L I B R A R Y
COMING SOON
We’ve got a lot of books. We’re figuring out how to share them with you.
In the coming months anhelo anhelo will be uploading a modest but catalog of books available through our lending library. a variation on the traditional library you’ll be encouraged to leave notes and love letters in the pages you identify with, for future readers to come across.
check out and pick up will be available in Southwest Detroit and in Hazel Park.
If you are interested in this project and want to help out, get in touch via email. If you have books you want to donate (and none of the resources below need them, check out the Black Art Library and Free Black Women’s Library Detroit in particular) you can email about that as well.
Local and regional resources you should know about
The Black Art Library, founded by Asmaa Walton, is a collection of books on Black visual art including children’s books, exhibition catalogs, biographies, etc. It is intended to be an educational resource to share within the Black community and beyond. The project started this year, and is currently fundraising to expand its collection and acquire a brick-and-mortar space that will act as a non-lending library based in Detroit, MI. Read more on the Black Art Library’s fundraising page and donate today.
Paper Street Is A QTBIPOC (Queer & Trans Black & Indigenious People Of Color) & Disabled BIPOC Centered Artist Zine Press And Distro Based In Detroit, MI.
Located at 6513 Woodward Ave in Detroit, Room Project is a space for women and non-binary writers and artists to work individually and collaboratively. We are unique in that we ask our members to engage with each other around their artistic practices as a point of membership.
Inspired by OlaRonke Akinmowo’s The Free Black Women's Library in Brooklyn, New York, The Free Black Women’s Library - Detroit was founded in 2019 by Katelyn Durst Rivas. It is a free, black feminist pop-up book bike and trading and borrowing library that centers black women and femme authors, celebrating, amplifying and providing space for black women's voices and stories. This mobile bicycle library brings black femme literature to the neighborhood in order to provide representation, education and liberation through pop-up black feminist bike trading and borrowing libraries and biblio installations. Read more or donate today.
Run by proprietor Janet Webster Jones, Source booksellers is an independent bookstore in Detroit's Midtown district, a unique niche of hand selected non-fiction books and unusual sideline items that enhance your life and your lifestyle. Source specializes in history and culture, health and well-being, metaphysics and spirituality books by and about women, fair trade chocolates, shea butter products, but also hosts talks with authors, live music, mind, body & spirit classes, tai chi, yoga, qi gong & belly dancing, and conversations about seasonal and celestial changes and their impact on our lives.
ARTS.BLACK is a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives predicated on the belief that art criticism should be an accessible dialogue – a tool through which we question, celebrate, and talk back to the global world of contemporary art. The journal is edited by Detroit based writer and independent curator Taylor Renee and writer and art critic Jessica Lynne. The editors also produce an essential podcast called Care + Criticality.
A small independent book store in Southfield. Adult and youth, new and gently used books, fiction and non-fiction, rare and out-of-print books. “Books for the entire family!“ Detroit Book City also hosts 3-4 family book expos every year featuring local & national African-American Book Authors in addition to setting up at local festivals, schools, conferences and other community locations.
Black Stone Bookstore & Cultural Center is an independent African-American bookstore located in the heart of Ypsilanti. Open since 2013, Black Stone aims to be a place where journalists, writers, professors, students and bonafide lovers of African-American literature & culture will find a spot of solace in the heart. They host author readings, book clubs, poetry nights and children story times and sell clothing, oils, incense & burners, soaps, jewelry, health & beauty products, CD's, DVD's and more and can ship anywhere in the U.S.
Pages is an small independent bookshop on Grand River in Detroit. Books are an exploration. At Pages, we provide a place for you to become comfortably lost within our curated selection of literary fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature. Come make yourself at home.