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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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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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Jimmy's Blues
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James Baldwin All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James... BooksClassics
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The Study of Human Life
Joshua Bennett A third collection that reveals an acclaimed poet further extending his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition,... BooksPoetry
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Optic Subwoof
Douglas Kearney Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and... Best-SellersBooks
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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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Blackspace
On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Undercurrents)
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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July 14th EVENT: Girls That Never Die
Safia Elhillo w/ guests Fatimah Asghar, aja monet & Fariha Róisín
Reparations Club WHO & WHAT: An IRL & Virtual EVENT w/ award winning poet & author Safia Elhillo alongside readings from some very special guest poets: Fatimah Asghar (If... BooksEvents
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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis Twenty-five years ago, after her grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs - from tintypes to color Polaroids - under her... 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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Fables and Spells
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry (Emergent Strategy #5)
adrienne maree brown Visionary fiction and poetry from bestselling author adrienne maree brown. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown has launched a series... BooksFiction
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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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For Colored Girls
Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
Ntozake Shange In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play centering the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time... Best-SellersBooks
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Girls That Never Die
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Safia Elhillo In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the... BooksPoetry
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Good Woman
Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Lucille Clifton A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Killing Poetry
Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Javon Johnson In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of poetry. However,... ArtBooks
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Gossypiin
Ra Malika Imhotep This harvest of poems is inspired by the plant medicine latent in Gossypium Herbeceum, or Cotton Root Bark, which was used by enslaved Black women... BooksLGBTQIA+
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The How
Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
Yrsa Daley-Ward From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become Yrsa Daley-Ward's... BooksNon-Fiction
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Inheritance
A Visual Poem
Elizabeth Acevedo They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of... 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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The Sobbing School
Joshua Bennett The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose "astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable" (Tracy K. Smith)The Sobbing School, Joshua... Best-SellersBooks
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Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa's "30 Under 30" list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey... BooksFiction
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There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
Alice Walker Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world—and our place in it—through new eyes in this new... BooksChildren's
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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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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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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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Respect the MIC
Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School
Hanif Abdurraqib An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.... BooksPoetry
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Breath Better Spent
Living Black Girlhood
DaMaris B. Hill In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a... BooksPoetry
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Wild Beauty
New and Selected Poems
Ntozake Shange NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls... BooksPoetry
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Soul Culture
Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
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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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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Golden Ax
Rio Cortez A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her... BooksPoetry
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I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
Mahogany L. Browne Mahogany L. Browne's evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind.I Remember Death... BooksPoetry
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When Angels Speak of Love
bell hooks Icon of women's movement and author of over twenty books, including a narrative series on love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad... BooksClassics
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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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Gumbo Ya Ya: Poems
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Aurielle Marie Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls,... Best-SellersBooks
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Sweet People Are Everywhere
Alice Walker "The poetic stylings of Alice Walker will convince children across the world that Sweet People Are Everywhere... Children of all ages will be able to enjoy... BooksChildren's
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Olio
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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Motherland
Seattle Youth Poet Laureate #6
Bitaniya Giday The sixth collection in the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series, Motherland is a breathtaking exploration of womanhood and blackness framed by family, immigration, and history. Giday blends... BooksPoetry
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The New Negro Aesthetic
Selected Writings
Alain Locke Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic... BooksClassics
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Vinyl Moon
Mahogany L. Browne A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel... BooksFiction
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Blood on the Fog
Pocket Poets Series No. 62
Tongo Eisen-Martin A rhapsodic follow-up to Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven is All Goodbyes, this collection further explores themes of love and loss, family and faith, refracted through the lens... BooksPoetry
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Rifqa
Mohammed El-Kurd Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was... BooksHistory
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Chorus
A Literary Mixtape
Saul Williams An anthology of poetry by young people, edited by superstar poet and author of The Dead Emcee Scrolls and , said the shotgun to the head, Saul Williams.... BooksPoetry
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How to Love the World
Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more... BooksPoetry
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Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so... Autobiography & MemoirBest-Sellers
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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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The Future of Black
Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
Gary Jackson, Len Lawson, Cynthia Manick The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics’ characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a... ArtBooks
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My Darling from the Lions
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Rachel Long Each poem in Rachel Long’s award-winning My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell―of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion,... BooksPoetry
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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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Such Color
New and Selected Poems
Tracy K. Smith Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first... AntiracismBooks
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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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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace... BooksNon-Fiction
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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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Spill
Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Alexis Pauline Gumbs In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls... BooksNon-Fiction
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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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Lilith, but Dark
Nichole Perkins LILITH, BUT DARK reveals a series of confessions and penances, exploring a southern Black woman's tour through lover's lament. It explores intimacies from home to... BooksPoetry
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Honey, I Love
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Eloise Greenfield This award-winning poetry collection includes sixteen poems that tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life seen through the eyes of a child,... BooksChildren's
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Dreaming of You
A Novel in Verse
Melissa Lozada-Oliva A macabre novel in verse of loss, longing, and identity crises following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of... BooksFiction
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Thinker:
My Puppy Poet & Me
Eloise Greenfield A collection of poetry for kids from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield! Thinker isn't just an average puppy―he's a poet. So is... BooksChildren's
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