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- Caroling dusk, an anthology of verse by Negro poets, edited by Countee Cullen; decorations by Aaron Douglas
- Daughters of Harriet, poems, Cynthia Parker-Ohene
- Seduction, new poems, 2013-2018, Quincy Troupe
- Isn't my name magical?, sister and brother poems, by James Berry ; illustrated by Shelly Hehenberger
- The collected works of Phillis Wheatley, edited with an essay by John C. Shields
- And still I rise, Maya Angelou
- Cruel cruel, Dior J. Stephens
- Selected poems, Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
- Freedom house, poems, KB Brookins
- Make me rain, poems & prose, Nikki Giovanni
- The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970, an anthology edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
- Tender headed, Olatunde Osinake
- Black Creole chronicles, poems, Mona Lisa Saloy
- Hey you! C'mere!, a poetry slam, by Elizabeth Swados ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda
- Acolytes, Nikki Giovanni
- Seeing into tomorrow, haiku by Richard Wright ; biography and illustrations by Nina Crews
- What I say, innovative poetry by black writers in America, edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey
- Leaving Saturn, poems, by Major Jackson
- The dream keeper and other poems, Langston Hughes ; with illustrations by Helen Sewell
- Alpha Zulu, Gary Copeland Lilley
- The collected poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited and with an introduction by Joanne M. Braxton
- Birth of a notion; or, the half ain't never been told, a narrative account with entertaining passages of the state of Minstrelsy & of America & the true relation thereof (from the ha ha dark side), as written by Bill Harris
- God's trombones, seven negro sermons in verse, James Weldon Johnson ; illustrations by Aaron Douglas ; lettering by C. B. Falls ; introduction by Gregory Pardlo
- Black life poetic thinking, 100 original works, R.S. Bunyon
- When rap spoke straight to God, a poem, Erica Dawson
- Stepping out with Grandma Mac, by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Angelo
- Love to Langston, by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- US (a.), Saul Williams
- DeShawn days, by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- I can't talk about the trees without the blood, Tiana Clark
- Head off & split, poems, Nikky Finney
- Selected poems of Langston Hughes
- Think black, by Don L. Lee
- We inherit what the fires left, poems, William Evans
- A Hard Summation, poems, Afaa Michael Weaver
- Let it be broke, Ed Pavlić
- Too much midnight, Krista Franklin
- Poemhood, our black revival, history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin
- Essential Hughes, Langston Hughes
- Roadmap, a choreopoem by Monica Prince
- Uses of my body, Simone Savannah
- Langston Hughes, edited by David Roessel & Arnold Rampersad ; illustrations by Benny Andrews
- For the confederate dead, Kevin Young
- In search of color everywhere, a collection of African-American poetry, edited by E. Ethelbert Miller ; illustrated by Terrance Cummings
- Here in Harlem, poems in many voices, written by Walter Dean Myers
- Bronze, a book of verse, Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson
- Blues legacy, Jacquese Armstrong
- Blues, for all the changes : new poems, Nikki Giovanni
- Gingerbread days, poems by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- The language of saxophones, selected poems of Kamau Daáood