The Collection Plate: Poems
By: Kendra Allen
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly …
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1. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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2. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- african american
- race
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
3. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- african american
- race
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
4. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
5. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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- audiobook
"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
6. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
7. The Ghosts of Rose Hill
By: R.M. Romero
3.98
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Magic will burn you up. Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an a… read more
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"PS I know I can always count on your silence. It's my own I'm not used to."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"The kiss lasts for his lifetime and my unfolding one. It reaches lives we haven't lived yet, and all the ones we've forgotten."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"In a house full of children, there are always bangs, clatters, shrieks of delight and dismay. Just because the kids here are dead doesn't make them an exception."-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
"I lay a dress on the white sheets, and see the monster nod his approval. A girl who intends to run doesn't bring a wardrobe with her. (But a girl who intends to fight does.)"-R.M. Romero, The Ghosts of Rose Hill
8. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
9. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- african american
- race
10. What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
By: Desiree C. Bailey
4.41
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a… read more
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- poetry
11. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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- poetry
"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
12. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- african american
- race
"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
13. Field Music
By: Alexandria Hall
3.81
Format: 128 pages, ebook
A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warr… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
14. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Butterfly Bruises
By: S. Palmer Smith
4.25
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Smith's debut collection consists of 80 poems and several short stories. It is a meditation on misc… read more
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- poetry
"The snow glistened upon the hazy glass of the Italian diner window when she said, “We’re adults now. We will lose friends."-S. Palmer Smith, The Butterfly Bruises
"2001, NOKIA CELLPHONE His first cellphone was slipped into his hands on September 12th, 2001. The cover was the American Flag. “It’s just... in case of emergency,"-S. Palmer Smith, The Butterfly Bruises
"Earth has begun to unravel. Her back is bone-weary from carrying us. Watch her spine ache, vertebrae by vertebrae, depleted of her original stone-born shell. She drinks her ocean water, but she heave…"-S. Palmer Smith, The Butterfly Bruises
"There isn’t much to say about someone who has been absent but then flows back into your brain slowly. Actually, maybe there is. There is a lot to say about you and how I love and hate you, and how I …"-S. Palmer Smith, The Butterfly Bruises
16. Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more
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- audiobook
17. Daylight
By: Roya Marsh
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for s… read more
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- poetry
- race
- audiobook
18. The Collection Plate: Poems
By: Kendra Allen
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly … read more
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- audiobook
- poetry
- african american
- race
19. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning… read more
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20. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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- audiobook
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- african american
- race
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
