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The Accordion Years: A Memoir
The Accordion Years: A Memoir Quincy Troupe 9781644215876 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The poet and journalist Quincy Troupe has told the stories of many people before, often to ...
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe are renowned figures in their respective fields, pictured here alongside Margaret Porter-Troupe. Photo by Home Slice. Earl Monro...
Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe 0000000376418772 Quincy Troupe, born in 1939, is an award-winning author, recognized for his poetry, children's books, and non-fiction works. His notable titles include a memoir of Earl...
Choruses: Poems
Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Chris Gardner is a renowned author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, best known for his autobiography “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Quincy Troupe is a ce...
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Miles Davis, renowned jazz musician, and Quincy Troupe, acclaimed author, captured on photo by Jon Stevens. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe (Photo by Jon Steve...
ErranaçIties
ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566891356 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Qu...
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018 Quincy Troupe 9780810139046 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe’s Seduction, the "I" becomes the "...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer Quincy Troupe 9780810138995 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what woul...
Quincy Rules
Quincy Rules DuEwa M. Frazier 9781533279835 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Imagine receiving mysterious letters and cards with no return address, only colorful stamps from all around the...
The Architecture of Language
The Architecture of Language Quincy Troupe 9781566891905 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “Troupe’s poems resemble Romare Bearden’s collages: muscular and colorful.”—North American Review ...
Little Stevie Wonder
Little Stevie Wonder Quincy Troupe 9780618340606 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Eleven-year-old Stevland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Mot...
Snake Back Solos
Snake Back Solos Quincy Troupe 9780918408112 Poetry Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Selected poems written 1969 - 1977 by African-American poet Quincy Troupe.
Earl The Pearl: My Story
Earl The Pearl: My Story Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe 9781609615611 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics,...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v6 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2015 “The Next Wave” ...
Avalanche
Avalanche Quincy Troupe 9781566890441 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.
Embryo
Embryo Quincy Troupe 9780879290207 Poetry Barlenmir House Barlenmir House Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state o...
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9780863161087 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
Duende
Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me Book Spotlights
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson Quincy Troupe 9780786805105 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
James Baldwin: The Legacy
James Baldwin: The Legacy Quincy Troupe 9780671676513 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baldwin, mentor to a generation of black artists and writers, is eulogized through essays and intervi...
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings Quincy Troupe 9780394714431 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Only for the Holidays
Only for the Holidays Abiola Bello 9781641297547 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy’s lives colliding a...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe Guy Sims 9780989281935 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment It’s Amazing! It’s Stupendous! It’s Deadly! Pennypincher’s Travelling ...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
Yvonne Bynoe
Yvonne Bynoe NONE Yvonne Bynoe is an acclaimed author, cultural critic, and founder of the popular online art platform, @SHELOVESBLACKART. She made her curatorial debut in 2022, focusing on lost or e...
Echo Brown
Echo Brown NONE Echo Brown is a renowned storyteller, author, and performer known for her one-woman show, 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters'. She's also the author of 'Black Girl Unlimited'. Echo f...
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak 9780820328706 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most ...
Paul Von Blum
Paul Von Blum NONE Paul Von Blum is a Senior Lecturer at UCLA with a rich history in African American Studies and Communication Studies. Since 1968, he has taught at UC Berkeley and UCLA. An esteemed...
Firesign, Poetry for the Free & Will Be
Firesign, Poetry for the Free & Will Be Jon B. Eckels B001UL928E Poetry San Jose Firesign Press San Jose Firesign Press “On a legalized day, Thanksgiving 1971, my friend Paola Barbieri introduced ...
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Nikki Giovanni 9781402210488 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess 0000000044353175 Congrats to Tyehimba Jess: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Tyehimba Jess, a Detroit native, is an award-winning poet and professor. His first book, Leadbelly, won ...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Nonfiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synth...
Shane W. Evans
Shane W. Evans 0000000038504360 Shane Evans is a renowned illustrator, artist and designer whose work has been recognized by The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and The Orbis Pictus Award. His illustrat...
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon 0000000363821597 Steve Cannon (1935-2019) was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and a prominent Black writer from New Orleans. He moved to NYC in 1962, where he engaged in literary...
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art Bernardine Evaristo 9781849767163 Nonfiction Tate Publishing (UK) Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Feminism by Booker Prize–winning author Bernardine Evarist...
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware 9780063272415 Nonfiction Harper Design HarperCollins “This can’t be real.” Surely, someone must have gotten carri...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...
Irene Luxbacher
Irene Luxbacher 0000000078506870 Irene Luxbacher is a renowned Canadian artist, author, and children's book illustrator. With degrees in Art History and Fine Art, she has gained acclaim through her a...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir Karla FC Holloway 9780813539072 Fiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press What are you reading? What books have been important to you? Wh...
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson Leda Schubert 9781499805925 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wil...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Kam Williams Interview Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Wesley T. Snipes is a globally celebrated actor, film producer, mas...
Chance Arradondo
Chance Arradondo NONE Chance Arradondo is a versatile writer, born in 1989 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes novels, poetry, short stories, and lyrics, inspired by his life experiences and love fo...
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program - Level 3
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program - Level 3 Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Tamra Stambaugh 9781593633523 Nonfiction Prufrock Press Prufrock Press The Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program...
Beatific Ambrosia: Love Poetry that Baptizes You into a Paradigm of Euphoria
Beatific Ambrosia: Love Poetry that Baptizes You into a Paradigm of Euphoria Marc Lacy 9780990795377 Poetry AVO Publishing AVO Publishing, LLC Beatific Ambrosia: Love Poetry that Baptizes You into a P...
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas Halima Taha 9780966035285 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Art enthusiasts and lovers of American art have long conside...
Greenwood Art Project
Greenwood Art Project NONE The Greenwood Art Project, an initiative of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre Centennial Commission, aims to unite Tulsa through art, raising awareness of Greenwood's history and the...
Tempted to Touch
Tempted to Touch Nigeria Lockley 9780996468701 Fiction Inheritance Books Inheritance Books Kira Seagram is frustrated by her husband Mason’s zeal for the Lord, so she pours all of her attention into...
Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson 0000000034051405 Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) was a free person of color and former indentured servant from New Hampshire. She authored the novel “Our Nig,” published anonymously i...
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Thumper Book Review Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris is an anthology aptly described by its title. The authors, Te...
She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven Adrienne Kennedy 9780573703959 Fiction Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, off...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa Malcolm X 9780873489621 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press This expanded edition includes four talks and a...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths 0000000527846142 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, a poet, photographer, and creative writing teacher, is renowned for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. She...
The Wonder of Words: A Parent’s Guide for Raising Children Who Read
The Wonder of Words: A Parent’s Guide for Raising Children Who Read Curtis L. Ivery 9781944068875 Nonfiction Micro Publishing Media Micro Publishing Media Dr. Ivery provides an insightful and eloquent...
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Keisha-Gaye Anderson NONE Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional, whose multi-platform storytelling has examined subjects like art, cult...
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion Antwaun Sargent 9781597114684 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curat...
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa Michael D. Harris 9780295979335 Nonfiction Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum of California "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exc...
Keith Mallett
Keith Mallett 0000000033964456 Keith Duncan Mallett, born in 1948, is a prominent artist trained in New York City. He spent 15 years as the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers and now works ...
Grace Aneiza Ali
Grace Aneiza Ali NONE Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator, Assistant Professor, and Provost Fellow at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She specializes in socially engaged art, global contemporary art, and C...
Halima Taha
Halima Taha NONE Halima Taha is a renowned advocate for African and African-American art, known for her educational initiatives and influential writings. Her contributions have spearheaded recognitio...
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad 0000000084052510 Suheir Hammad, born October 25, 1973, is a Palestinian-American poet, author, performer, and activist renowned for her work in the spoken-word scene. She's had success ...
The Black Bard Of North Carolina: George Moses Horton And His Poetry
The Black Bard Of North Carolina: George Moses Horton And His Poetry George Moses Horton 9780807846483 Poetry University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press For his humanistic r...
DEMIgOD: #allgodsmatter
DEMIgOD: #allgodsmatter Christopher Michael 9780998427010 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. If God is the same ye...
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry)
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry) Patricia Smith 9781566891936 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.“What power. Smith’s poe...
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa 000000011440862X Yusef Komunyakaa the first African American male to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa, born on April 29, 1947, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet recog...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones 0000000031494569 Patricia Spears Jones, born in Arkansas, is the 2024 New York State Poet Laureate, a Jackson Poetry Prize laureate, and a cultural activist. An esteemed poet, p...
Patrick M. Oliver
Patrick M. Oliver NONE Patrick Oliver is a program manager and literary consultant promoting literacy as empowerment. He hosts Literary Nation Talk Radio, is a publisher and editor, and has worked in...
Al B. Sure - “The Ultimate Merger” Interview
Al B. Sure - “The Ultimate Merger” Interview Kam Williams Interview Al. B. Sure Enough Loves Himself Some Omarosa Albert Joseph Brown, III was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 4, 1968 b...
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence Jay Wright 9781564784988 Poetry Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which...
Reading Black Books
Reading Black Books Claude Atcho 9781587435645 Nonfiction Brazos Press Baker Publishing Group Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts) Learning from Black voices means liste...
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing Marita Golden 9780767929912 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books...
April Sinclair
April Sinclair NONE April Sinclair, a Chicago native, is a renowned author and community activist. Known for her dedicated activism in Oakland and her unique approach to her literary debut, Sinclair'...
To Ensure a Bright Future, Your Teen Needs to be Reading
To Ensure a Bright Future, Your Teen Needs to be Reading Kam Williams Interview “To Ensure a Bright Future, Your Teen Needs to be Reading” Rhiannon Paille, Offers Tips for Getting Ad...
Bebop Books
Bebop Books Troy Johnson Article Bebop Books is currently accepting manuscripts for emergent readers with multicultural themes. Emergent readers are used by kindergarten and first-grade teachers ...
D-Knowledge
D-Knowledge NONE Writer/Performer Dr. Derrick Gilbert, PhD, a/k/a poet D-Knowledge, lost his battle with liver disease on Sunday morning, November 1, 2015. He was 45. Straddling the worlds of enter...
Phetote Mshairi
Phetote Mshairi NONE Phetote Mshairi is a multi-talented artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He's a poet, author, entrepreneur, performing artist, mentor, and more. With a B.B.A. in Business Management, Msh...
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures Brandon Taylor 9780593332368 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the Booker Prize Finalist and Bestselling Author: A Perceptive Novel About a Gay Black Painter Naviga...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348036 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing There is no one movie, song, or book that will make these troubled times d...
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780674919228 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A ...