Salt Water Roots by Amuchechukwu Nwafor
September 30, 2024
$18.00
Amuchechukwu Nwafor’s debut collection, Salt Water Roots, traverses three levels of the author’s experience of her self. The poems in the book reflect on migration, immigration, nativity, love, substance abuse, sexual advocacy and sexual exploration. Teri Cross Davis, author of A More Perfect Union, described, “These poems are an exaltation of blackness and are unafraid.” Nwafor is the 2024 winner of the DC Poet Project, and annual open-to-all poetry competition created to support new poets. Cover art for the book is by Alan Sislen.
I Want to Be: 2024 Writing by Day Eight Youth and Faculty
August 15, 2024
$21.00
I Want To Be is an anthology of writing by Washington, D.C.-area youth and the faculty who taught them. Contributors include participants in Day Eight’s summer writing camp and out-of-school enrichment programs and faculty members Regie Cabico, Rebecca Bishophall, Brandon Douglas, Liana Castro, Asha Hardnett and Jessica Simon. I Want to Be is edited by Robert Bettmann, program director for Day Eight and co-director of Day Eight’s summer writing camps. Cover art for the book is by Wayson Jones.
A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex and other Hyperboles, Mysteries, Parables and Fantasias by Regie Cabico
November 15, 2023
$18.00
Regie Cabico’s first full-length poetry collection includes more than four dozen new poems that reflect on the poet’s life. Inspired by Frank O’Hara and Gertrude Stein, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex is a multiverse of surreal and witty meditations, a tarot of micro-poetic divinations. Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri wrote, “This is poetry of light and hope.” Cover art for the book is by Wayson Jones.
Dipped in Cerulean by Brandon Douglas
October 10, 2023
$18.00
Dipped in Cerulean is the debut collection by Washington, D.C. poet Brandon Douglas, winner of the 2023 DC Poet Project. The book documents the author’s coming of age, including his experiences from youth to fatherhood and from student to teacher. Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, author of The Summoning of Black Joy, wrote, “Navigates the waters of deep parental love, social justice, and the Black experience with gentle honesty, thoughtful reflection and jolting sensitivity. A deeply connecting collection.” Cover art for the book is by Yetunde Sapp.