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Furious Flower
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed,...
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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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Punching the Air
“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...
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Ain't Never Not Been Black
Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways.Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson...
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Domestic Work
Poems
Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of Bellocq's Ophelia and Domestic Work, has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in The Best...
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Life on Mars: Poems
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors'...
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The Poet X
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina,...
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Warrior Poet
A Biography of Audre Lorde
Warrior Poet
A Biography of Audre Lorde
Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" (Choice) biography of...
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Edited by Roxane Gay
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Edited by Roxane Gay
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black,...
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Like a Bird
"There was something powerful in being seen." Taylia Chatterjee has never known love, and certainly has never felt it for herself. Growing up on the...
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Finna
Poems
Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety...
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Citizen
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine's boldly recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming...
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The Book of Delights
Essays
The Book of Delights
Essays
In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The...
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Just Us
An American Conversation
Just Us
An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation―Just Us urges all of us into it.As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might...
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Hindsight
The debut poetry chapbook from Trae Harris, with photography by Shan Wallance, explores the understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened...
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Voyage of the Sable Venus
& Other Poems
Voyage of the Sable Venus
& Other Poems
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a meditation on the Black female figure through time.Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that...
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Homie
Poems
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out...
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Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
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...
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Take Three Strands and Make A Beach Out Of Sand: A Zine
A long poem detailing the long process of a young narrator getting her hair braided. A limited-edition zine by Imani Love. Treat with love, share...
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Sister Love
The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker
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The Letters of 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...
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded—a...
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How To Cure a Ghost
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness. Following in the footsteps of such category...
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Love Poems
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial...
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou's unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in this powerful ode to courage Shadows on the wallNoises down the...
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