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Published in its intended form for the first time, I Want to Tell You Love is a remarkable collaboration from bill bissett and Milton Acorn that captures the spirit of the sixties.

An intimate poetic interrogation of restrictive masculinity from award-winning author Paul Zits. He has outlived his usefulness. He is stressed, over-produced, and in crisis.

Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain.

An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family.

The first book in the inaugural series Malinda A.

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist.

Parenthood is a journey with no roadmap, and it is the children who most often steer the ship. There are times in a parent's life when they ask, "Why am I doing this?

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.