2015 Poetry by Black Americans

  1. Cornrows and Cornfields by Celeste Doaks
  2. Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
  3. Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me up at Night by Morgan Parker
  4. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
  5. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
  6. Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis
  7. Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
  8. Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
  9. From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015 by Clarence Major
  10. S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
  11. Roll Deep by Major Jackson
  12. Turning Into Dwelling by Christopher Gilbert
  13. Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  14. US by Saul Williams
  15. It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson
  16. Trout’s Lie by Percival Everett
  17. A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series, 3) by Patricia Spears Jones
  18. My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson
  19. Chop: A Collection of Kwansabas for Fannie Lou Hamer by Treasure Shields Redmond
  20. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
  21. The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop by Kevin Coval
  22. The Glory Gets by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  23. Fearful Beloved by Khadijah Queen
  24. Houses by Nikki Wallschlaeger
  25. Line/Breaks by Clint Smith