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Black History Month

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Black History Month

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Cover of "A Long Way From St. Louie" by Collen J. McElroy, with a dark blue background and orange flowers, as well as the back of a lady dressed in orange wearing a large orange hat.

A Long Way from St. Louie

Cover of "A Toast in The House of Friends," by Akilah Oliver, with a photograph of a sunset or sunrise in the background and silhouetted trees in the foreground.

A Toast in the House of Friends

Book Cover featuring image of a person in a orange jumpsuit and astronaut helmet leaning onto a silver chrome car in a summer field with the title and author in big bold hot pink text

Alive at the End of the World

Book Cover featuring black and white nature art with the title and author in minimalistic yellow text

Alt-Nature

Book Cover featuring navy and red bold text that spells out the title multiple times over a bright blue background

American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

Cover for Quincy Toupe's "Avalanche," featuring a sketched figure playing a horn which releases a black swirling mass.

Avalanche

Cove4r of Rosa Guy's "Bird at My Window," with the top half all white and the bottom half features a bird flying through an open window that is shadowed in a red hue.

Bird at My Window

Cover of Patricia Smith's "Blood Dazzler," portraying the image of a hurricane off the coast.

Blood Dazzler

Book cover featuring deep blue background with a white translucent smear in the middle red, brown and yellow organic shapes collaged on top

Borealis

Cover of "Captain Blackman," by John A. Williams, featuring black, green, and red-reminiscent of a flag. The cover also features a picture of a Black solider carrying a rifle.

Captain Blackman

Cover of "Choruses," by Quincy Troupe, featuring an abstract creature walking across the surface of a body of water.

Choruses

Cover of "Clifford's Blues," by John A. Williams, featuring a drawing of a Black man wearing a tuxedo and playing the piano.

Clifford's Blues

Cover of "Dancing on Main Street," by Lorenzo Thomas, featuring two abstract faces drawn on to a green background, and several smaller abstract bodies drawn above them in an orange header.

Dancing on Main Street

Book cover featuring yellow textured cover with two images of a brown eye on the top and bottom of the title written in bold black text

Echo Tree

Cover of Mark McMorris's "Entrepôt," which features black and gray scribbles letters that cannot be made out.

Entrepôt

Cover of "Errançities," by Quincy Troupe, featuring an aerial shot of what looks like a city market.

Errançities

Book cover featuring an image of a person kneeling covered in a red hoodie with their hands showing gripping the hood

Exiles of Eden

Cover of "Flickering Shadows," by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau, featuring blues and golds, bodiless hands reaching for a drum, and a mountain range in the background.

Flickering Shadows

Cover of "Good Stock Strange Blood," by Dawn Lundy Martin, which features notebook paper as the background, an abstract image of an octopus-looking creature, and a lurking face.

Good Stock Strange Blood

Cover of "Hold It 'Til It Hurts," by T. Geronimo Johnson, which features two blue envelopes sitting on a white marble surface.

Hold It 'Til It Hurts

Book cover featuring black background with white and gold art in the bottom left corner and title and author in the top center

Indecency

Cover of "Losing Absalom," by Alexs Pate, which shows several characters drawn in dark colors in various poses, as well as red wall and a staircase leading to a blue door. There is also a small graveyard next to the staircase that contains many small tombstones.

Losing Absalom

Cover of "Mr. and Mrs. Doctor," by Julie Iromuanya, which features a rippled photo of a tall house with a porch and an American flag connected to the porch.

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

Cover of "My Love, My Love, or The Peasant Girl," by Rosa Guy, which features an image of the beach as the tide is going out, which reveals a spiral seashell.

My Love, My Love, or The Peasant Girl

Cover of "Necessary Distance," by Clarence Major, which features a photograph of a man looking away from the camera, and he is shaded in a light green that almost looks grey.

Necessary Distance

Cover of "Pictures of a Dying Man," by Agymah Kamau, which features an illustration of palm trees, the sun, grass, and wind whirls, all done in chalk and set against a black background.

Pictures of a Dying Man

Cover of "Prelude To Bruise," by Saeed Jones, which features an image of several people standing in a body of water.

Prelude to Bruise

Cover of "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah," by Patricia Smith, which features a desaturated image of a Black woman staring at the camera, holding a baby doll.

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Book cover in the form of a polaroid with an outline of a person's head and shoulders filled in with abstract black and white imagery on a black background.

Spectra

Cover of "Surfaces and Masks," by Clarence Major, which shows abstract drawings of doors and a wall, as well as windows, all in shades of blue, black, and yellow.

Surfaces and Masks

Cover of "Teahouse of the Almighty," by Patricia Smith, which features a drawing of a Black woman wearing a bright orange dress.

Teahouse of the Almighty

Cover of "Teducation," by Ted Joans, which features an illustration of a crouched over figure that has the head of a fish and the body of some kind of monster.

Teducation

Cover of "The Architecture of Language," by Quincy Troupe, featuring geometric swirls and shapes in various colors against a black background.

The Architecture of Language

Cover of "The Cotillion," by John Oliver Killens, which features a blue filtered photo of a Black man and woman looking out a window.

The Cotillion

Book cover featuring three images of a woman speaking into a microphone blurred over each other and coming out of black darkness with the title in neon blue cursive at the top left

the déjà vu

Book cover featuring an image of a Black person standing sideface with a black mask covering their head in the geometric shape of a 3D antlered animal

The Malevolent Volume

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