Poetry
Never Touch a Polar Bear
Publisher: Make Believe Ideas You must never touch a polar bear . . . unless it's in this book! This festive touch-and-feel board book is great for children of all ages and fits perfectly into tiny hands. Kids will love...
$9.99
The Cat in the Hat
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Have a ball with Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat in this classic picture book...but don't forget to clean up your mess!A dreary day turns into a wild romp when this...
$9.99
The Going to Bed Book
Publisher: Little Simon
Getting ready for sleep is tons of fun in this Sandra Boynton classic.The sun has set not long ago.Now everybody goes belowto take a bath in one big tubwith soap all over—SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB!
$5.99
Time for School, Little Blue Truck
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Ride along to school with the #1 New York Times best-selling Little Blue Truck and meet Blue's new friend: a bright yellow school bus. Beep-beep!Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus on the...
$18.99
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Nominated for an NAACP Image AwardA Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the seasonBooklist's Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the yearBookRiot's "50 Must-Read Poetry Collections"Most Anticipated Books of the Year--The Rumpus, Nylon
$25.00
A Fortune for Your Disaster
Publisher: Tin House Books “When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” ―Booklist, Starred...
$15.95
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
Publisher: Library of America A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los...
$45.00
Ain't Never Not Been Black
Publisher: Button Poetry Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways.Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly...
$16.00
Be Holding: A Poem
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardBe Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers....
$17.00
Black Girl, Call Home
Publisher: Berkley Books A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—VogueFrom spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about...
$15.00
Burning Sugar
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies....
$15.95
Cardinal
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Tyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”― the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye’s family and upbringing, which have been...
$16.00
Collected Poems
Publisher: Beacon Press A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation...
$29.95
Daylight: Poems
Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals This program is read by the author. dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of...
$15.00
Duende: Poems, 1966-Now
Publisher: Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It's the music you make with them...
$19.95
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon honkytonk,Wherever blues dare to travel.Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings...
$35.00
Field Study
Publisher: Fsg Originals Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets"Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others―a meditation on desire, race, loss and...
$16.00
Finna: Poems
Publisher: One World Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy“Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country...
$17.00
Funeral Diva
Publisher: City Lights Books Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry! A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,...
$16.95
Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat
Publisher: Red Hen Press "Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat is like a newborn scream that’s been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a celebration of language and rhythm, and...
$16.95