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African American Poetry
A Nationwide Celebration of 250 Years of African American Poetry presented by Library of America in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

18th Century through Modernism

African-American poets : Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson by Harold Bloom
Call Number: 811.009A
ISBN: 9780791063323
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Modernist Women Poets by Robert Hass (Editor); Paul Ebenkamp (Editor)
Call Number: 811.508 M
ISBN: 9781619025424
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
I, Too, Sing America by Catherine Clinton; Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 811.08 I
ISBN: 0395895995
Publication Date: 1998-10-26

Harlem Renaissance Poets

Langston Hughes by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
Call Number: 818.5 HUGHES
ISBN: 9781555463762
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
My Soul's High Song by Countee Cullen; Gerald Early (Editor, Introduction)
Call Number: 818.5 C
ISBN: 0385412959
Publication Date: 1990
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 811.5 JOHNSON
ISBN: 9780823412075
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP JOH JUVENILE PICTURE BOOK
ISBN: 9780060541477
Publication Date: 2007-10-16
African-American Classics by Kyle Baker (Artist); Shepherd Hendrix (Artist); Kevin Taylor (Artist); Leilani Hickerson (Artist); Kenjji Marshall (Artist); Keith Mallett (Artist); Larry Poncho Brown (Artist); John Jennings (Artist); Glenn Brewer (Artist); Masheka Wood (Artist); Titus V. Thomas (Artist); Afua Richardson (Artist); Mac McGill (Artist); Jimmie Robinson (Artist); Lance Tooks (Editor); Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jean Toomer; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Alice Dunbar Nelson; Charles W. Chesnutt; Trevor Von Eeden (Artist); Claude McKay; Florence Lewis Bentley; Frances E. W. Harper; Robert W. Bagnall; Ethel M. Caution; Leila Amos Pendleton; James D. Corrothers; Effie Lee Newsome; James Edwin Campbell; James Weldon Johnson; Jeremy Love (Artist); Alex Simmons; Christopher Priest; Mat Johnson; Tom Pomplun (Editor); W. E. B. DuBois; Randy DuBurke (Artist); Stan Shaw (Artist); Milton Knight (Artist); Arie Monroe (Artist); Jim Webb (Artist)
Call Number: GRAPHIC NOVEL - AFRICAN AMERICAN CLASSIC
ISBN: 9780982563045
Publication Date: 2012-01-03
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton
Call Number: 821.9109 F
ISBN: 0374228450
Publication Date: 2001
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Call Number: 811.54 H
ISBN: 9780385352970
Publication Date: 2015-02-10

Contemporary Black Poets

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth by Alice Walker
Call Number: 811.54 W
ISBN: 0375509046
Publication Date: 2003-03-04
All along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols
Call Number: 204.4 N
ISBN: 9780310454076
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
Ardency by Kevin Young
Call Number: 811.54 Y
ISBN: 9780307267641
Publication Date: 2011-01-25
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Call Number: 811.54 S
ISBN: 9781566892186
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
The Breakbeat Poets Vol 4 by Felicia Chavez (Editor); Willie Perdomo (Editor); Jose Olivarez (Editor)
Call Number: 811.608 C
ISBN: 9781642591293
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks; Faith Ringgold (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 811.5 BROOKS
ISBN: 9780060295059
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
Brown by Kevin Young
Call Number: 811.54 Y
ISBN: 9781524732547
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Captive Voices by Eleanor Ross Taylor; Ellen Bryant Voigt (Foreword by)
Call Number: 811.54 T
ISBN: 9780807134122
Publication Date: 2009-05-01
Exquisite by Suzanne Slade; Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)
Call Number: J B BROOKS, GWENDOLYN PICTURE
ISBN: 1419734113
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
Finna by Nate Marshall
Call Number: 811,6 M
ISBN: 9780593132456
Publication Date: 2020-08-11
Heed the Hollow by Malcolm Tariq
Call Number: 811.5 T
ISBN: 9781644450093
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Her Blue Body Everything We Know by Alice Walker
Call Number: 811.5 W
ISBN: 0151400407
Publication Date: 1991-04-01
It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson
Call Number: 811 JACKSON
ISBN: 9780810130517
Publication Date: 2015-02-15
Oblivion Banjo by Charles Wright
Call Number: 811.54 W
ISBN: 9780374251017
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Of Poetry and Protest by Phil Cushway
Call Number: 811.008 O
ISBN: 9780393352733
Publication Date: 2016-06-21
Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips
Call Number: 811.54 P
ISBN: 9780374229054
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm by Alice Walker
Call Number: 811.54 W
ISBN: 1400061636
Publication Date: 2003-10-28
The Prodigal by Derek Walcott
Call Number: 811.54 W
ISBN: 0374237433
Publication Date: 2004-10-27
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott; Loveis Wise (Illustrator, Cover Design by)
Call Number: YA 811 E
ISBN: 9781368045247
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae
Call Number: 811.6 K
ISBN: 9780374240813
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
S O S by Amiri Baraka; Paul Vangelisti (Editor)
Call Number: 811.5 B
ISBN: 9780802123350
Publication Date: 2015-02-24
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Call Number: 811.6 B
ISBN: 9781556594861
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
The World Will Follow Joy by Alice Walker
Call Number: 811.54 W
ISBN: 9781595588760
Publication Date: 2013-04-02

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