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  • Freedom and Confinement

    An Interview with Etheridge Knight

    by Elizabeth Gordon McKim ...
    Freedom and Confinement is a powerful, book-length conversation between poets Elizabeth Gordon McKim and Etheridge Knight, recorded in 1990 as Knight was dying of cancer. The interview traces Knight’s life from his childhood in Paducah, Kentucky, to his time in the Army and his injury in Korea, to his drug addiction and incarceration, and finally, to his poetic rebirth. The dialogue includes a ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Felon

    Poems

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...
    **Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice**In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shahid Reads His Own Palm

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...
    Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Series series The Essential Speeches of Dr. MLK Jr.
    A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne BettsOn April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Doggerel

    Poems

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...
    **One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry’s boldest voices.**Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic—but equally ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Crazy as Hell

    The Best Little Guide to Black History

    by Hoke S. Glover III, V. Efua Prince ...
    By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and the inmates—from Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Collected Poems

    by Robert Hayden, Arnold Rampersad ...
    An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century.Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    Felon

    Poems

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...
    Narrated by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 22 min

    A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace― and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Crazy as Hell

    The Best Little Guide to Black History

    by Hoke S. Glover III, V. Efua Prince ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history.A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and the inmates—from Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Question of Freedom

    A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

    by Reginald Dwayne Betts ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts—a good student from a lower-middle-class family—carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an adult under state law. A bright young kid, he served his nine-year sentence as part of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Speaking in Tongues

    by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos ...
    Narrated by M.L. Sanchez ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 38 min

    Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues—taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimópulos—examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Super Bowl Champion and two-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor. One of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, he is also a fearless activist, grassroots philanthropist, and organizer.Bennett, a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, has gained international recognition for his public support for the Black Lives ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook