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• Well-read Black Girl

  Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves : An Anthology

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  An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

• African American Poetry

  250 Years of Struggle & Song

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  A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Of Poetry & Protest

  From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

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  This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

  a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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  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. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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  Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

  An Immigrant Mother's Quest

  Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-

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  Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Love a Country

  Poems

  Blanco, Richard, 1968-

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  The diverse poems in this collection form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse Nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Carry Water

  Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

  Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010

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  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. These poems celebrating black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Big Bully

  Erdrich, Heid E. (Heid Ellen)

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  Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Floaters

  Poems

  Espada, Martín, 1957-

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  From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  Hayes, Terrance

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  In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. These poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares.

• Eyes With Winged Thoughts

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006

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  In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems reflecting on his long and extraordinary life offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funeral Diva

  Sneed, Pamela

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  In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on black queer life, and highlights the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monument

  Poems : New and Selected

  Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-

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  Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone--Natasha Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, her first retrospective…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown

  Poems

  Young, Kevin, 1970-

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  James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: the recently National Book Award-longlisted author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On This Side of the Desert

  Aguilar, Alfredo, 1991-

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  This debut book of poetry describes the experience of being raised in southern California as a child of Mexican immigrants in the shadow of the borderlands. Just as the borderlands are defined by the desert, so, too, are its inhabitants…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pilgrim Bell

  Poems

  Akbar, Kaveh

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  With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Owed

  Bennett, Joshua (Poet)

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  Bennett's new collection, Owed, is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Negotiations

  Poems

  Birdsong, Destiny O., 1981-

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  What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in…Read moreRead more of this annotation