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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

A Veteran's Memoir

by Khadijah Queen ...

From award winning poet Khadijah Queen, a coming-of-age memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman’s search for autonomy.Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster, Michigan. Longing to escape the cycle of ... Read more

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From award winning poet Khadijah Queen, a coming-of-age memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman’s search for autonomy.Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster, Michigan. Longing to escape the cycle of
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Black Women Writers at Work in the 21st Century

Edited by Khadijah Queen ...

In the tradition of Claudia Tate’s classic book, reenvisioned for the twenty-first century, Khadijah Queen showcases fifteen leading Black women writers who are influencing our cultural and literary future.Like the luminaries Tate interviewed forty years ago, the writers in this collection demonstrate how their identities are integral to their creative processes in craft, thought, and imagination. ... Read more

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In the tradition of Claudia Tate’s classic book, reenvisioned for the twenty-first century, Khadijah Queen showcases fifteen leading Black women writers who are influencing our cultural and literary future.Like the luminaries Tate interviewed forty years ago, the writers in this collection demonstrate how their identities are integral to their creative processes in craft, thought, and imagination.
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Radical Poetics

Essays on Literature & Culture

by Khadijah Queen ...

Series series Poets On Poetry
Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often ... Read more

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Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often
... Read more
Begin Where You Are

The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology

by Turner Wyatt ...

Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology is a book of firsts. It is the first ever US state poet laureate anthology. It is the first poetry collection featuring all ten Colorado poets laureate (the second oldest state poet laureateship, established in 1919). And it is the first place readers can discover unpublished poems by Andrea Gibson—bestselling author and one of the most ... Read more

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Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology is a book of firsts. It is the first ever US state poet laureate anthology. It is the first poetry collection featuring all ten Colorado poets laureate (the second oldest state poet laureateship, established in 1919). And it is the first place readers can discover unpublished poems by Andrea Gibson—bestselling author and one of the most
... Read more
Beyond Ourselves

Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser

by Daniel Borzutzky, Susan Briante, Stacy Hardy, Erika Meitner, Philip Metres, Jena Osman, Deborah Paredez, Khadijah Queen, Solmaz Sharif, Nomi Stone ...

Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people ... Read more

$10.79 USD

Muriel Rukeyser has many faces: poet, biographer, theorist, playwright, novelist, story-writer, filmmaker, translator, ethnographer, and innovator of social, documentary poetics; feminist, queer, Jewish, single mother, and social justice activist. Yet above all, she was a poet. Threaded through her work, politics, and life was the conviction that poetry is an animating force that connects people
... Read more
Infinite Constellations

An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions

by Khadijah Queen, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Kenzie Allen, dg nanouk okpik, Lynn C. Pitts, George Abraham, Yohanca Delgado, Juan J. Morales, Wendy Chin-Tanner0, Soham Patel1, M.L.J. Sarazin2, Brian K. Hudson3, Ruth Ellen Kocher4, Tonya Liburd5, Sheree Renée Thomas6, Aerik Francis7, Melanie Merle8, Cindy Juyoung Ok9, Lucien Darjeun Meadows0, Sarah Sophia Yanni1, Jennifer Elise Foerster2, Ra'Niqua Lee3, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint4, Alton Melvar M. Dapanas5, Thea Anderson6, Kenji C. Liu7, Pedro Iniguez8, Shakirah Peterson9, Shreya Ila Anasuya0, André O. Hoilette1, Shalewa Mackall2, Daniel José Older3 ...

A galaxy of voices. A universe of belonging.The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar ... Read more

$17.99 USD

A galaxy of voices. A universe of belonging.The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar
... Read more
Ploughshares Spring 2022 Guest-edited by Ilya Kaminsky

by Ilya Kaminsky, Sheila Black, Andres Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Jo Bang, Paige Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Khadijah Queen ...

The Spring 2022 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2022 Issue, guest-edited ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The Spring 2022 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2022 Issue, guest-edited
... Read more
The Long Devotion

Poets Writing Motherhood

by Carmen Giménez Smith, Emari DiGiorgio, Chanda Feldman, Pamela Hart, Shara Lessley, Erika Meitner, Jasminne Mendez, Chelsea Rathburn, Megan Snyder-Camp, Molly Spencer, Sasha West, Diannely Antigua, Zeina Hashem Beck, Remica Bingham-Risher, Sarah Blake, Allison Blevins, Mahogany L. Browne, Julie Carr, Sunu P. Chandy, Tina Chang, Victoria Chang, Nicole Cooley, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Laura Da’, Meg Day, Kendra Decolo, Chelsea Dingman, Alexa Doran, Carolina Ebeid, Heid Erdrich, Beth Fennelly, Carrie Fountain, Krista Franklin, Shamala Gallagher, Sherine Gilmour, Aracelis Girmay, Jenn Givhan, Camille Guthrie, Lauren Haldeman, Faylita Hicks, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Joy Katz, Keetje Kuipers, Joy Ladin, Eugenia Leigh, Raina J. León, Kim-An Lieberman, Layli Long Soldier, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Joyelle McSweeney, Lynn Melnick, Clarissa Mendiola, Emily Mohn-Slate, Lisa L. Moore, Sara Mumolo, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, January Gill O’Neil, Emmy Pérez, Kiki Petrosino, Catherine Pierce, Khadijah Queen, Jordan Rice, Natalie Shapero, Brenda Shaughnessy, Sun Yung Shin, Maggie Smith, Melissa Stephenson, Alison Stine, Angela Narciso Torres, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Sarah Vap, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Hope Wabuke, Monica Youn, Rachel Zucker ...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting ... Read more

$27.59 USD

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting
... Read more
Anodyne

Poems

by Khadijah Queen ...

**Colorado Book Awards Finalist for PoetryShortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award**The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**Colorado Book Awards Finalist for PoetryShortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award**The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and
... Read more
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

A Veteran's Memoir

by Khadijah Queen ...

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11 hours 37 min

We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war.Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet’s memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman’s search for autonomy. Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war.Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet’s memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman’s search for autonomy. Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with her mother and sister and working two retail jobs in snowy, tiny Inkster,
... Read more

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The Best of Brevity

Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

by Zoë Bossiere, Dinty W. Moore ...

How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal ... Read more

$9.95 USD

How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal
... Read more
Together in a Sudden Strangeness

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

Edited by Alice Quinn ...

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, ... Read more

$6.99 USD

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In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory,
... Read more

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