2016 Poetry by Black Americans
- Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine
- Blues Triumphant by Jonterri Gadson
- Equilibrium by Tiana Clark
- The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems by Nicole Sealey
- the black maria by Aracelis Girmay
- play dead by francine j. harris
- Leaving Cle: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal by Janice A. Lowe
- The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May
- Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young
- Therapy Sessions Vol. I by Chloe Mitchell
- Dream With A Glass Chamber by Aricka Foreman
- Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney
- Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly
- Counting Descent by Clint Smith
- Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities’ Red Dress Code: New and Selected Poems by Thylias Moss
- Language Lesson by Ashaki M. Jackson
- A Study of Hands by Edwin Bodney
- The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett
- Hot Prayers Flow Like Fire: poetry, story, spoken word soundtrack for survival by Jamillah M Warner
- Blood Memory by Colleen J. McElroy
- Blue Hallelujahs by Cynthia Manick
- Haint: poems by Teri Ellen Cross Davis
- How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars by Alysia Nicole Harris
- When the Ghosts Come Ashore by Jacqui Germain
- and then we became by Devorah Major