Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani’s unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry.
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This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.
10/9/26, 7:00pm
Larry Crane presents Making Music, in conversation with John McEntire.
10/10/26, 3:00pm
Karen Lord presents The Angel at the Gates.
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The new paperback edition of David Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time, is now available for preorder.
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