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Just Us by Claudia Rankine

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Susan Steinberg reading from her novel Machine
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From this bench I like to call my bench, I sit / and watch my tree which is not my tree, no one's / tree, the quiet!

from frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

New and Noteworthy

Featured on NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Abundance
Abundance
Jakob Guanzon
New GW Edition of Classic Novel
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
New Nonfiction from ARGONAUTS Author
On Freedom
On Freedom
Maggie Nelson
Debut Collection from Caine Prize Winner
Walking on Cowrie Shells
Walking on Cowrie Shells
Nana Nkweti
God of Nothingness
God of Nothingness
Mark Wunderlich
frank: sonnets
frank: sonnets
Diane Seuss
Wild Swims
Wild Swims
Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra
First winner of the Graywolf Africa Prize
The House of Rust
The House of Rust
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
New collection from Pulitzer winner
That Was Now, This Is Then
That Was Now, This Is Then
Vijay Seshadri
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Postcolonial Love Poem
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
New nonfiction from Claudia Rankine
Just Us
Just Us
Claudia Rankine
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry
Guillotine
Guillotine
Eduardo Corral
Winner of the Int'l Booker Prize
The Discomfort of Evening
The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison
Danez Smith is our president.
Homie
Homie
Danez Smith
New novel from “one of our culture’s preeminent novelists”
Telephone
Telephone
Percival Everett
Debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown in Cuba
The Fallen
The Fallen
Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Frank Wynne
"Sonically brilliant poems that refuse borders. . . "
Catrachos
Catrachos
Roy Guzman
Timely nonfiction about our national divide
American Harvest
American Harvest
Marie Mockett
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award
The More Extravagant Feast
The More Extravagant Feast
Leah Green
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William Kittredge (1932–2020)
Graywolf Press celebrates the life and work of author William Kittredge, who died December 4 in Montana. Read full story »
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Author Claudia Rankine answers your questions about CITIZEN
Claudia Rankine, author of the July pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about CITIZEN. Read full story »

Featured Events

Apr 15
VIRTUAL: J. Robert Lennon (LET ME THINK) and Dorthe Nors (WILD SWIMS) reading and in conversation, presented by Literati Bookstore
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Apr 21
VIRTUAL: Natalie Diaz reading and in conversation with Denice Frohman on POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM, presented by Free Library of Philadelphia
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EST
Location: Philadelphia, PA view map
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Citizen in the Classroom

Claudia Rankine's groundbreaking Citizen: An American Lyric and other books have inspired programming and sparked conversations in schools, universities, and communities across the country. (Photo credit: DP Jolly.)

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore

Graywolf gave my story a chance when few others would. It's an honor and a privilege to join the roster of this world-class press, committed to disrupting the canon by taking wild, unpopular, beautiful chances.

Wayétu Moore