...
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Mermaid Theory
Poems
From an award-winning, innovative poet, a bold reimagination of Arab American womanhood in the modern military age In her second full-length collection, Maya Salameh offers...
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Regular price $18.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.99Minor Notes
Volume 2 (Pre-order, March 30 2027)
Minor Notes
Volume 2 (Pre-order, March 30 2027)
The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past,...
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My Brown Boy
An affirming picture book that celebrates the brilliance and power of brown and Black boys to achieve their dreams, from poet and activist Leslé Honoré...
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A Poem
New and Collected Hell
A Poem
Shane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary...
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Night Owl Poems
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the...
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Night Watch
Poems
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • From the award-winning poet...
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S O S
Poems 1961-2013
One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED WORK Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse,...
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SOULMATE AS A VERB
Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE...
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Regular price $24.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.99Sold outTaking the Arrow Out of the Heart
WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work *Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel...
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Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $22.95The Arrivants
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
The Arrivants
(Pre-order, July 7 2026)
Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants--containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)--a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet...
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Regular price $19.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.99The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition
1968-1998
From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998! “Nikki Giovanni...
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