2016 Poetry by Black Americans

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