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Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems Robin Coste Lewis 9781101875438 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introdu...
The Sable Cloak
The Sable Cloak Gail Milissa Grant 9781538742006 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect the...
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events Robin Coste Lewis's Award winning book, "Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems" was published by Knopf. Learn More...
Venus & Serena
Venus & Serena Kam Williams venusandsernea-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Revealing Biopic Examines Roots and Rise of World-Class Williams Sisters Venus & Serena In Theaters:...
Un-Nappily in Love
Un-Nappily in Love Trisha R. Thomas 9781250623904 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Venus is ecstatic about her husband’s new career as a movie star thanks to a role in a searing roman...
Kadija Sesay
Kadija Sesay NONE Kadija George is a renowned literary activist, poet, and publisher of Sierra Leonean descent. She's known for her debut poetry collection, Irki, and has edited numerous anthologies....
The Venus Hottentot: Poems
The Venus Hottentot: Poems Elizabeth Alexander 9781555973926 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Elizabeth Alexander’s highly praised first collection is available once againI didn’t want to write a ...
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781481476843 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Husband-and-wife duo James E. Ransome and Lesa Cline-Ransom...
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams Howard Bryant 9780399169069 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus ...
Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome
Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome Venus Williams 9780063278233 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An inspiring and innovative guide towards living your best life—made easy—from Venus Williams, one of...
Would I Lie to You?
Would I Lie to You? Trisha R. Thomas 9781400049035 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House Spirited, successful Venus Johnston is back—in the long-awaited sequel to "Nappily Ever After. Venus feel...
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams?
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? James Buckley Jr. 9780515158038 Nonfiction Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Random House The dynamic story of the Williams sisters, both top-ranked professional tennis playe...
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams Jay Leslie 9781250307408 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A stirring picture book biography of Venus and Serena Williams...
Poisons We Drink
Poisons We Drink Bethany Baptiste 9781728251950 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks An Indie Bestseller! In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer maki...
Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina L. Love
Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina L. Love MULTIPLE Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina L. Love are renowned authors, focusing on educational equity, social justice and youth empowerment. Both have their wo...
Nappily about Us
Nappily about Us Trisha R. Thomas 9780983456018 Fiction Face Press Face Press Venus and Jake are the stars of their own reality show. The home becomes a battle ground for the stardom Jake craves and t...
Nappily Married
Nappily Married Trisha R. Thomas 9781250623874 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The sequel to Nappily Ever After, which is now a NETFLIX ORIGINAL movie starring Sanaa Lathan. Venus J...
Nappily Ever After
Nappily Ever After Trisha R. Thomas 9780609808986 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM STARRING SANAA LATHAN What happens when you toss tradition out the window and ...
Venus Williams
Venus Williams 0000000114587007 Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) became a professional tennis player at the remarkable age of fourteen, immediately making waves in the sport by defeat...
African Venus
African Venus Troy Johnson Book Review The sculpture, on the cover of Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord’s novel was created by artist by Charles Henri Joseph Cordier in 1851. Dubbed, by the artist, &ldquo...
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints Faye Thompson 9780996610179 Fiction Ultra Pearl Power Ultra Pearl Power Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints takes a scandalous peek inside the flawed flock of New York’s Church of the One ...
Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience
Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience Rebekah Weatherspoon 9780578592077 Fiction Rebekah Weatherspoon Rebekah Weatherspoon She just wanted to claim her inheritance. What she got was a husband… Xeni Eve...
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery Richard Murray Book Review Frederick Douglass once said, “The American Government and the American Constitution are spoken of in a manner ...
Natives of My Person
Natives of My Person George Lamming 9780385552202 Fiction Outsider Editions Penguin Random House George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard ...
Planet Venus (New True Books: Space (Paperback))
Planet Venus (New True Books: Space (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253656 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. Unlike most other planets, Venus can be seen from ...
Black and White: The Way I See It
Black and White: The Way I See It Richard Williams 9781476704210 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The fascinating, revealing, and in-depth memoir of Richard Williams, a self-made business...
Claudia Alexander
Claudia Alexander NONE Claudia Alexander, Ph.D., was a respected NASA scientist, studying planets and flying spacecraft. She contributed to missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and comets. An author, she wro...
The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology
The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology Caryl Phillips 9780375706462 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on te...
Husbands, Incorporated, Book One in the Husbands, Inc. Trilogy (Book One)
Husbands, Incorporated, Book One in the Husbands, Inc. Trilogy (Book One) Elizabeth Atkins 9780982141526 Fiction Sea Kingdom International Sea Kingdom International Husbands, Incorporated - Book One i...
Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord
Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord NONE Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord's novel is inspired by the story of the model for Charles Cordier's 1851 sculpture, “The African Venus.” The book explores the history of slavery in...
Marsha Hunt
Marsha Hunt 0000000117741647 Marsha Hunt, born 1946, is a British-based actress, singer, and novelist, best known for her role in the rock musical 'Hair'. She has written autobiographies and novels, ...
Hottentot Venus: A Novel
Hottentot Venus: A Novel Barbara Chase-Riboud 9781400032082 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed o...
Nappily Faithful
Nappily Faithful Trisha R. Thomas 9781250623881 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Hoping to get away from emotional baggage in Los Angeles, Venus and Jake move to Atlanta. Yet the cons...
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus Howard Zinn 9780807073261 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to ...
Postcards from Venus
Postcards from Venus Trisha R. Thomas 9780983456063 Fiction Face Press Face Press Venus has the chance of a lifetime to take a trip alone. No children, no husband. The women’s retreat promises daily m...
Venus
Venus Suzan-Lori Parks 9781559361354 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the l...
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon
Electronic Corpse (Contributor): Poems from a Digital Salon Yona Harvey 9780615954202 Poetry Svaha Paradox Paradox Publishing This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contributors o...
Love Poems
Love Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688149895 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America’s most ...
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951365 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelb...
All Souls: Essential Poems
All Souls: Essential Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807162002 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of histor...
Poems in the Attic
Poems in the Attic Nikki Grimes 9781620140277 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books During a visit to her grandma s house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mo...
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...
The 100 Best African American Poems
The 100 Best African American Poems Nikki Giovanni 9781402221118 Poetry Sourcebooks MediaFusion Sourcebooks Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nik...
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account Bartolomé de Las Casas 9780801844300 Nonfiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Five hundred years after Columbus’s first v...
The Lost German Slave Girl
The Lost German Slave Girl Paige Turner Book Review Only the great American melting pot could provide a setting where an Australian author recounts the tale of an orphaned German immigrant who was ...
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery Leah Schanke 9780807524282 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The true story of one man’s brave plan to free his family fr...
When the Wanderers Come Home
When the Wanderers Come Home Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 9780803288577 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press This anthology features collaboratively created poems by 84 contribut...
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse Langston Hughes 9780679728184 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Langston Hughes electrified readers and...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé Morgan Parker 9781941040539 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 One of Oprah Magazine’s "Ten Best Books o...
Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out Venus Evans-Winters and Bettina L. Love 9781433126048 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. In Black Feminism in...
Nappily in Bloom
Nappily in Bloom Trisha R. Thomas 9781250623911 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The final novel in the Nappily trilogy! Nappily Every After now a NETFLIX ORIGINAL movie starring Sana...
Richard Williams
Richard Williams 000000011450729X Richard Williams is a renowned tennis coach and father to tennis superstars, Venus and Serena Williams. Richard Williams is a tennis coach and the father tennis supe...
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings Salaam Green 9798990220874 Poetry Pulley Press Clyde Hill Publishing “The Other Revival is about restoring what history has overlooked. In a time when public memory i...
Nappily Entangled
Nappily Entangled Trisha R. Thomas 9780983456049 Fiction Face Press Face Press Venus wasn’t planning on falling for someone else. Her heart always belonged to Jake Parson, the enviable hot boy, starti...
African Venus
African Venus Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord 9781483617794 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions
Windows to Adventure: Venus, the Morning Star
Windows to Adventure: Venus, the Morning Star Claudia Alexander 9781937781224 Nonfiction Red Phoenix Books Red Phoenix Books
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011
Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974-2011 Barbara Chase-Riboud 9781609805944 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The long breath of Barbara Chase-Ribo...
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers
Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers Kwame Alexander 9781499364781 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC From Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medalist, a collection of poetry for young people. STA...
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems
Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780064430975 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An ALA Notable Children’s Book, Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems includes sixteen poems that tell ...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books)
Haruko/Love Poems (High Risk Books) June Jordan 9781852423230 Poetry Serpent’s Tail Serpent’s Tail For HarukoLittle moves on sight blinded by histories as trivial or expansive as the rain seducing lig...
A Book of Poems for Black Kings
A Book of Poems for Black Kings Fulterius King 9798991482202 Poetry Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing A Book of Poems for Black Kings is a profound and empowering anthology that speaks dir...
All the Names Given: Poems
All the Names Given: Poems Raymond Antrobus 9781951142926 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigatio...
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780679764083 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar—. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, ...
Selected Poems American Classics Edition
Selected Poems American Classics Edition Gwendolyn Brooks 9780063484238 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins “When Miss Brooks… writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of ...
Felon: Poems
Felon: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9780393652147 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a...
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink
The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink Kevin Young 9781608195510 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street ven...
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings Ted Joans 9781894800006 Poetry Ekstasis Editions Ekstasis Editions Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the...
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great Camille T. Dungy 9780892553488 Poetry Persea Books Persea Books An astounding comp...
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780060562861 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Celebrate the love of brothers and sisters everywhere with award-winning author Eloise Greenfield in t...
Darling: New & Selected Poems
Darling: New & Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these thing...
Girls from Da Hood 14
Girls from Da Hood 14 Treasure Hernandez 9781645561170 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Two Essence(R) bestselling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in th...
Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Dark Testament: And Other Poems Pauli Murray 9781631494833 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in...
This Far By Faith: My Mother’s ShadowA Cracked MirrorHonor Thy Heart
This Far By Faith: My Mother’s ShadowA Cracked MirrorHonor Thy Heart Stacy Hawkins Adams, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, and Linda Hudson-Smith 9780373830244 Nonfiction Kimani Press Kimani Press LaShun Tillm...
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems
The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems Tony Medina 9781933491943 Poetry Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, ma...
Knucklehead: Poems
Knucklehead: Poems Tony Keith Jr. 9780063296053 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins dear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skin are thick enough to ...
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374604851 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Priz...
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller 9780996139021 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books “The volume itself and the poems chosen for its publication ...
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson 9780807147344 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries...
Roll Deep: Poems
Roll Deep: Poems Major Jackson 9780393353624 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit ...
Blues Poems
Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka 9781324097501 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems, Adr...
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Boston Weatherford 9780399237263 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine o...
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...
Journey: Poems
Journey: Poems Wade Hudson 9780883784174 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Journey is a collection of poems that offers a reflective look at various periods and experiences of Wade Hudson’s l...
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems Gabriel Okara 9780803286870 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decade...
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems Alice Walker 9781608681884 Poetry New World Library New World Library Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can st...
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa Kadija Sesay 9781905233014 Poetry Flipped Eye Publishing Flipped Eye Publishing The anthology, Dance the Guns to Silence celebrates the life, str...
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819512116 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 199...
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery Cynthia Grady 9780802853868 Nonfiction William B. Eerdmans Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company This powerful collection of poems chronicles the various...
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems
Pleasure Dome: New And Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780819567390 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 9780393319729 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country’s most influential poe...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines Loading SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES (January - June 2000) Poetry BlackWords Poetry Chapbook Series Please submit two hard-copy versions of five (5) of your most represen...
Book Of Hours: Poems
Book Of Hours: Poems Kevin Young 9780307272249 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my ...