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Resting Bitch Face
An Audacious Book Club PickThe author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a new poetry collection that transforms the...
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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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Rose Quartz
Poems
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing--and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual. "Draw...
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Rosewater
Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in south London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days...
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Regular price $15.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $15.99Sold outSaid the Shotgun to the Head
The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of...
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Salvage the Bones
Winner of the National Book AwardJesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family...
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Sana Sana
After ten years of performing her spoken-word poetry, Ariana Brown gathers her favorite poems in her chapbook Sana Sana. With a tender and critical voice, she explores Black girlhood, the...
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Savings Time:
Poems
The Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing. what will come of what...
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Scorched Earth
The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the "beautiful, vulnerable, honest" (Ross Gay, New York Times bestselling author) I Can't Talk About the Trees Without...
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Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book...
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Regular price $18.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.00Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career. His...
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Regular price From $0.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $0.00Sep 24th EVENT: A Vessel Born to Float
Yazmin Monét Watkins + Dr. Melina Abdullah
Sep 24th EVENT: A Vessel Born to Float
Yazmin Monét Watkins + Dr. Melina Abdullah
WHO & WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with poet and multi-hyphenate, Yazmin Monét Watkins, as we discuss her debut poetry collection, A Vessel...
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Shade Is a Place
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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Regular price $16.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.00Shake Loose My Skin
Poems
Sold outShake Loose My Skin
Poems
An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Shake...
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She
Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this...
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Regular price $26.99Regular priceUnit price per$30.00Sale price $26.99Sing a Black Girl's Song
The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
SaleSing a Black Girl's Song
The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s literary...
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for the one who held you down this year
Regular price $15.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $15.95Sister Love
The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker
Sister Love
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...
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So to Speak
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead Since the publication of his first collection, Muscular Music, in...
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Something About Living
National Book Award: Longlist for Poetry It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest...
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Something, Someday
The stunning new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson You're told thatThis won't work,But how will you...
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Regular price $23.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $23.95Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, offers 2 books in one with this volume...
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Regular price $16.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.95Sonnets for a Missing Key
And Some Others
Sonnets for a Missing Key
And Some Others
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes...
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Regular price $26.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $26.95Soul Culture
Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Soul Culture
Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
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...
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Regular price $16.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.95SOULMATE AS A VERB
(Pre-order, Feb 24 2026)
SOULMATE AS A VERB
(Pre-order, Feb 24 2026)
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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