27th Letter Books

27th Letter Books We carry new, general interest books that are carefully curated to highlight underrepresented voices and excellent writing.

We are always looking to stock books that the community is interested in, so please share your book recommendations with us!

Closed Friday. Join us at the rally.
04/29/2026

Closed Friday. Join us at the rally.

May 9th we’ll have the host with the most, in shop along with members of our .detroit community for a special live podc...
04/28/2026

May 9th we’ll have the host with the most, in shop along with members of our .detroit community for a special live podcast recording of his show, ! Come through and enjoy the conversation!

Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with us on April 25th! Got some promos we’re running, too. Hope you join us!📸:
04/10/2026

Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with us on April 25th! Got some promos we’re running, too. Hope you join us!

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Peace everybody! We’re doing book club on the 25th this month instead of the 11th. The 25th is also Indie Bookstore day...
04/09/2026

Peace everybody! We’re doing book club on the 25th this month instead of the 11th. The 25th is also Indie Bookstore day, so what better way to celebrate than to gather around this beautiful book?

HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES is an incredible collection of personal essays that seamlessly blends the author’s experiences as a q***r mixed-race ocean-obsessed journalist with the lives of sea creatures that ask us to consider what it means to be in community and survive in otherwise daunting and threatening environments. It’s a beautifully written collection that we’re excited to discuss!

Join us Friday April 24 for our spring poetry event! Poster by our friend
04/09/2026

Join us Friday April 24 for our spring poetry event! Poster by our friend

SUPER EXCITED to host Norma Kawelokū Wong at 27th Letter Books on April 28th at 5:30 PM to celebrate WHO WE ARE BECOMING...
03/31/2026

SUPER EXCITED to host Norma Kawelokū Wong at 27th Letter Books on April 28th at 5:30 PM to celebrate WHO WE ARE BECOMING MATTERS.

With piercing clarity and poetic force, Zen teacher and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Norma Kawelokū Wong offers a profound call to reckon with what she calls the Human Quotient: 4 essential inner capacities—courage, compassion, aloha, and strategic wisdom—we must cultivate and embody to not just survive, but shepherd ourselves through an age of climate crisis, social fracture, and accelerating collapse.

Part visionary framework, part story-poem-instruction manual, WHO WE ARE BECOMING MATTERS invites readers into a deeper examination of how we grow, relate, and lead in times of uncertainty. Drawing on decades of Zen training, Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge, political strategy, and community practice, Wong explores the internal and collective shifts required to evolve with intention. Her teachings challenge us to release the logic of othering and splintering, to root ourselves in the mutual responsibilities of aloha and kuleana, and to step into the messy work asked of us in a timeplace of collapse.

We’re especially grateful to and for making this happen with us.

April 12 at 3 PM we welcome Tracy Zeman, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, and Andrew Collard to the shop! They will be present...
03/27/2026

April 12 at 3 PM we welcome Tracy Zeman, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, and Andrew Collard to the shop! They will be presenting works from their newly released collections, INTERGLACIAL, BOYS BEHIND GLASS, and LO-FI CITADELS. About the authors:

Tracy Zeman is the author of Interglacial (Parlor Press 2026) and Empire (Parlor Press 2020). Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, VOLT and other journals, and her essays and book reviews have been published in Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, terrain.org and others. Zeman has earned residencies from the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, The Wild and Write On Door County. In fall 2022, she spent two weeks as an artist-in-residence in nonfiction on remote Isle Royale, a national park in Lake Superior. And in 2027, she’ll visit the Arctic Circle with 30 other artists and scientists. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan and literature in U-M’s remote New England Literature Program. Originally from Illinois, Zeman currently lives outside Detroit, Michigan, with her husband, daughter, and dog, where she hikes and bird watches in all seasons.

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (2026), A Wake with Nine Shades, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, & Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize for Poetry & the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist & licensed builder, she has received grants from Yale, Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers & the Institute for Research on Women & Gender at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she lecturers in the English Department. She is at work on a biography of American poet, C.D. Wright.

Andrew Collard is a writer and teacher. His first book, Sprawl, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and a gold medal in the 2024 Midwest Book Awards. He received a PhD from Western Michigan University and has served as a poetry editor for Witness and Third Coast Magazine. He lives with his son in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

THIS WEEK we have TWO SHOWS while the comes to DETROIT!Celebrating our q***r, trans, and diasporic API MULTITUDES, thes...
03/25/2026

THIS WEEK we have TWO SHOWS while the comes to DETROIT!

Celebrating our q***r, trans, and diasporic API MULTITUDES, these works simply HAVE to be seen IN PERSON! Drop in or stop by our opening reception THURSDAY from 5-8!

Featuring ARTISTS from ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, the exhibits at aren’t to be missed!

(Shout out to for the flyer design, miss u here!)

A lot of things happening this weekend and beyond! Swipe thru for more info…Friday at 6 – Matthew D. Jones Jr. Discusses...
03/18/2026

A lot of things happening this weekend and beyond! Swipe thru for more info…

Friday at 6 – Matthew D. Jones Jr. Discusses his new memoir, Fire In My Belly which tells the author’s story of incarceration and life afterwards. About the book, longtime Detroit activist and educator Dr. Gloria House says “…[this memoir] is especially relevant during this period of rising authoritarianism, where so much of what we assumed concerning the ‘normal’ workings of this society no longer pertains. Irrational, sinister government policies are fostering violence and chaos. The negative fallout weighs on our spirits. Addressing these issues, Matthew explores the pathology of racism, which engenders the forms of repression the government is implementing.” Matthew is a clinical therapist, an adjunct professor of clinical social work at Marygrove College and Wayne State and has served as the president of the Detroit Black Social Workers Association.

Saturday at 6 – Poets Andrew Collard, David Hornibrook, and Iliana Rocha join us for a reading and to celebrate LOFI CITADELS.

Sunday at 3 – Author Elizabeth Roberts is joined by Bethany Hedden-Clayton for a conversation about harm reduction and love. Provocative and deeply humane, In Praise of Addiction invites readers to cast aside the shame, self-hatred, and judgement associated with addiction and discover how dependency can serve as a binding force worthy of our most profound devotion.

AMPERSAND BOOK CLUB Is back on March 14 at 7 PM!The Real Life of Alejandro Mayra is an astute psychological portrait of ...
03/11/2026

AMPERSAND BOOK CLUB Is back on March 14 at 7 PM!

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayra is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend’s struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

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