2020 Poetry by African-Americans

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I'll Fly Away
I'll Fly Away 4.31 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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Bonfire Opera: Poems
Bonfire Opera: Poems 4.57 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Release: YOU
Release: YOU 4.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Release: Cycles
Release: Cycles 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts 4.61 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems 4.14 avg rating — 207 ratings
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We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems 4.11 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Anodyne
Anodyne 4.05 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Imperial Liquor: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Imperial Liquor: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.23 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Blood of the Air: Poems
Blood of the Air: Poems 4.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems 4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Cardinal
Cardinal 4.31 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Seeing the Body: Poems
Seeing the Body: Poems 4.34 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Finna
Finna 4.47 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation 4.34 avg rating — 4,189 ratings
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Owed
Owed 4.24 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Whatever Happened to Black Boys?: Poems (Volume 11) (The TRP Chapbook Series)
Whatever Happened to Black Boys?: Poems (Volume 11) (The TRP Chapbook Series) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love 4.19 avg rating — 77 ratings
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All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope 4.30 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
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Negotiations: Poems
Negotiations: Poems 4.33 avg rating — 118 ratings
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton 4.58 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Be Holding
Be Holding
by: Ross Gay
4.56 avg rating — 727 ratings
25.
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose 4.22 avg rating — 1,499 ratings
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
Dub: Finding Ceremony 4.61 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Absurd Man: Poems
The Absurd Man: Poems 4.01 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Age of Phillis
The Age of Phillis 4.41 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems 3.97 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Deifying a Total Darkness
Deifying a Total Darkness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song 4.67 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance 4.27 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Ain't Never Not Been Black
Ain't Never Not Been Black 4.48 avg rating — 319 ratings
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English Lit: Poems
English Lit: Poems 4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings