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We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage By Hala Alyan, Zeina Hashem Beck Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780892555673
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Published: Persea - September 12th, 2023

This landmark anthology gathers together almost two-hundred vibrant English-language love poems by living writers of Arab descent.


Hand in Hand with Love: An anthology of queer classic poetry By Simon Avery (Editor) Cover Image
By Simon Avery (Editor)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781529092660
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Published: Macmillan Collector's Library - May 23rd, 2023

Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, featuring an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen and many more.


Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology By Julie E. Bloemeke (Editor), Dustin Brookshire (Editor) Cover Image
By Julie E. Bloemeke (Editor), Dustin Brookshire (Editor)
$20.95
ISBN: 9781956440515
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Published: Madville Publishing LLC - January 17th, 2023

Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets' takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world-calling in Dolly's impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy.


Suddenly We (Wesleyan Poetry) By Evie Shockley Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780819500458
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Published: Wesleyan University Press - March 7th, 2023

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"


From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] By Craig Santos Perez Cover Image
$22.95
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ISBN: 9781632431189
Published: Omnidawn - April 5th, 2023

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, this collection of experimental and visual poems dives into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.
 
This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and th


Promises of Gold By José Olivarez, David Ruano (Translated by) Cover Image
By José Olivarez, David Ruano (Translated by)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781250878496
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - February 14th, 2023

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR

“How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love—but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.”


I'm Always So Serious By Karisma Price Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781956046045
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Published: Sarabande Books - February 14th, 2023

"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, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New
York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural


Quiet: Poems By Victoria Adukwei Bulley Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593535646
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Published: Knopf - February 28th, 2023

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of “quiet” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.


Dear Outsiders: Poems By Jenny Sadre-Orafai Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781629222387
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Published: University of Akron Press - March 7th, 2023

Set in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents' deaths while trying to simultaneously forget and remember them. Dear Outsiders explores how we are part of and stranger to our environments and to our families and how identities form by where and who we come from.


Feast By Ina Cariño Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781948579315
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Published: Alice James Books - March 7th, 2023

Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry

Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award


Cruel/Cruel By Dior J. Stephens Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781643621586
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Published: Nightboat Books - March 14th, 2023

A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity.


Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls By Kai Cheng Thom Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593594988
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - August 1st, 2023

A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”

“Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed


The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals By Mimi Tempestt Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780872869257
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Published: City Lights Books - October 3rd, 2023

One of Publisher's Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall 2023

the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens.


Here, at the end. By Alice Teeter Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781665306140
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Published: Booklogix - March 20th, 2023

Alice Teeter's Book of Revelations is gentle and brutal, devoid of the supernatural and full of nature. Her poetry gives us a recipe, a warning, a hint at what is to come. Somehow she scares us and reassures us at the same time.

- Franklin Abbott, poet and psychotherapist



$20.00
SKU: 9798987249925A

Little Houses By Athena Nassar Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781951979393
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Published: Sundress Publications - January 10th, 2023

Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems By Anastacia-Renee Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063221710
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Published: Amistad - March 14th, 2023

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives.


Calligraphies: Poems By Marilyn Hacker Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324036463
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today” (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times).


God Themselves By Jae Nichelle Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781524878405
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - March 14th, 2023

Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space.

Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring poetry.


Rose Quartz: Poems By Sasha Taqwsəblu Lapointe Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571315434
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Published: Milkweed Editions - March 14th, 2023

A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing--and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.


My Dear Comrades By Sunu P. Chandy Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781646033195
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Published: Regal House Publishing - March 28th, 2023

In this poetry collection, Sunu P. Chandy includes stories about her experiences as a woman, civil rights attorney, parent, partner, daughter of South Asian immigrants, and member of the LGBTQ community. These poems cover themes ranging from immigration, social justice activism, friendship loss, fertility challenges, adoption, caregiving, and life during a pandemic.


Above Ground By Clint Smith Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316543033
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - March 28th, 2023

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood,


Spoken Word: A Cultural History By Joshua Bennett Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780525657019
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Published: Knopf - March 28th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion


I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems By Taylor Byas Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9781593767419
Published: Soft Skull - August 22nd, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award
Shortlisted for the CHIRBy Awards

Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman’s quest for self-discovery—one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power


No Sweet Without Brine: Poems By Cynthia Manick Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063244306
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Published: Amistad - April 4th, 2023

Voted one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library, Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.


Standing in the Forest of Being Alive By Katie Farris Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781948579322
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Published: Alice James Books - April 4th, 2023

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humor and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject.


Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems By Kweku Abimbola Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781644452271
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Published: Graywolf Press - April 4th, 2023

In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy.


More Sure By A. Light Zachary Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781551529172
Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - April 4th, 2023

A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives.


The Heiress/Ghost Acres By Lightsey Darst Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781566896733
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Published: Coffee House Press - April 11th, 2023

In her most intimate poetry collection yet, Lightsey Darst considers the many facets of maternal power and whether it might guide us toward healing in the wake of history's horrors.


Date of Birth: Poems By Shawn R. Jones Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780892555697
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Published: Persea - April 11th, 2023

Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, haunting vignettes of people betrayed by family and American society.


Heirloom By Ashia Ajani Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781949342499
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Published: Write Bloody Publishing - April 18th, 2023

Ashia Ajani's Heirloom stands as a poetic homage to the profound legacy of her family's migration journey - a path traversing from Bentonia, Mississippi to Detroit, Michigan, and finally to Denver, Colorado.


A Working Life By Eileen Myles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780802161895
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Published: Grove Press - April 18th, 2023

From "one of the essential voices in American poetry" (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a "Working Life" unerringly captures the measure of life.


Transpoethicalbody: A Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry By Tiely Santos, Bruna Barros (Translator), Jess Oliveira (Translator) Cover Image
By Tiely Santos, Bruna Barros (Translator), Jess Oliveira (Translator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9798987277607
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Published: Amefrica Press - June 2nd, 2023

A Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry, is a sensorial invitation. Through its poetry, we are transported to non-normative erotic dimensions through the dissident perspective of the author. Tiely calls us to trans*verse our bodies from other perspectives, stripping ourselves of the handcuffs that inhabit our intimacy, and determine our desires.


The Shared World: Poems By Vievee Francis Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780810145191
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Published: TriQuarterly - April 17th, 2023

The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the perception and inconvenient truth of Black woman as mother—with or without child.


Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking: Poems By Sadie McCarney Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781770417366
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Published: Misfit Book - April 18th, 2023

Sadie McCarney's Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence.


Freedom House By Kb Brookins Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781646052639
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Published: Deep Vellum Publishing - June 6th, 2023

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.


Remedies for Disappearing By Alexa Patrick Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781642599138
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Published: Haymarket Books - June 6th, 2023

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker's experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.


Gay Poems for Red States By Willie Edward Taylor Carver Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780813198125
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - June 6th, 2023

Negative Money By Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781593767532
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Published: Soft Skull - June 27th, 2023

Finalist for the New England Book Award

From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins


Because You Were Mine By Brionne Janae Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781642599121
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Published: Haymarket Books - July 4th, 2023

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival.


Binded By H. Warren Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781597099318
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Published: Boreal Books - July 11th, 2023

H Warren's (they/them) debut collection, Binded, explores the nonbinary body and the courage it takes to heal and exist in the world today.


So to Speak (Penguin Poets) By Terrance Hayes Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780143137726
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Published: Penguin Books - July 18th, 2023

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead—to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your Language


The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition By Lucille Clifton, Ross Gay (Foreword by), Sidney Clifton (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Lucille Clifton, Ross Gay (Foreword by), Sidney Clifton (Afterword by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9781556596780
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - August 29th, 2023

Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Paige Lewis (Editor), Joy Harjo (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Paige Lewis (Editor), Joy Harjo (Contribution by)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781956046168
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Published: Sarabande Books - October 24th, 2023

An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis.


The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine By Kaveh Akbar, Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Kaveh Akbar, Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780241391594
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Published: Penguin Classics - September 12th, 2023

An inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet Kaveh Akbar

A Penguin Classic


Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle By Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman (Translated by), Christopher Soto (Foreword by), Tatiana Marroquín (Foreword by), Barbara Paschke (Translated by) Cover Image
By Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman (Translated by), Christopher Soto (Foreword by), Tatiana Marroquín (Foreword by), Barbara Paschke (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781644211762
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Published: Seven Stories Press - September 12th, 2023

“His prolific artistic production, cut off at the age of forty, remains a monumental artifact . . . illustrating his profound conviction that the poet can and must, in his life as well as in his work, serve as the finely-honed scalpel of change, both in word and deed.” —Claribel Alegría
 


The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal By James Crews, Nikita Gill (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Crews, Nikita Gill (Foreword by)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781635866445
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - September 12th, 2023

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.

James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presen


Sex Augury By C. Bain Cover Image
By C. Bain
$17.95
ISBN: 9781636281322
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Published: Red Hen Press - September 26th, 2023

Sex Augury is a collection of radical, trans poems which practice divination with the symbolism of our changed and changeable world.


Fox Woman Get Out! By India Lena González, Aracelis Girmay (Foreword by) Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781950774982
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Published: BOA Editions - September 12th, 2023

Take the body and split it wide open. Fill it with light.


Poem Bitten by a Man By Brian Teare Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643622101
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Published: Nightboat Books - September 26th, 2023

Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived in devotion to poetry and visual art.A medical emergency, a road trip, a breakup, and a paean to the power of creative process--Poem Bitten by a Man is for everyone who has tried against t


Fire-Rimmed Eden By Lynn Lonidier, Julie R. Enszer (Editor) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781944981624
Published: Sinister Wisdom, Inc - September 5th, 2023

Fire-Rimmed Eden: Selected Poems gathers poems from Lynn Lonidier's rich and varied collections.


The Beloved Community By Patricia Spears Jones Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781556596667
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - September 26th, 2023

Dedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees Jones at her best as she writes toward and in search of all that connects and disconnects us.

In her fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, Jackson Poetry Prize winner Patricia Spears Jones interrogates the necessity and fragility of human bonds: sensual, familial, societa


Time Is a Mother By Ocean Vuong Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593300251
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Published: Penguin Books - June 6th, 2023

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post


How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
 


The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On By Franny Choi Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063240094
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Published: Ecco - November 7th, 2023

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick 

One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"

A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist


Best Barbarian: Poems By Roger Reeves Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324064459
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 22nd, 2023

Winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
A New York Times Notable Book


Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems By Louise Glück Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780374606480
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 11th, 2022

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes


Gossypiin By Ra Malika Imhotep Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781636280257
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Published: Red Hen Press - April 12th, 2022

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 to induce labor, cure reproductive ailments and end unwanted pregnancies.


Alive at the End of the World By Saeed Jones, D. a. Powell (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Saeed Jones, D. a. Powell (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9781566896511
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Published: Coffee House Press - September 13th, 2022

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.


All the Blood Involved in Love By Maya Marshall Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781642596953
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Published: Haymarket Books - June 28th, 2022

Maya Marshall is a formidable emerging poet. With this debut, she joins a vital literary heritage of Black poets whose stewardship rivals their written contributions. Comparable titles: The Black Unicorn Audre Lorde; Seeing The Body Rachel Eliza Griffths, Horsepower Joy Priest, etc.


The Hurting Kind By Ada Limón Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781639550494
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Published: Milkweed Editions - May 10th, 2022

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Lim oacute;n."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Lim n. "I am the hurting kind." What does it mean to be the hurting kind?


The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy By James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9781635865332
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - April 12th, 2022

Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print)James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto R&iacute


Girls That Never Die: Poems By Safia Elhillo Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593229484
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Published: One World - July 12th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children 

“Incredibly moving . . . Every single poem is stellar.”—Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger


To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness By Robin Coste Lewis Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781524732585
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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

A genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration—another revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. • Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry


We Are Changed to Deer in the Broken Place By Kelly Weber Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781946482808
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Published: Tupelo Press - December 1st, 2022

This collection considers what it means to be a queer nonbinary daughter in search of mother and myth as refuges. Inhabiting and breaking inherited forms like the sonnet, the speaker rewrites mythology to find new possibilities of queer transformation within inherited traditions-in which bodies not only change to trees and deer to escape the cishet male gaze, but also break the gaze itself.


Still Water: Poems By Jewelle Gomez Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781735906539
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Published: Blf Press LLC - June 7th, 2022

African American, Cabo Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway all converge in Jewelle Gomez's exquisite collection of poetry that explores the legacies of family heritage, history, and identity. Gomez contemplates her sexuality, multi-ethnic and class identities, and what it means to experience love, loss, grief, friendship, and solidarity with other women during times of political upheaval.


Stemmy Things By Imogen Xtian Smith Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643621500
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Published: Nightboat Books - October 18th, 2022

FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.


Togetherness By Wo Chan Cover Image
By Wo Chan
$17.95
ISBN: 9781643621449
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Published: Nightboat Books - September 20th, 2022

WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

Finalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry

A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence.


Magnolia: Poems By Nina Mingya Powles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781953534217
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Published: Tin House Books - August 16th, 2022

A SPIN, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and The Catholic Post Best Poetry Collection of 2022

Finalist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize & Forward Prize for Best First Collection

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year

A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Month


Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency By Chen Chen Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781950774692
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Published: BOA Editions - September 13th, 2022

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic.


Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems By Warsan Shire Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593134351
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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire

“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist


The Study of Human Life (Penguin Poets) By Joshua Bennett Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - September 20th, 2022

Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award

An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood


Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems By Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9781478016625
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Published: Duke University Press - October 18th, 2022

Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labors of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.


Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 (Wesleyan Poetry) By Irena Klepfisz Cover Image
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Published: Wesleyan University Press - December 6th, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)
Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)


Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology By Michael Walsh (Editor) Cover Image
By Michael Walsh (Editor)
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Published: Autumn House Press - May 11th, 2022

An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries.
 
This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry.


Concentrate: Poems By Courtney Faye Taylor Cover Image
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Published: Graywolf Press - November 1st, 2022

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths


Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years By Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by)
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 1st, 2022

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.


Look at This Blue By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Cover Image
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Published: Coffee House Press - March 29th, 2022

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry

Winner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award

Finalist for the 2023 Firecracker Award

Finalist for the 2023 ASLE Creative Book Award


Two Brown Dots By Danni Quintos, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Foreword by) Cover Image
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Published: BOA Editions - April 12th, 2022

Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems.


Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry By David Ly (Editor), Daniel Zomparelli (Editor) Cover Image
By David Ly (Editor), Daniel Zomparelli (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781551529011
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - October 4th, 2022

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society.


Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry) By No'u Revilla Cover Image
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 9th, 2022

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between "seed" and "summit" of a life--the body, a people, their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiians--and it does not let readers look away.


The Collection Plate: Poems By Kendra Allen Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - August 9th, 2022

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice 


Gumbo Ya Ya: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) By Aurielle Marie Cover Image
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - September 21st, 2021

Winner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual PoetryWinner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry)Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South.


Magnified (Wesleyan Poetry) By Minnie Bruce Pratt Cover Image
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Published: Wesleyan University Press - March 2nd, 2021

Once in a blue moon, a love like this comes along


Reparations Now! By Ashley M. Jones Cover Image
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Published: Hub City Press - September 7th, 2021

Reparations Now asks for what's owed.


Perfect Black By Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney (Foreword by), Ronald W. Davis (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney (Foreword by), Ronald W. Davis (Illustrator)
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Published: University Press of Kentucky - August 3rd, 2021

Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and prose about girlhood, racism, and political awakening, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia.


The Renunciations: Poems By Donika Kelly Cover Image
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 4th, 2021

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary


Mutiny (Penguin Poets) By Phillip B. Williams Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780143136934
Published: Penguin Books - September 7th, 2021

Winner of the 2022 American Book Award
Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 
Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by The Boston Globe and Lit Hub


You Better Be Lightning By Andrea Gibson Cover Image
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Published: Button Poetry - November 9th, 2021

2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner
2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner
2022 Over the Rainbow Short List
2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist
2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights


Rifqa By Mohammed El-Kurd, Aja Monet (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Mohammed El-Kurd, Aja Monet (Foreword by)
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Published: Haymarket Books - October 12th, 2021

Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'


The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void By Jackie Wang Cover Image
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Published: Nightboat Books - February 2nd, 2021

Jackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.


Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat By Khalisa Rae Cover Image
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Published: Red Hen Press - April 12th, 2021

Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat is an honest incantation and a forthright song to women of color grappling with the ever-present horrors and histories of the South.


Iron Goddess of Mercy By Larissa Lai Cover Image
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - April 13th, 2021

Iron Goddess of Mercyby Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now.


There Are Trans People Here By H. Melt Cover Image
By H. Melt
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Published: Haymarket Books - November 16th, 2021

There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.


Like We Still Speak (Etel Adnan Poetry Series) By Danielle Badra Cover Image
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Published: University of Arkansas Press - October 29th, 2021

Winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.


Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry By Joy Harjo (Editor), Carla D. Hayden (Foreword by), The Library of Congress (With) Cover Image
By Joy Harjo (Editor), Carla D. Hayden (Foreword by), The Library of Congress (With)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780393867916
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 4th, 2021

A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today.


How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope By James Crews, Ross Gay (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Crews, Ross Gay (Foreword by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781635863864
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - March 23rd, 2021

An Indie Poetry Bestseller!

What the world needs now
– featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K.


New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims By Kazim Ali (Editor) Cover Image
By Kazim Ali (Editor)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781636280066
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Published: Red Hen Press - November 16th, 2021

The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry By Gary Jackson (Editor), Len Lawson (Editor), Cynthia Manick (Editor) Cover Image
By Gary Jackson (Editor), Len Lawson (Editor), Cynthia Manick (Editor)
$20.95
ISBN: 9781949467673
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Published: Blair - November 2nd, 2021

An anthology of poems and art exploring Afrofuturism, science fiction, and speculative fiction by Black writers and writers of color.


The Essential June Jordan By June Jordan, Jan Heller Levi (Editor), Christoph Keller (Editor) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781556596209
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - May 4th, 2021

Honored as a Best Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly


How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton By Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781950774159
Published: BOA Editions - September 21st, 2021

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 poems that have never been collected.


Divining Poets: Clifton: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press By Lucille Clifton, Tracy K. Smith (Selected by), David Trinidad (Editor) Cover Image
By Lucille Clifton, Tracy K. Smith (Selected by), David Trinidad (Editor)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781933527499
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Published: Turtle Point Press - November 9th, 2021

Plainspoken, empowering, spare, wise beyond measure, Clifton's words are a balm and a force of good for all: "The surest failure / is the unattempted walk."


Dearly: New Poems By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063032507
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Published: Ecco - November 2nd, 2021

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood


African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology By Kevin Young (Editor) Cover Image
By Kevin Young (Editor)
$45.00
ISBN: 9781598536669
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Published: Library of America - October 20th, 2020

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present


Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution By Red Poppy, Julia Alvarez (Introduction by), Mark Eisner (Editor), Tina Escaja (Editor) Cover Image
By Red Poppy, Julia Alvarez (Introduction by), Mark Eisner (Editor), Tina Escaja (Editor)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781951142070
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Published: Tin House Books - September 15th, 2020

“To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” —from the introduction by Julia Alvarez


We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics By Andrea Abi-Karam (Editor), Kay Gabriel (Editor) Cover Image
By Andrea Abi-Karam (Editor), Kay Gabriel (Editor)
$22.95
ISBN: 9781643620336
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Published: Nightboat Books - November 24th, 2020

2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature


When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry By Joy Harjo (Editor), LeAnne Howe (With), Jennifer Elise Foerster (With) Cover Image
By Joy Harjo (Editor), LeAnne Howe (With), Jennifer Elise Foerster (With)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780393356809
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 25th, 2020

Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through"

United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology.


An American Sunrise: Poems By Joy Harjo Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 18th, 2020

A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.


Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems By Natalie Diaz Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781644450147
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 3rd, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award


Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts By Nikky Finney Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780810142015
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Published: TriQuarterly - April 15th, 2020

Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry

Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life.


Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver By Mary Oliver Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - November 10th, 2020

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club