African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans
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- Carver, a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson
- Collected poems, Countee Cullen ; edited by Major Jackson
- My people, Langston Hughes ; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr
- Such color, new and selected poems, Tracy K. Smith
- This is the honey, an anthology of contemporary Black poets, edited with an introduction by Kwame Alexander
- This is the dream, by Diane Z. Shore & Jessica Alexander ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Every shut eye ain't asleep, an anthology of poetry by African Americans since 1945, edited by Michael Harper and Anthony Walton
- I, too, am America, Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- Thirteen ways of looking at a black boy, Tony Medina & 13 artists
- Best Barbarian, poems, Roger Reeves
- The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad ; associate editor, Hilary Herbold
- The collected poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, editor ; David Roessel, associate editor
- Selected poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
- Head off & split, poems, Nikky Finney
- Thinker, my puppy poet and me, words by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Ehsan Abdollahi
- How to carry water, selected poems of Lucille Clifton, edited by Aracelis Girmay
- Electric arches, Eve L. Ewing
- Augusta Savage, the shape of a sculptor's life, Marilyn Nelson ; afterword by Tammi Lawson
- Ellington was not a street, written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
- Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate, looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems, edited by Nikki Giovanni
- In daddy's arms I am tall, African Americans celebrating fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
- The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998, chronology and notes by Virginia C. Fowler
- One last word, wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Cozbi Cabrera [and 12 others]
- Make me rain, poems & prose, Nikki Giovanni
- The Vintage book of African American poetry, edited and with an introduction by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
- If God invented baseball, poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
- In daddy's arms I am tall, African Americans celebrating fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
- Minor notes, foreword by Tracy K. Smith ; edited with an introduction by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy
- African American poetry, 250 years of struggle & song, Kevin Young, editor
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Make me rain, poems & prose, Nikki Giovanni
- And still I rise, Maya Angelou
- Everyday mojo songs of Earth, new and selected poems, 2001-2021, Yusef Komunyakaa
- Complete writings, Phillis Wheatley ; edited and with an introduction by Vincent Carretta
- We're on, a June Jordan reader, edited by Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi ; introduction by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Of poetry & protest, from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, edited and compiled by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr
- The 100 best African American poems, (*but I cheated), edited by Nikki Giovanni
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