Just Buffalo Literary Center Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Look: Poems
Solmaz Sharif
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
Bestiary: Poems
Donika Kelly
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
The Ends of Exile: The Lex Chronicles, Book 3
Crystal Crawford
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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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo
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
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
"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
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
“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
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Ariel Aberg-Riger
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
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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
Stilettos in a Rifle Range
Tyrone Williams
Poem of the Week: “stilettos in a rifle range” by Tyrone Williams ✨ https://t.co/ng5H8HflDz
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