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Poetry
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Pilgrim Bell
by
Kaveh Akbar
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781644451526
Publication Date: 2021
Swing
by
Kwame Alexander; Mary Rand Hess
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780310761877
Publication Date: 2018
Sharp Teeth
by
Toby Barlow
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780061843471
Publication Date: 2009
Tomorrow's Woman
by
Greta Bellamacina
ISBN: 9781524854096
Publication Date: 2020
Felon: Poems
by
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780393652154
Publication Date: 2019
The Tradition
by
Jericho Brown
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9781556594861
Publication Date: 2019
The Tradition
by
Jericho Brown
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781619321953
Publication Date: 2019
A Strangely Wrapped Gift
by
Emily Byrnes
ISBN: 9781771681896
Publication Date: 2020
Café Shapiro Anthology - 23rd Annual
Publication Date: 2020
Obit
by
Victoria Chang
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781556595745
Publication Date: 2020
Close Caskets
by
Donté Clark
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780999303986
Publication Date: 2021
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
by
Wanda Coleman
ISBN: 9781574232370
Publication Date: 2020
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
by
James Crews (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781635865349
Publication Date: 2022
a more perfect Union
by
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
ISBN: 9780814257784
Publication Date: 2021
Postcolonial Love Poem
by
Natalie Diaz
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781644451137
Publication Date: 2020
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
by
Joy Harjo (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780393356816
Publication Date: 2020
Romance or the End: Poems
by
Elaine Kahn
ISBN: 9781593765842
Publication Date: 2020
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
by
Yusef Komunyakaa
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780374600143
Publication Date: 2021
Catcalling
by
Lee Soho
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9781948830386
Publication Date: 2021
You Are Your Own Fairy Tale
by
amanda lovelace
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781524883287
Publication Date: 2023
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures
by
Natasha Marin (Curator)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781944211844
Publication Date: 2020
Honeybee
by
Trista Mateer
ISBN: 9781771681360
Publication Date: 2018
The Big Book of Exit Strategies
by
Jamaal May
ISBN: 9781938584244
Publication Date: 2016
I Am the Rage: Poems
by
Martina McGowan; Diana Ejaita
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781728245072
Publication Date: 2021
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective
by
Lenard D. Moore (Editor)
ISBN: 9781949467338
Publication Date: 2020
I Hope You Stay
by
Courtney Peppernell
ISBN: 9781524851972
Publication Date: 2020
Tonguebreaker
by
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN: 9781551527574
Publication Date: 2019
Just Us: An American Conversation
by
Claudia Rankine
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781644451199
Publication Date: 2020
Text Messages; or, How I Found Myself Time Traveling
by
Yassin Al Salman
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781642592108
Publication Date: 2020
We Hope This Reaches You in Time
by
r.h. sin; Samantha King Holmes
ISBN: 9781524855765
Publication Date: 2020
Funeral Diva
by
Pamela Sneed
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780872868113
Publication Date: 2020
A Fine Canopy
by
Alison Swan
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780814348079
Publication Date: 2020
Orion Sweeping
by
Anne Marie Todkill
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781771315708
Publication Date: 2022
Boricua Passport
by
J. L. Torres
ISBN: 9781940939209
Publication Date: 2014
Thrall: Poems
by
Natasha Trethewey
ISBN: 9780547571607
Publication Date: 2012
Super Model Minority
by
Chris Tse
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781869409616
Publication Date: 2022
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
by
Ocean Vuong
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781619321564
Publication Date: 2016
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
by
Jackie Wang
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781643620367
Publication Date: 2021
Beast at Every Threshold
by
Natalie Wee
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781551528847
Publication Date: 2022
Exactly As I Am
by
Rae White
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780702266706
Publication Date: 2022
Spooks
by
Stella Wong
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781947817388
Publication Date: 2022
On the Shores of Welcome Home
by
Bruce Weigl
ISBN: 9781942683896
Publication Date: 2019
Brown Girl Dreaming
by
Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014
A Boy in the City
by
S. Yarberry
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781646051793
Publication Date: 2022
If God Is a Virus: Poems
by
Seema Yasmin
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781642594591
Publication Date: 2021
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink
by
Kevin Young (editor)
ISBN: 9781608197682
Publication Date: 2014
Some Are Always Hungry
by
Jihyun Yun
ISBN: 9781496222183
Publication Date: 2020
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