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Death Does Not End at the Sea
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbenga Adesina's groundbreaking debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile,...
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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 $27.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $27.00Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire
The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens...
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Doggerel
Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...
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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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Don't Call Us Dead
Poems
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that...
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don't forget to breathe.
Poems
don't forget to breathe. is a collection of poems tethered to reflection-encouraging prompts, designed to be consumed slowly by the reader. A benevolent measure of...
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Doppelgangbanger
In his anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and...
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Down on the Bayou
From the award-winning creators of Ice Cream Man and Good Things comes a journey through the mystical world of the Louisiana Bayou. Follow along as a young boy learns...
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Dream of Europe
(1984-1992) edited by Mayra RodrÍguez Castro. Preface by Dagmar Schultz. AUDRE LORDE: DREAM OF EUROPE elucidates Lorde's methodology as a poet, mentor, and activist...
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A Novel in Verse
Dreaming of You
A Novel in Verse
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...
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Dub
Finding Ceremony
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a...
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Eb & Flow
A ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective. Don't miss this poignant novel in verse from the award-winning...
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Electric Arches
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic,...
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Elektrik
Caribbean Writing
In Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single...
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Essential Poems by Pat Parker
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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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99Essex Hemphill
Take Care of Your Blessings
Sold outEssex 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 $19.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.99Estela, Undrowning
(Pre-order, March 3 2026)
Estela, Undrowning
(Pre-order, March 3 2026)
In her raw and resonant debut novel, René Peña-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice,...
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Regular price From $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $20.00Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
New and selected poems from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon...
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Regular price $17.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $17.00Fables and Spells
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry (Emergent Strategy #5)
Fables and Spells
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry (Emergent Strategy #5)
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...
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Fanny Says
An “unleashed love song” to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown’s collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long...
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue
In his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the...
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Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $24.00Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Fear Less
Poetry in Perilous Times
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as...
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Safia Elhillo + Randa Jarrar
Sold outFeb 8th EVENT: Bright Red Fruit
Safia Elhillo + Randa Jarrar
WHO & WHAT: An IRL EVENT with award-winning author + poet, Safia Elhillo, as we celebrate her newest YA fiction novel in verse, Bright Red...
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