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
Citizen: An American Lyric By Claudia Rankine Cover Image

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 By Danez Smith Cover Image

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
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Editor) Cover Image

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)

By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Editor)
$22.00
ISBN: 9780679764083
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Published: Vintage - October 31st, 1995
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) By Langston Hughes Cover Image

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)

By Langston Hughes
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679728184
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 1990
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde Cover Image

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
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems By James Baldwin, Nikky Finney (Introduction by) Cover Image

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 By Tracy K. Smith Cover Image

Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)

By Tracy K. Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555975845
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 10th, 2011
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce By Morgan Parker Cover Image

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
$15.99
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
A Fortune for Your Disaster By Hanif Abdurraqib Cover Image

A Fortune for Your Disaster (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib
$16.95
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
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) By Ross Gay Cover Image

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
A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter By Nikki Giovanni Cover Image

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
I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) By Toi Derricotte Cover Image

I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

By Toi Derricotte
$36.25
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ISBN: 9780822945666
Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - March 26th, 2019
Heed the Hollow: Poems By Malcolm Tariq Cover Image

Heed the Hollow: Poems (Paperback)

By Malcolm Tariq
$17.60
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ISBN: 9781644450093
Published: Graywolf Press - November 5th, 2019