African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans
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- I, too, am America, Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African-American poetry, [selected by] Catherine Clinton
- Bastards of the Reagan era, Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Chrome valley, poems, Mahogany L. Browne
- It's raining laughter, poems by Nikki Grimes ; photographs by Myles C. Pinkney
- My people, Langston Hughes ; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr
- Soulscript;, Afro-American poetry
- The sweet breath of life, a poetic narrative of the African-American family, poems by Ntozake Shange ; photos edited by Frank Stewart ; photographs by Kamoinge Inc
- This is the dream, by Diane Z. Shore & Jessica Alexander ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Isn't my name magical?, by James Berry ; illustrated by Shelly Hehenberger
- The collected works of Phillis Wheatley, edited with an essay by John C. Shields
- Black boys dreaming, virtual verse & pandemic prose, by Khalil Barnes, Chase Cooper, Kevin Crawford, & Josiah Ouabo ; illustrated by Tony White
- Carver, a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson
- Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
- Spin a soft Black song, poems for children, by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by George Martins
- Imperial liquor, Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- A place inside of me, a poem to heal the heart, written by Zetta Elliott ; illustrated by Noa Denmon
- Blak al-fe bet, poems, Mitchell L.H. Douglas
- Harlem, a poem, by Walter Dean Myers ; pictures by Christopher Myers
- Martian, the saint of loneliness, James Cagney
- Lullaby (for a Black mother), a poem, by Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Sean Qualls
- A good cry, what we learn from tears and laughter, Nikki Giovanni
- Poemhood, our black revival, history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin
- Blues, for all the changes : new poems, Nikki Giovanni
- When hell freezes over, I'll skate, directed by Vinnette Carroll & Emile Ardolino ; produced by Emile Ardolino & Judy Kinberg ; music by Cleavant Derricks & Clinton Derricks-Carroll
- This is the honey, an anthology of contemporary Black poets, edited with an introduction by Kwame Alexander
- Thirteen ways of looking at a black boy, Tony Medina & 13 artists
- Wind in a box, Terrance Hayes
- American smooth, poems, Rita Dove
- Dark testament, poems, Crystal Simone Smith
- Homie, poems, Danez Smith
- The essential Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander, editor
- Harlem gallery,, by M. B. Tolson. With an introd. by Karl Shapiro
- Blues journey, by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers
- The collected poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited and with an introduction by Joanne M. Braxton
- Heed the Hollow, poems, Malcolm Tariq ; selected by Chris Abani
- Acolytes, Nikki Giovanni
- And still I rise, Maya Angelou
- Blessing the boats, new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
- Love to Langston, by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- Judas & suicide / Maya WIlliams
- The dream keeper and other poems, Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Brian Pinkney, with additional poems by Langston Hughes
- In daddy's arms I am tall, African Americans celebrating fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
- Freedom like sunlight, praisesongs for Black Americans, J. Patrick Lewis ; [illustrations by] John Thompson
- Thinker, my puppy poet and me, words by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Ehsan Abdollahi
- The 100 best African American poems, (*but I cheated), edited by Nikki Giovanni
- Such color, new and selected poems, Tracy K. Smith
- Call us what we carry, poems, Amanda Gorman
- The collected poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, editor ; David Roessel, associate editor
- Fantasia for the man in blue, Tommye Blount
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