2019 Poetry Books by Authors of Color

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1919
1919 4.49 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me 4.35 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Soft Science
Soft Science 3.91 avg rating — 3,939 ratings
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Magical Negro
Magical Negro 4.31 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
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Build Yourself a Boat
Build Yourself a Boat 4.06 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
A Fortune for Your Disaster 4.46 avg rating — 3,176 ratings
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Up From Religion: A Poetic Memoir
Up From Religion: A Poetic Memoir 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love 4.12 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Library of Small Catastrophes
Library of Small Catastrophes 4.12 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating — 10,005 ratings
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Lima :: Limón
Lima :: Limón 4.35 avg rating — 428 ratings
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tsunami vs. the fukushima 50: poems
tsunami vs. the fukushima 50: poems 4.30 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Crazy Bunch
The Crazy Bunch 3.92 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Tonguebreaker
Tonguebreaker 4.51 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Oculus: Poems
Oculus: Poems 4.18 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Be Recorder: Poems
Be Recorder: Poems 3.96 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Hybrida
Hybrida 3.92 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Tiny Journalist
The Tiny Journalist 4.30 avg rating — 500 ratings
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Slingshot
Slingshot 4.34 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Midheaven
Midheaven 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Careless Seamstress (African Poetry Book)
The Careless Seamstress (African Poetry Book) 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Felon
Felon 4.33 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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An American Sunrise
An American Sunrise
by: Joy Harjo
4.28 avg rating — 7,692 ratings
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Feed
Feed 4.26 avg rating — 576 ratings
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How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
How to Cure a Ghost: Poems 3.56 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
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Helium
Helium 4.29 avg rating — 11,845 ratings
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Disintegrate/Dissociate
Disintegrate/Dissociate 4.19 avg rating — 820 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Moonflower in Autumn Rain
Moonflower in Autumn Rain 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Can I Kick It?
Can I Kick It? 4.35 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Love Looks Pretty on You
Love Looks Pretty on You
by: Lang Leav
3.81 avg rating — 7,025 ratings
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Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters 4.16 avg rating — 8,096 ratings
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
The Twenty-Ninth Year 3.90 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland 4.03 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Loves You: Poems
Loves You: Poems 3.88 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Octopus Museum
The Octopus Museum 3.71 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Exiles of Eden
Exiles of Eden 4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Your Body Is War
Your Body Is War 4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Nightingale
Nightingale 4.22 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Specimen's Apology
The Specimen's Apology 4.69 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers 4.23 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Rosa's Einstein
Rosa's Einstein 4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
by: Jayy Dodd
4.53 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by: Yanyi .
4.24 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Gold That Frames the Mirror
Gold That Frames the Mirror 4.78 avg rating — 58 ratings
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I: New Selected Poems
I: New Selected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Gilded Auction Block
The Gilded Auction Block 4.13 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Reenactments: Poems and Translations
Reenactments: Poems and Translations 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Monsters I Have Been
Monsters I Have Been 3.95 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Discipline
Discipline
by: Jane Yeh
3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Sightseer in This Killing City
Sightseer in This Killing City 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings
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In Her Feminine Sign
In Her Feminine Sign 4.01 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Skin Can Hold
Skin Can Hold 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field 4.44 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Careen
Careen 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets
Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Swing at Your Own Risk
Swing at Your Own Risk 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Elegía/Elegy
Elegía/Elegy 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Theory of Birds
A Theory of Birds 4.44 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Hard Damage
Hard Damage
by: Aria Aber
4.48 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Ugly Music
Ugly Music 4.43 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Ceremony of Sand
Ceremony of Sand 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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HoodWitch
HoodWitch 4.40 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist
Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Arabilis
Arabilis 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Mother Tongues: Poems
Mother Tongues: Poems liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing
Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing 4.21 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Hermosa
Hermosa 4.34 avg rating — 773 ratings
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Civil Bound
Civil Bound 4.35 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Mistress
Mistress 4.61 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Hull
Hull 4.24 avg rating — 176 ratings
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& More Black
& More Black 4.39 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Grand Marronage
Grand Marronage 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Heart the Size of a Loosening Fist
Heart the Size of a Loosening Fist 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Returning To Jaffa
Returning To Jaffa 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dispatch: Poems
Dispatch: Poems 4.41 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Smoke Girl
Smoke Girl 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Praise to Lesser Gods of Love
Praise to Lesser Gods of Love 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Revenge of the Asian Woman
Revenge of the Asian Woman 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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War / Torn
War / Torn 3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings
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while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
while they sleep (under the bed is another country) 4.31 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Losing Miami
Losing Miami 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Sonnet's Shakespeare
Sonnet's Shakespeare 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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neckbone: visual verses
neckbone: visual verses 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Family Is a House
A Family Is a House 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Honeyfish
Honeyfish 4.58 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Mannequin in the Nude
Mannequin in the Nude 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Lost Arabs
The Lost Arabs
by: Omar Sakr
4.17 avg rating — 400 ratings
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The Book of Ruin
The Book of Ruin 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Heed the Hollow: Poems
Heed the Hollow: Poems 4.44 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Tracing the Horse
Tracing the Horse 4.28 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Patricide
Patricide 4.32 avg rating — 105 ratings