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One part mixtape, one part disorientation guide, and one part career retrospective, Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre's debut looks you directly in the eye and doesn't let you flinch. Ranging from justice to...

Ain't Never Not Been BlackAuthor: Javon JohnsonPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735840ISBN-13:...

Written after the death of their mother, Donte Collins's Autopsy establishes the poet as one of the most important voices in the next generation of American poetry. As the book unfolds, the reader...

Phil SaintDenisSanchez's debut collection before & after our bodies tackles complex familial history and struggles, emerging in the rich backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana.Through multilayered...

2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last...

Born In A Second Language (Button Poetry)Author: Akosua Afiriyie-HwediePublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: July 06, 2021Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Butcher (Button Poetry)Author: Natasha T. MillerPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: February 23, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735905ISBN-13:...

Miya Coleman's premier collection, Cottonmouth paints the picture of what makes up a home, and also, more importantly, what doesn't. Readers join Coleman as she journeys through her own conceptions...

Date & TimeAuthor: Phil KayePublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: September 18, 2018Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735360ISBN-13: 9781943735365

Dead Dad Jokes (Button Poetry)Author: Ollie SchminkeyPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: May 25, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194373593XISBN-13:...

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments, there would be nothing to immortalize in writing. In Sierra DeMulder's melancholic yet beautifully...

2019 Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago - Best New Poetry Collection Winner 2019 Chicago Reader's Best of Chicago - Best Poet Runner-Up In Even the Saints Audition Raych Jackson Reconditions her body...

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every book, the author utilizes various tools and methods to excavate his experiences and find...

Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction (Button Poetry)Author: Jared SingerPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: December 03, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Sean Patrick Mulroy's Hated for the Gods invites the reader to embrace their queer heritage with disarming tenderness, and urges them to celebrate the joy of gay sex without shame.Plaintive and...

HeliumAuthor: Rudy FranciscoPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: November 28, 2017Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735190ISBN-13: 9781943735198

Home.Girl.Hood.Author: Ebony StewartPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1638340072ISBN-13: 9781638340072

How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it. Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and...

i shimmer sometimes, too (Button Poetry)Author: Porsha OlayiwolaPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: October 29, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

I??º??ll Fly Away (Button Poetry)Author: Rudy FranciscoPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735697ISBN-13:...

If My Body Could SpeakAuthor: Blythe BairdPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: February 05, 2019Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735476ISBN-13:...

Darius Simpson's debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against...

New American Best Friend (Button Poetry)Author: Olivia GatwoodPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: March 28, 2017Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Not A Lot Of Reasons To Sing, But Enough (Button Poetry)Author: Kyle Tran MyhrePublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: Mar 29, 2022Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Poetry. "When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut...

peludaAuthor: Melissa Lozada-OlivaPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: September 26, 2017Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1943735247ISBN-13: 9781943735242

In its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters' Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe...

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtaking...

The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry)Author: Hanif AbdurraqibPublisher: Button PoetryPublication Date: July 19, 2016Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

WASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. Ebony Stewart's praise and pleas for the lives of black womxn create a devotional space for healing...