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Crying in LA
Sapphic Longing in Tongues and Tears
Crying in LA
Sapphic Longing in Tongues and Tears
Crying in LA: Sapphic Longing in Tongues and Tears is an emboldened, Afrocentric collection of poetry that explores Black sapphic love, uncertainty, and loss through metaphors...
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Startlement
New and Selected Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 30 2025)
Startlement
New and Selected Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 30 2025)
An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers. Drawing from six previously...
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Essential Poems by Pat Parker
(Pre-Order, Oct 14 2025)
Essential Poems by Pat Parker
(Pre-Order, Oct 14 2025)
Renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer Pat Parker wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime, Jonestown & Other Madness, Movement in Black, Womanslaughter, Pit...
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Foremother Love
Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism (Pre-Order, July 31 2025)
Foremother Love
Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism (Pre-Order, July 31 2025)
In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. Murphy establishes Phillis (as...
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Death of the First Idea
Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 9 2025)
Death of the First Idea
Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 9 2025)
From Whiting Award–winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic...
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The Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folk
(Pre-Order, Jan 13 2026)
The Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folk
(Pre-Order, Jan 13 2026)
A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance. One of the most important writers...
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The New Negro
(Pre-Order, Feb 26 2026)
The New Negro
(Pre-Order, Feb 26 2026)
We have to-morrowBright before usLike a flame The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together...
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Shade is a place
(Pre-Order, Nov 4 2025)
Shade is a place
(Pre-Order, Nov 4 2025)
From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a "startlingly original debut" (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property,...
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The People's Project
Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward (Pre-Order, Sept 9 2025)
The People's Project
Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward (Pre-Order, Sept 9 2025)
A liberatory anthology of twenty-six writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie...
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Essex Hemphill
Take Care of Your Blessings (Pre-Order, Aug 26 2025)
Essex Hemphill
Take Care of Your Blessings (Pre-Order, Aug 26 2025)
Exploring the interdisciplinary relationship between the writings of the queer, Black poet and activist Essex Hemphill and contemporary visual artAccompanying the eponymous exhibition at the...
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving...
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Life of the Party
(Pre-Order, April 21 2026)
Life of the Party
(Pre-Order, April 21 2026)
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Life of the Party is an archive and annotation...
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Strange Beach
Poems
A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform—across oceans and within relationships—told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens. At times surreal, at...
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The Intentions of Thunder
New and Selected Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 30 2025)
The Intentions of Thunder
New and Selected Poems (Pre-Order, Sep 30 2025)
“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” —Danez Smith, The GuardianThe Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the...
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Truth Is
(Pre-Order, Sep 23 2025)
Truth Is
(Pre-Order, Sep 23 2025)
From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in which a teen poet grapples with an unplanned...
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Pig
Poems
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a...
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Find Me When You're Ready
Poems
A powerful debut and a lyric coming-of-age narrative that interrogates the myths we carry. In Find Me When You're Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey...
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Vintage Hughes
The perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of...
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What Had Happened Was
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life,...
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Lost Songs of Nina Simone
Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible...
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Archive of Desire
A poem in four parts for C. P. Cavafy (Pre-Order, Oct 7 2025)
Archive of Desire
A poem in four parts for C. P. Cavafy (Pre-Order, Oct 7 2025)
The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of...
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Wash
WASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart's praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a...
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We Now Belong to Ourselves
Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black...
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This Unruly Witness
June Jordan's Legacy (Pre-Order, Nov 11 2025)
This Unruly Witness
June Jordan's Legacy (Pre-Order, Nov 11 2025)
A collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writings on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy and the "sacred continuance" of her work as poet, healer, and activist....
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