COLLECTIONS BY BLACK POETS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
(AND BLACK-OWNED BOOKSTORES TO BUY THEM FROM!)

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams

Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich

The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay

Please by Jericho Brown

Hum by Jamaal May

Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis

Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett

Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair

Telepathologies by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing by Charif Shanahan

Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa 

Olio by Tyehimba Jess 

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey 

I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark

A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib 

Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip

How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes

Electric Arches by Eve Ewing

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed

Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde

Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

Anthologies:

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives