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We encourage reading books by marginalized voices and buying their books from your local independent bookstores. Here are some of our favorite classics and soon-to-be-classic collections!

when the wanderers come home by patricia jabbeh wesley

things you may find hidden in my ear by mosab abu toha

the tent generations by mohammed sawaie

while they sleep by raquel salas rivera

wakpá wanági, ghost river by trevino brings plenty

geographies of light by lisa suhair majaj

sister’s entrance by emtithal mahmoud

keorapetse kgositsile: collected poems

[...] by fady joudah

beating the graves by tsitsi ella jaji

dear god, dear bones, dear yellow by noor hindi

in the net by mahmoudan hawad

paper bells by phan nhiên hao

life in a country album by nathalie handal

born palestinian born black by suheir hammad

think of lampedusa by josué guébo

little big bully by heid e. erdrich

rifqa by mohammed el-kurd

the january children by safia elhillo

nazar boy by tarik dobbs

exhausted on the cross by najwan darwish

unfortunately it was paradise by mahmoud darwish

apprenticed to justice by kimberly blaeser

flood song by sherwin bitsui

of cartography by esther belin

the essential rumi translated by coleman barks

modern sudanese poetry translated and edited by adil babikir

the moon that turns you back by hala alyan

all faces but mine by samih al-qasim

you can be the last leaf by maya abu al-hayyat

birthright by george abraham

Note: This list is a suggested starting point for readers. The Sealey Challenge celebrates the reading of all poetry and poets and acknowledges that no one list can contain all the multitudes that poetry encompasses. Thank you for joining us in our quest to #readmorepoetry this August!