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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the 20th century.

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine Vulture Essence Elle Cosmopolitan Real Simple Refinery 29 She Reads The Everygirl Career Contessa “You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer...

Rosie Garland's enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space. Rooted in the realm of gothic imagination, mythology, and the uncanny, it contains magnitudes and magic, feminist fables starstruck with science and astronomy. Like comets, these dazzling poems explore containment and liberation, asking what it means to dismantle expectations, escape the drag of gravity, and blaze your own path with "strangeness that makes you strong".

If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, girl made of glass is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us but will leave you feeling hopeful about your future. girl made of glass is a poetry collection about how our past-past mistakes, relationships, and regrets—can linger into our future. Broken into four parts, this book is about finding, forgiving, and loving ourselves.

Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

Embark on a poetic journey with Raegan Fordemwalt’s captivating books, Lover Girl and Prince of Hearts. This exclusive bundle brings together her dreamy debut and its highly anticipated follow-up, with exclusive commentary and behind-the-scenes stories. Reagan brings her signature candor and...

Lover Girl is the dreamy debut from poet and breakout TikTok star Raegan Fordemwalt, with never-before-shared poems. In her debut collection Lover Girl, poet Raegan Fordemwalt writes the story of a girl boldly and devastatingly fond of love. So eager to feel, she proudly walks through Heartbreak...

You Go Girl Poetry by Pamela Wallace, narrated by the dynamic Vivian B. and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerhouse collection that captures the messy, glorious, and unapologetic journey of womanhood. From heartbreak to healing, addiction to empowerment, these poems are your anthem, your therapy, and your battle cry.

“Sad Girl’s Melancholic Musings in Poetry” is a heartfelt collection that spans five years of raw self-reflection and soul-stirring emotion. Each poem captures the quiet beauty found in life’s most fragile moments—the pain, the longing, and the quiet healing that follows. Divided into five distinct acts, this book invites readers on a journey through heartache, growth, and the complex spaces in between. For the sad girls, the dreamers, and anyone who finds strength in their vulnerability, this collection is a tribute to the resilience that comes from embracing the depth of our emotions.

The Girl and the TimeLapse are little tales of love—Each poem is a liberated story of a "feeling"—A feeling that decides to take a walk through the seasons as they roll by.

A love story, in poems.

This is a poem that does not rhyme, because life-changing moments do not rhyme, or fit perfectly in order. Each line of the 22-line poem, conveys a multitude of lived experiences, and is stacked like the title for emphasis. To sit with the title (without even opening the book), and the question it prompts, would be more than enough - to jump start a shift in perception about the pathways of life, where we intersect at heart and meet for a virtual cup of tea.

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. These poems are full of lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of wildflowers, and full of the wolves that lurk in the forests of our everyday lives. Opening the whispered frames around sexuality and sex work, immersed in the unflattering symptoms of survival, Buffalo Girl burgeons with matrilineal love and corporeal rage while censuring the white gaze and the violence enacted through the English language.

T.D. Jakes is an internationally beloved pastor and a best-selling author. In Cover Girls, he delivers the story of four women who, though from very different backgrounds, are all struggling with their faith. Michelle wants control, Tonya wants to be able to trust, and Mrs. Judson wants to let down her guard. Through Miz Ida's wisdom, and each other's support, these women discover that friendship may be the answer to their prayers.

Nowhere Girl is a collection of poetry that embodies the nature of love, loss, and healing. The audiobook closely follows the inner journey of toxicity, loss, and the brave steps of a woman returning to herself.

A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom “Poet m...

The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker...

From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes listeners on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.

This is a book of collected poems of time and place, compiled in the season of the coronavirus 2020, during lockdown.