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The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald.

"Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems.

Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance.

Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, honors the Black men he most admires, including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBro

A collection of almost one hundred poems in honor of the artists, writers, poets, historical figures, ordinary people, and diverse luminaries from past and present who inspire us.

An entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world.

In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling sweeter and soot

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees, in this collection of original and never before published poems.

A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time.

Comment sauver une amie sans risquer sa propre vie ? Une nouvelle voisine, aperçue de loin, s’absente de l’école.

A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory

Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus.

first snow falling slow hangs in the air a curtain drifting there thickening sight —“Winter” In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.”

Gospel Drunk follows a speaker’s journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction.

Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning.