Black Poets Public
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1919 by Eve L. Ewing
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the …
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In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, …
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Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, …
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us …
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In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of …
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Layering joy and urgent defiance—against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone—Trethewey’s work gives …
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The poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore, Grace Schulman
This complete collection of Moore's poetry, edited by the prizewinning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time contains all of …
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Wicked World! by Benjamin Zephaniah
A cool and happening collection of poems from the inimitable Benjamin Zephaniah Welcome to the wild and wicked words of …
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni
When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took …
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God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson (The Penguin poets)
The inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson.
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one …
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the …
