Str8 Up Queer African
Str8 Up Queer African, by the trans Tanzanian-American author Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko, is a poignant exploration of the queer Black African experience, told with unguarded emotion and an unyielding tenderness. Mwaluko weaves a powerful narrative through essays, stories, and poems that confront the harsh realities of trauma, transitioning, and societal exclusion, yet triumphs in capturing the immense creativity and resilience of those living at the crossroads of multiple marginalized identities. This collection resonates as a testament to the human struggle and the relentless pursuit of self-love and liberation, offering readers a profound opportunity to engage with stories of pain transfigured into power and identity celebrated in its most authentic form.
$20.00
BENDING
BENDING examines time spent doing exactly that. The majority of these poems by Amanda Boekelheide come from the connection between physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies before and after exertion or contortion. They were dreamt with potential bodies in mind, and question the control one does or does not have over physical aspects of oneself in the world.
$15.00
EUGENE & COMPANY
Eugene & Company’ is the most recent and first published collection of poems by performer and writer Amanda Boekelheide. Created as part of a poets’ group loosely based around the restaurant ‘Eugene & Co.’ between 2017-2018, these 36 poems span a year of life in BedStuy, Brooklyn and are dedicated to the author’s Oma, who lived in Eugene, Oregon until her death in 2018.
$15.00
Moving Darker
This collection of short poems was written by Amanda Boekelheide between 2006-2009, while suffering stolen mail, spending hours of time roaming the spaces between Rivington, Stanton, and Chinatown, and falling in and out of phase with the ephemeral nature of love.
$15.00
What The Tide Brings
What the Tide Brings marks the debut of a new voice in poetry. Kim Barke’s poems find space along the paths of nature, science, love, and death. Fireflies, buzzing phones, lab rats, and blue herons share the page with the electrical energy felt between two bodies in love. Between losing sleep over sump pumps and rock climbing in Joshua Tree, she captures the everyday sublime: sometimes ragged, often muffled, always thoughtful.
$10.01
State To State
In this second short collection of poems, Kim Barke takes us deep within her inner life. The effects of lovers on creativity and one’s sense of self, and the wonder of nature as it relates to art are two of several themes considered and tossed about with philosophical salt. While contemplative and thick with feeling, these poems still retain an airiness that marked Barke’s earlier work. Alongside the new poems are selected photographs that resonate, albeit obliquely, with the words.