Black Poetry Authors Everyone Should Read

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The Tradition (Paperback)

By Jericho Brown
$17.00
ISBN: 9781556594861
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 2nd, 2019
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Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (Paperback)

By Danez Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555977856
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 5th, 2017
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Homie: Poems (Paperback)

By Danez Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450109
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Published: Graywolf Press - January 21st, 2020
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)

By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Editor)
$21.00
ISBN: 9780679764083
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Published: Vintage - October 31st, 1995
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)

By Langston Hughes
$16.00
ISBN: 9780679728184
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 1990
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde
$21.95
ISBN: 9780393319729
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 17th, 2000
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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Paperback)

By James Baldwin, Nikky Finney (Introduction by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807084861
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Published: Beacon Press - April 1st, 2014
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Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)

By Tracy K. Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555975845
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 10th, 2011
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Paperback)

By Morgan Parker
$15.95
ISBN: 9781941040539
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Published: Tin House Books - February 14th, 2017
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Magical Negro (Paperback)

By Morgan Parker
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793187
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Published: Tin House Books - February 5th, 2019
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Indecency (Paperback)

By Justin Phillip Reed
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895149
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Published: Coffee House Press - May 8th, 2018
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The Malevolent Volume (Paperback)

By Justin Phillip Reed
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895767
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Published: Coffee House Press - April 7th, 2020
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Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Gwendolyn Brooks
$14.99
ISBN: 9780060882969
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - July 3rd, 2006
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Electric Arches (Paperback)

By Eve L. Ewing
$16.00
ISBN: 9781608468560
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 12th, 2017
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1919 (Paperback)

By Eve L. Ewing
$16.00
ISBN: 9781608465989
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Published: Haymarket Books - June 11th, 2019
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A Fortune for Your Disaster (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793439
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Published: Tin House Books - September 3rd, 2019
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The Complete Poetry (Hardcover)

By Maya Angelou
$30.00
ISBN: 9780812997873
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Published: Random House - March 31st, 2015
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) (Paperback)

By Ross Gay
$17.00
ISBN: 9780822963318
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - January 7th, 2015
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A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter (Paperback)

By Nikki Giovanni
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062399465
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - October 2nd, 2018
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I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

By Toi Derricotte
$29.95
ISBN: 9780822945666
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - March 26th, 2019
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Heed the Hollow: Poems (Paperback)

By Malcolm Tariq
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450093
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Published: Graywolf Press - November 5th, 2019