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This is the Honey

811 THI

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout.

Home Body

811 KAU

Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in Home Body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change.

Black Girl You Are Atlas

811 WAT

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power.

No One Will Know You Tomorrow

808.1 DAR

In spare lyric verse, Darwish testifies to the brutal and intimate traumas of war, the anguished fatigue of waking up each morning in an occupied land, and the immeasurable toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While anchored in the geography of Palestine, his poetry also explores the rich artistic inheritance of the Arabic-speaking world, moving between regions, landscapes, and eras, from the glories of medieval Granada to the rippling shores of contemporary Haifa. Darwish's verse pulses with spiritual longing and a sense of battered, disoriented wonder—a witness to both the atrocities we visit upon one another and the miracle that we are here at all.

The Sun and Her Flowers

811 KAU (Also available in Spanish)

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

From From: Poems

811 YOU

"Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?"

It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.

This collection of interrelated poems and personal reflections by Korean American poet Monica Youn explores deracination and Asian American identity.

Ain't Burned All the Bright

811 REY

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything else: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now.

You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

808.81 YOU

You Don't Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age. From loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor ,these poems offer girls a message of self-acceptance and strength, giving them permission to let go of shame and perfectionism.

Call Us What We Carry

811 GOR

This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, and our voice for the future.