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2020 Poetry by Black Americans

  1. I’ll Fly Away by Rudy Francisco
  2. Bonfire Opera: Poems by Danusha Laméris
  3. Release: YOU by Jasmine Farrell
  4. Release: Cycles by Jasmine Farrell
  5. Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney
  6. Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems by Shane McCrae
  7. We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems by William Evans
  8. Anodyne by Khadijah Queen
  9. Imperial Liquor: Poems by Amaud Johnson
  10. Blood of the Air: Poems by Ama Codjoe
  11. Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems by Erica Hunt
  12. Cardinal by Tyree Daye
  13. Seeing the Body: Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  14. Finna by Nate Marshall
  15. Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
  16. Owed by Joshua Bennett
  17. Whatever Happened to Black Boys?: Poems by James Jabar
  18. You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey
  19. All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective by Lenard D. Moore
  20. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander
  21. Negotiations: Poems by Destiny O. Birdsong
  22. How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton
  23. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman
  24. Be Holding by Ross Gay
  25. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni
  26. Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  27. The Absurd Man: Poems by Major Jackson
  28. The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  29. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems by Carl Phillips
  30. Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues by Ishmael Reed
  31. Freedom Knows My Name by Kelly Harris-DeBerry
  32. Deifying a Total Darkness by upfromsumdirt
  33. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young (Editor)
  34. Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance by Ntozake Shange
  35. Ain’t Never Not Been Black by Javon Johnson
  36. English Lit: Poems by Bernard Clay