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“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.”

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world. Take 50% off all the books on our list. Also enjoy a free Ebook* and free shipping on orders over $25 in the US.
We Stand with Michael Bennett

Athletes, authors, and activists stand with NFL player and freedom fighter Michael Bennett, as he faces absurd, curiously timed, and deadly serious assault charges in Houston, Texas.

Featured Books

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.
How We Get Free

Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement
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.
US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty

Edited by Lance Selfa

Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.

On New Terrain

by Kim Moody

An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US.
No Is Not Enough

by Naomi Klein
“This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

by Aja Monet

Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

An indispensable contribution to the movement for racial justice in postracial” America.
Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People

by Danny Katch

A sharp-witted indictment of our broken political system and a vision for a socialist alternative that is truly by and for the people.

Devin Allen

“Devin Allen could be the Gordon Parks of his generation.”
—NBC BLK
Michael Bennett

“There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. Michael Bennett's name deserves mention alongside the best of us.”
—Dr. John Carlos
Angela Y. Davis

"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
—Alice Walker
Eve L. Ewing

"Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

–Chicago Magazine
Naomi Klein

"Naomi Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the left–what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago."
—The New Yorker

Aja Monet

“Aja Monet’s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds.”
—Angela Y. Davis
Arundhati Roy

"Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness."
—Junot Díaz
Rebecca Solnit

"No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
—Maria Popova
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
—The Root
Howard Zinn

“Few people changed more lives than Howard Zinn."
—Naomi Klein