Favorite Poets of Color

1.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 18,157 ratings
2.
The Complete Collected Poems
The Complete Collected Poems 4.44 avg rating — 13,861 ratings
3.
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda 4.43 avg rating — 20,291 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 3,763 ratings
6.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,751 ratings
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 4.26 avg rating — 2,162 ratings
8.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 4.20 avg rating — 79,707 ratings
9.
Loose Woman
Loose Woman 4.21 avg rating — 4,864 ratings
10.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,903 ratings
11.
The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi 4.39 avg rating — 49,827 ratings
12.
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
13.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
13.
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating — 21,146 ratings
15.
Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
16.
Salt
Salt 4.23 avg rating — 25,023 ratings
17.
Breaking Poems
Breaking Poems 4.38 avg rating — 203 ratings
18.
Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating — 11,323 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
20.
The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 4.32 avg rating — 3,065 ratings
21.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry 4.24 avg rating — 458 ratings
22.
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Homegirls and Handgrenades 4.42 avg rating — 699 ratings
23.
Blood Dazzler
Blood Dazzler 4.42 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
24.
Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
25.
Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar 4.36 avg rating — 259 ratings
27.
Milk and honey
Milk and honey
by: Rupi Kaur
3.96 avg rating — 776,753 ratings
28.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.09 avg rating — 3,446 ratings
29.
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) 4.34 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
30.
Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Poems of Phillis Wheatley 3.86 avg rating — 431 ratings
31.
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows 3.95 avg rating — 533 ratings
32.
Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge
Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge 4.16 avg rating — 698 ratings
33.
The City in Which I Love You
The City in Which I Love You 4.25 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
34.
Nejma
Nejma 4.03 avg rating — 6,026 ratings
35.
The Captain's Verses
The Captain's Verses 4.19 avg rating — 8,988 ratings
36.
Sleeping With the Dictionary
Sleeping With the Dictionary 3.99 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 3.73 avg rating — 408 ratings
38.
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 4.16 avg rating — 879 ratings
39.
She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses
by: Joy Harjo
4.28 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
40.
Basho: The Complete Haiku
Basho: The Complete Haiku 4.45 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
41.
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 6,089 ratings
42.
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
43.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating — 114,160 ratings
44.
Life on Mars: Poems
Life on Mars: Poems 4.09 avg rating — 9,908 ratings
45.
Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution 3.88 avg rating — 692 ratings
45.
bone
bone 4.14 avg rating — 8,355 ratings
47.
Lighthead
Lighthead 4.12 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
48.
, said the shotgun to the head.
, said the shotgun to the head. 4.21 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
48.
When My Brother Was an Aztec
When My Brother Was an Aztec 4.39 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
50.
Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995
Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings
51.
Loving in the War Years
Loving in the War Years 4.21 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
52.
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea 4.47 avg rating — 589 ratings
53.
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Frances Chung
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Frances Chung 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
54.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,460 ratings
55.
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
by: Rita Dove
3.98 avg rating — 883 ratings
56.
Vice: New and Selected Poems
Vice: New and Selected Poems
by: Ai
4.10 avg rating — 522 ratings
57.
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 4.41 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
58.
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime 4.25 avg rating — 145 ratings
59.
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley 4.32 avg rating — 340 ratings
59.
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry 4.49 avg rating — 281 ratings
61.
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
62.
The August Sleepwalker
The August Sleepwalker
by: Bei Dao
4.11 avg rating — 144 ratings
63.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.16 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
64.
The Country Without a Post Office
The Country Without a Post Office 4.28 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
64.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.28 avg rating — 419 ratings
66.
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary 3.90 avg rating — 337 ratings
67.
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
68.
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond 4.25 avg rating — 129 ratings
69.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
The Heights of Macchu Picchu 4.13 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Selected Odes
Selected Odes 4.35 avg rating — 309 ratings
71.
Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Animalia 4.30 avg rating — 825 ratings
71.
Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
by: Rita Dove
3.96 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
73.
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
by: Li Po
4.11 avg rating — 583 ratings
74.
Residence on Earth
Residence on Earth 4.32 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
75.
Domestic Work: Poems
Domestic Work: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 604 ratings
76.
Dictee
Dictee 4.03 avg rating — 3,845 ratings
76.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 4.17 avg rating — 22,746 ratings
78.
Bodymap
Bodymap 4.41 avg rating — 416 ratings
79.
Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split 4.12 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
80.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,837 ratings
81.
Black Under
Black Under 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
82.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 8,296 ratings
83.
The Heart's Traffic
The Heart's Traffic 4.46 avg rating — 84 ratings
83.
Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives 4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
85.
Dura
Dura 4.34 avg rating — 107 ratings
85.
Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter 4.09 avg rating — 33,948 ratings
87.
Outlandish Blues
Outlandish Blues 4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
87.
Soft Science
Soft Science 3.91 avg rating — 3,939 ratings
89.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 4.12 avg rating — 268 ratings
90.
Whereas
Whereas 4.38 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
91.
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 4.44 avg rating — 323 ratings
91.
Piedra de Sol = Sunstone
Piedra de Sol = Sunstone 4.33 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
93.
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong 4.14 avg rating — 368 ratings
94.
Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream
Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings
95.
Traffic Violations
Traffic Violations 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
96.
Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursiones (Pioneer (Arte Publico))
Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursiones (Pioneer (Arte Publico)) 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
96.
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 3.89 avg rating — 577 ratings
98.
On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
98.
And Still I Rise
And Still I Rise 4.39 avg rating — 10,582 ratings
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Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
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