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By Busboys and Poets Books
Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with some of our favorite titles!
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes,
Arnold Rampersad
$22.00
$20.46
Busboys favorite! The name Busboys and Poets refers to American poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in the 1920s, prior to gaining recognition as a poet. The event space at our 14th & V location is also named The Langston Room in his honor.
Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano: Poemas / Poems
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
$17.00
$15.81
Join us for a virtual event at 7pm on 4/6/22! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/busboys-and-poets-books-presents-antes-que-isla-es-volcan-tickets-311407517267
There Are Trans People Here
H. Melt
$16.00
$14.88
Join us for a virtual event on at 6pm on 4/7/22! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/busboys-and-poets-books-presents-there-are-trans-people-here-tickets-311425581297
The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Hanif Abdurraqib
$16.00
$14.89
Bookseller Pick: Abdurraqib writes and we hold our breath. This book is a boy becoming, and unbecoming. Of death and what lingers after. It seems like forever ago that I first read this book, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t still want to scream-read some of my favorite poems into the night sometimes. - Kenny
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Tracy K. Smith
$26.00
$24.18
Bookseller Pick: Tracey Smith's new book, a collection of previously published and new work, uses words to remind us to look, and to see when looking. - Kurt
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton,
Aracelis Girmay
$20.00
$18.60
Busboys favorite! One of the event spaces at our Columbia location, The Clifton Room, is named in her honor.
If They Come for Us: Poems
Fatimah Asghar
$16.00
$14.89
Bookseller Pick: One of my favorite collections, If They Come For Us will make you laugh and cry. A blend of different styles and forms that challenge, but more importantly a story that will hold you till its end. - Kenny
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
Nikki Giovanni
$19.99
$18.59
Busboys favorite! One of the event spaces at our 450K location, The Giovanni Reading Room, is named in her honor.
January Children
Safia Elhillo,
Kwame Dawes
$15.95
$14.83
Bookseller Pick: This is a book I can still read from cover to cover. A story that spears two countries and finds a language that will hold them both. Elhillo is a writer familiar with sound. Her work reads like music sounds and you can’t help but sing along. - Kenny
Electric Arches
Eve L. Ewing
$16.00
$14.88
Bookseller Pick: Electric Arches blends poetry and science fiction to create work that flies. Work that not only honors what is, but what could be. The poems in this book are stories you continue to dream of long after you’ve set it down. - Kenny
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27
Diane Di Prima
$18.95
$17.62
Bookseller Pick: Diana DiPrima was one of the few women poets amongst the Beats, and one of the most overtly political. Revolutionary Letters gives the feel of that brief moment when it seemed possible to remake the world to be not only better, but also different (both needs remain). I still have by my desk at home the copy I bought 50 years ago at my first bookshop job. - Kurt
The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
Billy Collins
$16.00
$14.88
Bookseller Pick: All of Billy Collins' poetry is lovely, especially in its simplicity, but this collection demonstrates his irony and pokes fun at the very idea of poetry. - Nathan
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
$18.00
$16.74
Bookseller Pick: This book is my current love. It is a reminder to say thank you. Not only for the roses, but also the cracks in the wall. For the manure that will spite your nose. The beauty in Gays words is the beauty of people. A chance to see one another. - Kenny
Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Nicolas Guillen,
Roberto Marquez,
David Arthur McMurray
$27.95
$33.53
Busboys favorite! The event space at our Takoma location, The Guillen Room, is named in her honor.
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
E. Ethelbert Miller
$15.99
$14.87
Bookseller Pick: E. Ethelbert Miller's latest work continues his exploration of appreciating life in its pain and loss, in its joys and hopes even while aging -- using the game of baseball as a lens. - Kurt
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems
Yi Lei,
Tracy K. Smith
$18.00
$16.74
Bookseller Pick: Yi Lei's work expresses intimacy and longing, made meaningful by a self-questioning that is always aware of the wider world. - Kurt
