Welcome to Ampersand Books
It's National Poetry Month!
You're Invited! Join Hanif Abdurraqib at Writers & Books
Ampersand customers are the best customers! Thank you for supporting us and choosing to shop local. Your patronage means the world to us.
As a special note of appreciation, we invite you to join our virtual members-only salon on Thursday, April 15, 7 pm, when New York Times best-selling author Hanif
Immediately following, please stay online for our Visiting Authors event at 7:30 pm, an opportunity to hear Hanif read from his Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winning collection, A Fortune for Your Disaster, and listen in on his conversation with acclaimed poet Tim Seibles.
Click here to register for A Conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib
Click here to browse Abdurraqib's books
If you have any questions, please contact ampersand@wab.org.
30 Leaders in Asian American Literature
Ranging from South Asia to the Pacific Islands, the literary achievements of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants, as with the very experiences they chronicle, are varied, rich, and indispensable to the American literary canon. You’re invited to browse some of our favorites -- including the most recent releases from poet Victoria Chang, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, and essayist Cathy Park Hong.
Browse the full list 30 Leaders in Asian American Literature
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT: Jaw: Poems, by Albert Abonado
Albert Abonado is a poet and essayist based in Rochester, NY. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He has received fellowships for poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and he was a finalist for the Kundiman prize. Albert currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute for Technology.
This is One Way to Dance: Essays, by Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah's stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Brevity, Conjunctions, Guernica, the Kenyon Review Online, Literary Hub, Longreads, and The Rumpus. The recipient of a 2018 NYFA fellowship in fiction, Sejal recently completed a story collection and is at work on a memoir about mental health. She lives in Rochester, New York.
Browse the full list 30 Leaders in Asian American Literature
Black Lives Matter Reading List
5% of sales generated by Ampersand’s Essential Reading: Black Lives Matter is helping build the Readings on Justice collection at Rochester’s Arnett Branch Library. To date, over $200 has been raised. You are encouraged to donate and help grow the fund (select “Other” and write “Arnett Library” in the tribute field).
Browse our Black Lives Matter reading list
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