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A Fortune for Your Disaster
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how...
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Against Heaven
Poems
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...
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Regular price $29.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.95Black and Blur
(consent not to be a single being)
Black and Blur
(consent not to be a single being)
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful...
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Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $23.00Black Buffalo Woman
An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
Black Buffalo Woman
An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
This long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets—Lucille Clifton. Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive...
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Blessing the Boats
Winner of the National Book Award 2000. The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today. Lucille Clifton won the 2007...
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Chlorine Sky
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and...
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Chorus
A Literary Mixtape
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....
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Death of the First Idea
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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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99Essex Hemphill
Take Care of Your Blessings
Essex Hemphill
Take Care of Your Blessings
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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Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.00Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times (Pre-order, Nov 18 2025)
Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times (Pre-order, Nov 18 2025)
Tracy K. Smith is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United...
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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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Ghetto Koans
A Personal Archive
The Japanese word ' koan' is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal...
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God Themselves
Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space. Rising...
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Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00Good Weed Good Women
A Feminist Celebration of Cannabis (Pre-order, Apr 21 2026)
Good Weed Good Women
A Feminist Celebration of Cannabis (Pre-order, Apr 21 2026)
Women and weed—welcome to the revolution!A bold collection of writing and photos celebrating the women who have taken the weed industry by storm, from cannabis...
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Gossypiin
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...
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Regular price From $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $20.00How to Carry Water
Selected Poems
How to Carry Water
Selected Poems
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered...
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Imperial Liquor
Poems
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood...
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Regular price $17.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $17.95Intifadas
(Pre-order, April 21 2026)
Intifadas
(Pre-order, April 21 2026)
Winner of 2024 Sarabande 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Edward Salem's Intifadas is a subversive collection about Palestinian resistance, liberation and art Written across Palestine...
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Regular price $16.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.95Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Love Is a Dangerous Word
The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex...
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Regular price $18.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.99My Brown Boy
(Pre-order, Jan 13 2026)
My Brown Boy
(Pre-order, Jan 13 2026)
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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Native Guard
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South...
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Now & Then
Poems
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...
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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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for the homie with a big heart and moral clarity
Rifqa
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...
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