African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans
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Incoming Resources
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- Followers of the North Star, rhymes about African American heroes, heroines, and historical times, by Susan Altman and Susan Lechner ; illustrated by Byron Wooden
- I am the darker brother, an anthology of modern poems by African Americans, edited and with an afterword by Arnold Adoff ; drawings by Benny Andrews ; introduction by Rudine Sims Bishop ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni
- The dream keeper and other poems, Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Brian Pinkney, with additional poems by Langston Hughes
- The gospel of barbecue, poems, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Conjugations and reiterations, Albert Murray
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African-American poetry, [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
- Ellington was not a street, written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
- Leaving Saturn, poems, by Major Jackson
- The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni
- Best Barbarian, poems, Roger Reeves
- Hat dancer blue, Earl S. Braggs
- Come Sunday, written by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Michael Bryant
- Black magic, Dinah Johnson ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- The palm of my heart, poetry by African American children, edited by Davida Adedjouma ; illustrated by Gregory Christie ; introduction by Lucille Clifton
- Still I rise, Maya Angelou ; art by Diego Rivera ; edited by Linda Sunshine
- One last word, wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes ; Illustrated by Cozbi Cabrera [and 12 others]
- Ain't burned all the bright, by reynolds & griffin
- Catch the fire!!!, a cross-generational anthology of contemporary African-American poetry, edited by Derrick I.M. Gilbert (a.k.a. D-Knowledge) with the special editorial assistance of Tony Medina
- Inheritance, a visual poem, Elizabeth Acevedo ; art by Andrea Pippins
- My man, Blue, poems, by Nikki Grimes ; pictures by Jerome Lagarrigue
- The Great Migration, journey to the North, by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Poemhood, our black revival, history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin
- Harlem, by Walter Dean Myers
- Blessing the boats, new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
- American smooth, poems, Rita Dove
- The collected poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, editor ; David Roessel, associate editor
- Night on Neighborhood Street, by Eloise Greenfield ; pictures by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- The Vintage book of African American poetry, edited and with an introduction by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
- Carver, a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson
- Here in Harlem, poems in many voices, written by Walter Dean Myers
- Pass it on, African-American poetry for children, selected by Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Every shut eye ain't asleep, an anthology of poetry by African Americans since 1945, edited by Michael Harper and Anthony Walton
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Such color, new and selected poems, Tracy K. Smith
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