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Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems Sonia Sanchez 9780807026526 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honore...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Homegirls and Handgrenades Sonia Sanchez 9781893996809 Poetry White Pine Press White Pine Press “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”—Isabel AllendeA repr...
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums Sonia Sanchez 9780807068427 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press In the movie "lovejones", in "Vibe" magazine, and on rapper D-Knowledge’s CD, Sonia Sanchez’s love po...
Homegirls and Handgrenades: Poems
Homegirls and Handgrenades: Poems Sonia Sanchez 9781560251439 Poetry Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press In a style that is hers alone, Sonia Sanchez brings politics and poetry together as she...
Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak)
Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak) Sonia Sanchez 9780807068274 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez explores the pain, self-doubt, and anger that em...
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) Sonia Sanchez 9780807068533 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My ...
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak) Sonia Sanchez 9780807068434 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Like the Singing Coming off the Drums is a dazzling exploration of the intim...
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems Sonia Sanchez 9780883781128 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press The author of several books of poetry, Sanchez’ I’ve Been A Woman is the dynamic trans...
Morning Haiku
Morning Haiku Sonia Sanchez 9780807001318 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement, poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages A collection of h...
Does Your House Have Lions ?
Does Your House Have Lions ? Sonia Sanchez 9780807068311 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Nominated for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryRecommended Reading from EmergeAn epic poe...
We a BaddDDD People.
We a BaddDDD People. Sonia Sanchez 9780910296274 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press
Home Coming
Home Coming Sonia Sanchez 9780910296052 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press
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...
SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst 9781625340313 Fiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Pr...
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and...
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King 9780883783559 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Brilliant ...
Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name Kelly Harris-DeBerry 9781883275297 Poetry Xavier Review Press Xavier Review Press Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam “Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant ...
Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 9780593197141 Poetry Berkley Books Penguin Random House From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer i...
Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks Angela Jackson 9780807025048 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the...
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...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
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...
Born Among Mirrors: Poems
Born Among Mirrors: Poems Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781324105626 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A stunning new volume from a poet who insists that light and joy can be gather...
The Promise of Language: A Memoir
The Promise of Language: A Memoir Keith Gilyard 9780814351949 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Recounting a life—and language—by an esteemed scholar of African Amer...
African Voices Hip Hop At 50
African Voices Hip Hop At 50 Kevin Powell av-hiphopat50 Fiction African Voices African Voices Magazine A special digital issue of African Voices celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop guest edite...
Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work Claudia Tate 9781642598407 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wi...
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up Remica Bingham-Risher 9780807015926 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a ...
Black Fire This Time
Black Fire This Time Kim McMillon 9781737987673 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement. Edited by Dr. Kim McMillon and Kofi Antwi. Forew...
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love Mahogany L. Browne 9781642595703 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Mahogany L. Browne’s evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the pri...
Ancestors
Ancestors Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781946511553 Nonfiction Boston Review Boston Review Some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. It is rare no...
Honeyfish
Honeyfish Lauren K. Alleyne 9781936970599 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose "These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days that we want to remember. Or fo...
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe 9780883783726 Nonfiction Third World Press Third...
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature William J. Maxwell 9780691130200 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Few institutions ...
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass M. Nzadi Keita 9780990867777 Poetry Whirlwind Press Whirlwind Press Poetry. African American Studies. Women’s Studies. BRIEF EV...
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems Fred Lee Hord 9780883783498 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord’s space am...
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1)
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1) Miki Turner 9781478259497 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Miki Turne...
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry Evie Shockley 9781609380588 Nonfiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press Beginning with a deceptivel...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement
Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement Useni Eugene Perkins 9781933491134 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The Black Arts Movement spanned less than two decades, but left an unde...
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology) Nikky Finney 9780820329260 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press The South: to render all that it means to an Af...
Stardust Tracks on a Road
Stardust Tracks on a Road DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905221 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Stardust Tracks is a classic literary offering, from a young writer with an old, traveling sou...
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995 Julius E. Thompson 9780786422647 Fiction McFarland McFarland In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a...
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Cheryl Clarke 9780813534053 Poetry Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies ha...
Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics)
Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics) June Jordan 9780767918466 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward c...
Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives
Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives Patricia Bell-Scott 9780805046298 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Patricia Bell-Scott, an accomplished editor, has assembled another imp...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945
Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 Michael S. Harper 9780316347105 Poetry Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich ...
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews D. H. Melhem 9780813108070 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky D.H. Melhem’s clear introductions and frank in...
Black Poetry
Black Poetry Dudley Randall B001U2YPZ8 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets Poems from Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Rober...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) Jonah Winter 9781442403031 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc....
I Am Sonia Sotomayor
I Am Sonia Sotomayor Brad Meltzer 9780735228733 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, is the subject of the sixteenth picture book in the ...
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals Sonia Alleyne 9781732700215 Nonfiction Hunter Publishing Group Hunter Publishing Group I Kick Ass at Work! is designed to refocus att...
All I Want For Christmas
All I Want For Christmas Joyce A. Brown, Princess F.L. Gooden, Terri Ann Johnson, Sonia Johnston, Patricia Woodside, Cryssy Dee, Candy Jackson, and others 9781944359379 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown...
The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister
The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister Sonia Jackson Myles 9780615530079 Nonfiction Sister Accord Sister Accord Our world needs a resolution…Of Love….Our world needs a revolution…Of Love…Our w...
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega 9781494474225 Nonfiction CreateSpace ...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Ebony Illusions, a choreopoem
Ebony Illusions, a choreopoem Reina Diosa 9780967108209 Poetry Black Alchemist Press Black Alchemist Press Ebony Illusions is a cross genre peice, blending the elements of drama and poetry. It tells ...
Oprah Winfrey: Little People, BIG DREAMS
Oprah Winfrey: Little People, BIG DREAMS Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781836007500 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group “[This] addition to the Little People, BIG DREAMS ch...
Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711285453 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little ...
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711270718 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little P...
Martin Luther King Jr.: My First Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.: My First Martin Luther King Jr. Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711266544 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group Learn about the incredible life of Martin...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711245679 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group Little Martin grew up in Atlanta to a long line of preachers: his dad was ...
Wilma Rudolph (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Wilma Rudolph (Little People, BIG DREAMS) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786037510 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREA...
Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786033314 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover th...
Odd One Out
Odd One Out Nic Stone 9781101939536 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes this illuminating exploration of old frie...
Josephine Baker (Little People, Big Dreams)
Josephine Baker (Little People, Big Dreams) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786032287 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover...
Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams)
Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786032270 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover ...
Ella Fitzgerald (Little People, Big Dreams)
Ella Fitzgerald (Little People, Big Dreams) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786030870 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group Meet Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most influential jaz...
Mama, I’m In Love With A Thug
Mama, I’m In Love With A Thug Mercy B. 9781514870938 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Since high school, Kamey Avery had been intrigued by the handsome, and charismatic Dayton Sanchez—also...
Bold, Brilliant and Latine: Meet 52 Latine and Hispanic Heroes from Past and Present
Bold, Brilliant and Latine: Meet 52 Latine and Hispanic Heroes from Past and Present Alyssa Reynoso-Morris 9780711294363 Nonfiction Wide Eyed Editions The Quarto Group Meet 52 Latine and Hispanic hero...
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593480144 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about...
Barack Obama: A Little Golden Book Biography
Barack Obama: A Little Golden Book Biography Frank Berrios 9780593479360 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about President...
Little Heroes of Color: 50 Who Made a Big Difference
Little Heroes of Color: 50 Who Made a Big Difference David Heredia 9781338326420 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Say hello to heroes! This book introduces preschoolers to 50 men and women ...
Oh, The Things I Can Be When I See Me
Oh, The Things I Can Be When I See Me Valerie J. Lewis Coleman 9780978606688 Fiction Pen of the Writer Pen of the Writer Astronaut. Ballerina. Chef. Doctor. What do you want to be?Samara and Lyric are...
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States Tony Platt 9781250085115 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of th...
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin 9780385527200 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider’s account of t...
Reflections: (English edition)
Reflections: (English edition) Ahdaf Soueif 9789992142608 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, houses manuscripts, textiles, ceramics and other works ...
Ma Dear’s Old Green House
Ma Dear’s Old Green House Denise Lewis Patrick 9780940975552 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. All of us have special places in our childhood memories. They are happy places, fun places. They ...
Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls
Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls Dinah Johnson 9780805060973 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Through her collection of black dolls, Dinah Johnson imparts a poetic mess...
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892551743 Nonfiction Persea Books Persea Books This anthology of personal essay and autobiography follows t...
An Unconditional Freedom: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War
An Unconditional Freedom: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War Alyssa Cole 9781496739148 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. From the award-winning author of the insta...
An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League)
An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League) Alyssa Cole 9781496707482 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could d...
Tanner’s Devil
Tanner’s Devil Sylvia Hubbard 9781517721190 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In Detroit, strange things can happen. What does a Duke, a Former Street Doctor & Prostitute and A Pimp with ...
Hittin’ It Out The Park
Hittin’ It Out The Park Allison Hobbs and Karen E. Quinones Miller 9781593096106 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Secrets abound in this scintillating, drama-fuelled novel about a love tri...
Sex Appeal
Sex Appeal Meta Smith 9781416551409 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sex, scandal, money, murder, and revenge…. An electrifying page-turner from the author of Whip Appeal. Once, Ebony Kni...
Such A Pretty Face
Such A Pretty Face Gabrielle Goldsby 9781933110844 Fiction Bold Strokes Books Bold Strokes Books A sexy, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, contemporary romance that gently exposes the damage to...
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472069248 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472099245 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...
how i got ovah
how i got ovah Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385046701 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House The idea of crossing over to a new way of life provides the substance that Rodgers explicitly longed for in sev...