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Tag: Black Poets

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If It Heals At All

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Ali Black

Available on Kindle.

“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2020 Publications, Ali Black, Black Poets, Chapbook, New Voices, Women Poets
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Yes, We Be

February 5, 2018 Jacar Press

Patrick Howell

OUT OF STOCK.

Yes, We Be is an integrated-design poetry book that connects with the Black Arts Movement, Harlem Renaissance, and Afro-Futurism. Proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter, SistaWRITE, and COR AME community programs.

“Patrick Howell’s Yes We …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Black Poets, Book Art, Full-Length Collection, New Voices, Patrick Howell
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Anonymous

January 12, 2018 Jacar Press

Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

Available on Kindle.

“Anonymous follows vulnerable bodies impelled to service-for work, lust, purgation, and song. Even that last knells from halls where ‘the applause is from the whips.’ This, the caustic art of Monique-Adelle’s often brutal debut: …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Black Poets, Full-Length Collection, Monique-Adelle Callahan D., New Voices, Women Poets
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I Want to Undie You

October 14, 2017 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green

A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.

I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s insistence, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Black Poets, Book Art, Book-Length Poem, Chapbook, Collectible, Jaki Shelton Green, Women Poets
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Raising the Sky

August 30, 2016 Jacar Press

Howard Craft

Available on Kindle.

“Raising the Sky is unpretentious, attempts no lofty poetic experiments with heavy themes but rather surges with philosophy caked on the sneaker bottoms of young slickster/trickster wannabes, and top-shelf gold standard prose shuffled across army …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2016 Publications, Black Poets, Full-Length Collection, Howard Craft, New Voices
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Resisting Arrest

March 23, 2016 Jacar Press

Ed. Tony Medina

“One of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2016”

Beltway Poetry Journal         

Proceeds go to a scholarship fund for African American youth, administered by the Urban League in Washington, D.C.

“Police killings of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Anthology, Black Poets, Latinx Poets, Tony Medina, Women Poets
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Feeding the Light

July 16, 2014 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green

Also available on Kindle.

“Rooted in hypnagogic logic and deeply seated in the tradition of Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe and Ntozake Shange, Jaki Shelton Green’s verse narratives pay homage to the orphic ethos of the mythmaking South …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Black Poets, Chapbook, Jaki Shelton Green, Women Poets
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