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  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing
    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • A People's History of Chicago

    by Kevin Coval
    Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.

  • Inauguration

    by Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson
    Inauguration is a collection of ten poems written in reaction to the onset of the Trump era.

  • 1989, The Number

    by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall
    For hip-hop heads 89 was the peak of the Golden Era and the Crack Epidemic.

  • Before the Next Bomb Drops

    by Remi Kanazi
    Before the Next Bomb Drops explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US militarism through a poetic lens.

  • The BreakBeat Poets

    Edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, et al.
    A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

  • More than an Athlete

    by Etan Thomas
    In this, his first collection of poems, Etan Thomas defies the stereotype of the a-political athlete.

  • Schtick

    by Kevin Coval
    Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience.

  • Voices of the Future

    by Etan Thomas
    NBA star Etan Thomas helps give voice to the poetic and socially conscious ideas of young people.

  • L-vis Lives!

    by Kevin Coval
    L-vis Lives! in this poetic novella on the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.

  • Poetry and Protest

    Edited by Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar
    A vital original collection of the interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader.