Poetry. California Interest. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Michaela Mullin. BEHIND OUR NAMES is a collection of poetry that deep dives into self discovery by asking difficult questions about family, community, and the histories that sculpt us. T...
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Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Religion & Spirituality. Women's Studies. SYNCHRONICITY: THE ORACLE OF SUN MEDICINE by Tureeda Mikell is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. A HEART FULL OF HALLWAYS is about being young and unsure and American. It's at once a rallying cry written in th...
Poetry. Fiction. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. The brief narratives in ANIMAL CHILDREN by Hugh Behm-Steinberg work like a deceptively simple pinhole camera, a way of gazing at the deepest secrets of ...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. APRICITY follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressi...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. BLACK FAGGOTRY by Dazié Grego-Sykes is a collection of poetry that loudly and proudly exclaims the intersect...
Poetry. Fiction. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. CRYPTOPEDIA by Andrew Demcak speaks directly to the secret sides of our beings, to our shadow-selves. It is the oldest story we have, and it wants to be...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. RESERVE THE RIGHT by Yume Kim is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems shared through the perspective of a...
Poetry. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. SHADOW BURN is a journey through small, big lived moments of transformation. This collection of stories and city scenes is an exploration of now, then, and the s...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. An elegy and a celebration, TO LOVE AND MOURN IN THE AGE OF DISPLACEMENT by Alan Pelaez Lope...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. TWICE SHY by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett reflects the many faces of violence—in our experiences, our relationships, and our society—but it then asks us to ...
Poetry. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. These poems want to blame someone. When the waters are unsettled, who or what is responsible? XV by Zach Goldberg probes concepts of masculinity, love, and traum...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Interest. Women's Studies. THIS IS MY BODY is an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies in the w...
Poetry. California Interest, African & African American Studies. Contributors include Samuel Getachew, Nicos Hubbard-Riley, Elijah I. Hynson, Damion Evans, Charles Hall, and Daniel Summerhill. BLACK JOY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK BOY POEMS is an unapolo...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. The poems in BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams, blues, and a chorus of voice...