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The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers
Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new...
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Regular price $16.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.00I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
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...
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Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $20.00I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads...
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I'm Always So Serious
"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family,...
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I'm from
A poetic, heartwarming ode to the small, defining moments of a boy's life, by a brilliant new debut and a Caldecott Honoree. For fans of Last...
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Regular price $18.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.00I'm So Fine
A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
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A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Hybrid Genre. Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'M SO FINE:...
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If I Must Die
Poetry and Prose
"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and...
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If They Come for Us
Poems
an aunt teaches me how to tellan edible flowerfrom a poisonous one.just in case, I hear her say, just in case.From a co-creator of the...
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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 $28.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $28.99In a World of Sunrises
Heart, Soul & Hope Every Day (Pre-Order, April 7 2026)
In a World of Sunrises
Heart, Soul & Hope Every Day (Pre-Order, April 7 2026)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk comes an essential book of daily wisdom, a secular devotional designed to uplift and comfort readers across 365...
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Regular price $16.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $16.99In the Blood
Poems (Pre-order, March 17 2026)
In the Blood
Poems (Pre-order, March 17 2026)
A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.I am no mystic. I knownothing...
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Inheritance
A Visual Poem
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...
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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 $18.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $18.95It's In You
A Book For Big Dreamers
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A Book For Big Dreamers
★It All Starts With A Dream…★ Through playful rhyme, humor and dazzling illustrations, It’s In You inspires young readers to dream big and to follow their instincts. It uses...
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Regular price $15.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $15.95January Children
(African Poetry Book)
January Children
(African Poetry Book)
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets | 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are...
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Jimmy's Blues
and Other Poems
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 Baldwin...
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Regular price $17.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $17.99Joy in the Belly of a Riot:
Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
Joy in the Belly of a Riot:
Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine—the...
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Regular price From $0.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price From $0.00July 14th EVENT: Girls That Never Die
Safia Elhillo w/ guests Fatimah Asghar, aja monet & Fariha Róisín
Sold outJuly 14th EVENT: Girls That Never Die
Safia Elhillo w/ guests Fatimah Asghar, aja monet & Fariha Róisín
WHO & WHAT: An IRL & Virtual EVENT w/ award winning poet & author Safia Elhillo alongside readings from some very special guest poets: Fatimah Asghar (If...
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Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $30.00Just 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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Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $22.95Killing Poetry
Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
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Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
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,...
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Regular price $19.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $19.95Knees of a Natural Man
Selected Poems
Sold outKnees of a Natural Man
Selected Poems
"His work remains—a testimonial to his own committed love, his own sharp perceptiveness and zeal." — Gwendolyn Brooks In 1968, a young Black man,...
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Knucklehead
Poems
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted...
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Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $40.00Latino Poetry
The Library of America Anthology (LOA #382)
Latino Poetry
The Library of America Anthology (LOA #382)
This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to...
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Layla's Hapiness
★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner for Illustration★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Writing★ A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book...
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