Truxal Library Special Topic Guide: Telling Our Story: African American Poetry, Past and Present
In honor of Black History Month 2022, Truxal Library celebrates African American poetry, from Phylis Wheatley to the present day.
African American Poetry –by Call Number: PS591 .N4 A37 2020ISBN: 9781598536669Publication Date: 2020-10-20
American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time –by Call Number: PS586 .A545 2018ISBN: 9781555978389Publication Date: 2018-09-04
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin –by Call Number: PS3558 .A8378 A6 2018ISBN: 9780143133186Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Antebellum Dream Book –by Call Number: PS3551.L3494 A5 2001ISBN: 155597354XPublication Date: 2001-09-01
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry –by Call Number: PS310 .N4 R35 2013ISBN: 9780472035687Publication Date: 2013-08-29
Black Girl Magic: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 –by Call Number: PS591 .N4 B477 2018ISBN: 9781608468577Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Black Maria: Being the Adventures of Delilah Redbone & A.K.A. Jones –by Call Number: PS3575 .O798 B57 2005ISBN: 1400042097Publication Date: 2005-02-01
The Black Maria: Poems –by Call Number: PS3607 .I47 A6 2016ISBN: 9781942683025Publication Date: 2016-04-12
Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification –by Call Number: PS310 .J39 B57 2014ISBN: 9781409428367Publication Date: 2019-02-28
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature PoetryCall Number: PS591 .N4 B49 2009ISBN: 9780820332772Publication Date: 2010-01-30
Black Seeds: the Poetry and Reflections of Tariq Toure –by Call Number: PS3620 .O889 B53 2016ISBN: 9781523264940Publication Date: 2016-02-21
The Body's Question –by Call Number: PS3619 .M5955 B63 2003ISBN: 9781555973919Publication Date: 2003-10-01
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop –by Call Number: PS617 .B743 2015ISBN: 9781608463954Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Citizen: An American Lyric –by Call Number: PS3568 .A572 A6 2014ISBN: 9781555976903Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Collected Poems 1974 - 2004 –by Call Number: PS3554 .O884 A6 2016ISBN: 9780393285949Publication Date: 2016-05-17
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes –by Call Number: PS3515 .U274 A17 1995ISBN: 9780679764083Publication Date: 1995-10-31
Daddy Issues and Relationships: A Collection of Poetry –by Call Number: PS3619 .O876 A6 2019ISBN: 9781733219501Publication Date: 2019-06-15
Electric Arches –by Call Number: PS3605 .W553 A6 2017ISBN: 9781608468560Publication Date: 2017-09-12
The Emperor of Water Clocks –by Call Number: PS3561 .O455 A6 2015ISBN: 9780374147839Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Field Notes on Ordinary Love –by Call Number: PS3623 .I585435 A6 2019ISBN: 9781556595615Publication Date: 2019-05-21
The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry –by Call Number: PS310.N4 F87 1999ISBN: 0813918413Publication Date: 1999-07-29
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks –by Call Number: PS3503 .R7244 Z55 2017ISBN: 9781682260241Publication Date: 2017-01-15
A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter –by Call Number: PS3557 .I55 A6 2017ISBN: 9780062399458Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Good Stock Strange Blood –by Call Number: PS3613 .A7779 A6 2017ISBN: 9781566894715Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Head off and Split –by Call Number: PS3556 .I53 H43 2011ISBN: 9780810152168Publication Date: 2011-01-27
Heaven Is All Goodbyes –by Call Number: PS3605 .I8275 A6 2017ISBN: 9780872867451Publication Date: 2017-09-26
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country –by Call Number: PS3607 .O59774 H55 2021ISBN: 9780593465271Publication Date: 2021-03-30
How to Be Drawn –by Call Number: PS3558 .A8378 A6 2015ISBN: 9780143126881Publication Date: 2015-03-31
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans –by Call Number: PS591 .N4 I32 2002ISBN: 0689808690Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Incendiary Art –by Call Number: PS3569 .M537839 I53 2017ISBN: 9780810134331Publication Date: 2017-02-15
In the Language of My Captor –by Call Number: PS3613 .C385747 A6 2017ISBN: 9780819577115Publication Date: 2017-02-07
Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877-2000 –by Call Number: PS310 .N4 M36 2007ISBN: 9781572334922Publication Date: 2007-07-30
I Shall Not Be Moved –by Call Number: PS3551.N464 I17 1991ISBN: 0553354582Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Life Doesn't Frighten Me –by Call Number: PS3551.N464 L54 1993ISBN: 1556702884Publication Date: 1996-02-06
Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life –by Call Number: PS3613 .A7779 A6 2015ISBN: 9781937658281Publication Date: 2015-01-03
Life on Mars: Poems –by Call Number: PS3619 .M5955 L54 2011ISBN: 9781555975845Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Lighthead: Poems –by Call Number: PS3558 .A8378 L54 2010ISBN: 9780143116967Publication Date: 2010-03-30
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry –by Call Number: PS3556 .I53 A6 2020ISBN: 9780810142015Publication Date: 2020-04-15
Magical Negro: Poems –by Call Number: PS3616 .A74547 A6 2019ISBN: 9781947793187Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose –by Call Number: PS3557 .I55 A6 2020ISBN: 9780062995285Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color –by Call Number: PS591 .G38 N472 2018ISBN: 9781937658786Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin –by Call Number: PS591 .N4 O33 2016ISBN: 9780393352733Publication Date: 2016-06-21
One Woman, One Hustle –by Call Number: PS3602 .O65758 A6 2019ISBN: 9780972777629Publication Date: 2018-12-04
The Panther and the Lash –by Call Number: PS3515.U274 P3 1992ISBN: 067973659XPublication Date: 1992-02-04
Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution –by Call Number: PS866 .W5 Z56 2018ISBN: 9781479879250Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Prelude to Bruise –by Call Number: PS3610 .O6279 P74 2014ISBN: 9781566893749Publication Date: 2014-09-09
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks –by Call Number: PS3503 .R7244 Z83 2017ISBN: 9781940430867Publication Date: 2017-01-17
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South –by Call Number: PS591 .N4 R56 2007ISBN: 9780820329253Publication Date: 2007-06-30
Roll Deep: Poems –by Call Number: PS3610 .A354 A6 2015ISBN: 9780393246896Publication Date: 2015-08-03
S O S Poems 1961 - 2013 –by Call Number: PS3552 .A583 A6 2014ISBN: 9780802123350Publication Date: 2015-02-24
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart –by Call Number: PS3573 .A425 A57 2018ISBN: 9781501179525Publication Date: 2018-10-02
The Terrible Stories –by Call Number: PS3553.L45 T47 1996ISBN: 1880238365Publication Date: 1996-09-01
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love –by Call Number: HN59.2 .T484 2021ISBN: 9780593314692Publication Date: 2021-05-11
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight –by Call Number: PS3561 .N45 Z55 2018ISBN: 9781940696614Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance –by Call Number: PS551 .V56 2018ISBN: 9780820354293Publication Date: 2018-10-01
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry –by Call Number: PS591.N4 V56 2000ISBN: 0375703004Publication Date: 2000-02-15
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems –by Call Number: PS3612 .E98 A6 2015ISBN: 9781101875438Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Wade in the Water: Poems –by Call Number: PS3619 .M5955 A6 2018ISBN: 9781555978136Publication Date: 2018-04-03
We're On: A June Jordan Reader –by Call Number: PS3560 .O73 A6 2017ISBN: 9781938584459Publication Date: 2017-09-01
The Weary Blues –by Call Number: PS3515 .U274 A6 2015ISBN: 9780385352970Publication Date: 2015-02-10
We Inherit What the Fires Left –by Call Number: PS3605 .V37747 A6 2020ISBN: 9781982127398Publication Date: 2020-03-24
When Rap Spoke Straight to God –by Call Number: PS3604 .A9786 W48 2018ISBN: 9781947793033Publication Date: 2018-09-18
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia –by Call Number: PS3616 .E868 A6 2020ISBN: 9781946448545Publication Date: 2020-05-05
The Yellow House on the Corner –by Call Number: PS3554.O884 Y44 1989ISBN: 0887480926Publication Date: 1989-01-01
