Poetry by Women of Color

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Salt
Salt 4.23 avg rating β€” 25,023 ratings
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Milk and honey
Milk and honey
by: Rupi Kaur
3.96 avg rating β€” 776,767 ratings
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating β€” 21,146 ratings
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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 β€” 568,908 ratings
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bone
bone 4.14 avg rating β€” 8,355 ratings
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Nejma
Nejma 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,026 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,751 ratings
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No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
by: Sarah Kay
4.19 avg rating β€” 15,620 ratings
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The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) 4.34 avg rating β€” 3,527 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating β€” 3,763 ratings
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Preparing My Daughter For Rain
Preparing My Daughter For Rain 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,516 ratings
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,234 ratings
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The Poet X
The Poet X 4.37 avg rating β€” 138,744 ratings
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Loose Woman
Loose Woman 4.21 avg rating β€” 4,864 ratings
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New 4.30 avg rating β€” 557 ratings
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B
B
by: Sarah Kay
4.48 avg rating β€” 3,851 ratings
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The Anatomy of Being
The Anatomy of Being 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,436 ratings
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And Still I Rise
And Still I Rise 4.39 avg rating β€” 10,582 ratings
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The Sun and Her Flowers
The Sun and Her Flowers
by: Rupi Kaur
4.08 avg rating β€” 364,864 ratings
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She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses
by: Joy Harjo
4.28 avg rating β€” 2,097 ratings
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 4.12 avg rating β€” 268 ratings
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Questions for Ada
Questions for Ada 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,836 ratings
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The Chaos of Longing
The Chaos of Longing 3.62 avg rating β€” 8,559 ratings
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Fuel: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series)
Fuel: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series) 4.17 avg rating β€” 672 ratings
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Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008
Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 4.25 avg rating β€” 159 ratings
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Life on Mars: Poems
Life on Mars: Poems 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,908 ratings
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Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women 4.14 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating β€” 91,854 ratings
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The Iraqi Nights (New Directions Paperbook)
The Iraqi Nights (New Directions Paperbook) 3.91 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
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Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls
Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls 3.83 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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Sea of Strangers
Sea of Strangers
by: Lang Leav
3.67 avg rating β€” 14,308 ratings
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Born Palestinian, Born Black
Born Palestinian, Born Black 4.27 avg rating β€” 403 ratings
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American Sublime: Poems
American Sublime: Poems 3.83 avg rating β€” 253 ratings
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Heaven or This
Heaven or This 4.47 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
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Desert Voices: Bedouin Women's Poetry in Saudi Arabia
Desert Voices: Bedouin Women's Poetry in Saudi Arabia 3.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems 4.19 avg rating β€” 488 ratings
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The Shining Material
The Shining Material 4.27 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Wade in the Water: Poems
Wade in the Water: Poems 4.08 avg rating β€” 3,739 ratings
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Soft Science
Soft Science 3.91 avg rating β€” 3,939 ratings
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Lord of the Butterflies
Lord of the Butterflies 4.42 avg rating β€” 6,199 ratings
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If They Come for Us
If They Come for Us 4.23 avg rating β€” 8,121 ratings
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Postcard Poems
Postcard Poems 4.50 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems 3.98 avg rating β€” 901 ratings
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Desire and the Scent of Guava
Desire and the Scent of Guava 4.33 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Inside My Mother
Inside My Mother 4.08 avg rating β€” 184 ratings
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Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty 4.06 avg rating β€” 12,107 ratings
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Bicycles
Bicycles 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,134 ratings
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Dwarf Bamboo
Dwarf Bamboo really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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Shaking the Trees
Shaking the Trees 4.08 avg rating β€” 379 ratings
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Thrall
Thrall 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,679 ratings
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The Salt-Wind: Ka Makani Paβ€˜akai
The Salt-Wind: Ka Makani Paβ€˜akai 4.31 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
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Lemons in the Chicken Wire
Lemons in the Chicken Wire 4.12 avg rating β€” 163 ratings
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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 β€” 49 ratings
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Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series)
Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.15 avg rating β€” 302 ratings
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The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems
The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems 4.09 avg rating β€” 294 ratings
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Consensual Genocide
Consensual Genocide 4.34 avg rating β€” 200 ratings
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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 β€” 34,460 ratings
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Weweni (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
Weweni (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.51 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Her Blue Body
Her Blue Body 4.61 avg rating β€” 255 ratings
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love, and you
love, and you 4.12 avg rating β€” 482 ratings
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Inside Out & Back Again
Inside Out & Back Again 4.12 avg rating β€” 65,643 ratings
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Poetry for the People
Poetry for the People 4.45 avg rating β€” 176 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 4.65 avg rating β€” 695 ratings
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Gilded Cage
Gilded Cage it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Seam (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Seam (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.47 avg rating β€” 737 ratings
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THOU
THOU really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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night-bloomer
night-bloomer 4.90 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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i'm done
i'm done really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings
fertility rites: poems, shorts and musings 3.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems
Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems 4.79 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Discipline
Discipline 4.25 avg rating β€” 148 ratings
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inflorescence
inflorescence 4.31 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Love's Third Eye
Love's Third Eye 4.33 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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The Flowering Woman: Becoming and Being
The Flowering Woman: Becoming and Being
by: Q. Gibson
4.01 avg rating β€” 102 ratings
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
by: Aja Monet
4.29 avg rating β€” 788 ratings
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A Time to Dance
A Time to Dance 4.10 avg rating β€” 4,283 ratings
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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life 3.91 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Strings Attached (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
Strings Attached (Made in Michigan Writer Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Love Poems
Love Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,839 ratings
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Daydreamer
Daydreamer 4.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Comfort Food
Comfort Food 4.06 avg rating β€” 280 ratings
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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,638 ratings
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Acolytes
Acolytes 4.20 avg rating β€” 233 ratings
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Blood Dazzler
Blood Dazzler 4.42 avg rating β€” 1,645 ratings
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The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers 3.89 avg rating β€” 577 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 β€” 2,162 ratings
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Bone Tongue: A Collection of Poetry
Bone Tongue: A Collection of Poetry 4.45 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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The Book of Light
The Book of Light 4.33 avg rating β€” 882 ratings
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Itch Like Crazy (Volume 51) (Sun Tracks)
Itch Like Crazy (Volume 51) (Sun Tracks) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose
Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,967 ratings
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.50 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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welcome to ghost town
welcome to ghost town 4.12 avg rating β€” 195 ratings
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How to survive hope
How to survive hope 3.94 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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peluda
peluda 4.11 avg rating β€” 2,072 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,813 ratings
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Dura
Dura 4.34 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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Wildlives
Wildlives 4.38 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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Mother Love
Mother Love
by: Rita Dove
4.02 avg rating β€” 642 ratings
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Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,698 ratings
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The Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
The Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series) 3.86 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
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