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Book Cover for: Look: Poems, Solmaz Sharif

Look: Poems

Solmaz Sharif
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JBWC's Youth Ambassadors have an amazing workshop planned for this Thursday, inspired by Solmaz Sharif's LOOK. Sharpie markers! Erasure poetry! Writing as resistance! Teen writers, join us at JB or from home: https://t.co/rY4WA4xHq1

Paperback, 2016

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bestiary: Poems, Donika Kelly

Bestiary: Poems

Donika Kelly
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DONIKA KELLY INSPIRED US! Old picture (from 2016, of poems written by JBWC teens inspired by @officialdonika), evergreen statement. We're thrilled to have Donika as final judge for this year's Poetry Fellowship. Maybe your poems will inspire her this time? https://t.co/ODZY9p9kzP https://t.co/zZzIBgeqO9

Paperback, 2016

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ends of Exile: The Lex Chronicles, Book 3, Crystal Crawford

The Ends of Exile: The Lex Chronicles, Book 3

Crystal Crawford
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Poem of the Week: “The End of Exile” by Solmaz Sharif ✨ Sharif will join Tyrone Williams, Plant Water, and Brandon Watson at the Silo City Reading Series on Saturday, June 10th. Poem of the Week is curated by @RDPohl1 Click the link in bio to learn and read more 📚 https://t.co/0rp3CYa6F5

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Book Cover for: Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, Joy Harjo

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is the author of ten collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Weav­ing Sun­down in a Scar­let Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (W.W. Norton, 2022)

Hardcover, 2022

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel
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"I had a bunch of core memories that I knew instinctively were a part of the narrative, but I didn’t know how or where they fit. ... The linear story turned into a spiral, circling back over the same events as I explored each idea in turn." - Alison Bechdel, on writing FUN HOME

Paperback, 2007

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
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“Caste by Isabel Wilkerson is a must read for humanity” - Oprah She’s kind of a big deal. Join us for an evening with National Book Critics Circle Award-winning & bestselling author Isabel Wilkerson April 26th at @KleinhansBflo Click the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟 https://t.co/nOvlndZ2Tb https://t.co/zvWV7nw18P

Paperback, 2023

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
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If you've already read Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway #1 bestselling novel, All the Light We Cannot See, then you already get it. Grab your ticket to see the author on stage on March 30. Virtual & in-person tickets @justbuffalolit are going fast! https://t.co/uy6PciLiaE

Hardcover, 2017

$38.80$19.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History, Ariel Aberg-Riger

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

Ariel Aberg-Riger
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Visual storyteller @arielabergriger returns to the Just Buffalo Writing Center today (4:30-6pm) to discuss & explore the processes behind the creation of her new book, AMERICA REDUX: VISUAL STORIES FROM OUR DYNAMIC HISTORY. https://t.co/LshZFpX0Hi

Hardcover, 2023

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
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If you've already read Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway #1 bestselling novel, All the Light We Cannot See, then you already get it. Grab your ticket to see the author on stage on March 30. Virtual & in-person tickets @justbuffalolit are going fast! https://t.co/uy6PciLiaE

Paperback, 2017

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Stilettos in a Rifle Range, Tyrone Williams

Stilettos in a Rifle Range

Tyrone Williams
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Poem of the Week: “stilettos in a rifle range” by Tyrone Williams ✨ https://t.co/ng5H8HflDz

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