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Poetry. "It was a challenge and pleasure to read these lyric and narrative poems made by a poet who uses her sophistication to consider the lives of those for whom so much has been denied and whose rage now makes targets of us all."--Judge, Patricia Spears Jones

Poetry. Winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. "'I was born with a gift for gall and grit,' Rochelle Hurt writes--a line that echoes through every poem in this collection. She spares nothing and bares all that needs baring about family, place, and relationships--how they reflect each other, blurred in tarnished mirrors. With a Sylvia Plath-like abandon and urgency, every single word feels completely necessary; words spoken with a vigor and honesty that are felt in the gut; words that remain lodged in the back of the throat." --Richard Blanco

N.N. is an educator that has over a decade of experience teaching Preschool and elementary-aged kids. She is trilingual that speaks Kiswahili, Somali and English fluently. She deeply desires to push young learners to reach their maximum potential. This book teaches kids how to count in Somali and English. Children will also be introduced to exotic fruits that grow in Somalia.

Freddi T. Lane's, Creating Your Lane series was written to provide tools and motivation for self-empowerment. In the first book in the series, subtitled Unleashing Self-Confidence, she encourages readers to build self-confidence by focusing on positivity. She lets us into her life by giving readers real-life examples of how she was faced with negativity and how she overcame it to build her confidence. The book engages the reader on a mental self-care and spiritual level. Each chapter ends with questions, affirmations, and biblical verses for the reader.

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Miguel Murphy's poems--terse, grave, erudite--offer gleaming surfaces for a reader to savor: traces of a heroic, louche tradition, where Novarro, Genet, Lorca, Pasolini, and other role models still make possible new discoveries about martyrdom and ecstasy. In SHOREDITCH, we cruise the epitaphs, reenact the melodramas, and taste the paradoxes, almost Sapphic in their concentration, their hieratic fruit-forwardness. Murphy tailors the pleasure-pain conundrum in a sublimely minimalist style that I want always to be wearing.--Wayne Koestenbaum

"The charged and direct language of USES OF MY BODY emphasizes black women's experience of erasure, sexual and racial violence, as well as pleasure and healing. The poems are marked by the refusal to code switch and speak to repeated experiences of being touched and looked at as a black woman navigating desire and intimate relationships. The book is an unapologetic and humorous exploration of sex, magic, and dancing, as a fitness instructor/gym junky, poet, and academic living in Kansas."--From publisher's description.