JMU - Poet Database
Poets Database
African American Poet Database/Bibliography Collection
Ai | Elizabeth Alexander | Kwame Alexander | Samuel W. Allen | Maya Angelou | Alvin Aubert | Vivian Ayers | Houston A. Baker | asha bandele | Amiri Baraka | George Barlow | Gerald Barrax | Paul Beatty | Remica L. Bingham | Arna Bontemps | William Stanley Braithwaite | Charlie R. Braxton | Joanne M. Braxton | Gwendolyn Brooks | Helen Morgan Brooks | Sterling Brown | Lucille Clifton | Jericho Brown | Cyrus Cassells | Kiarri T-H Cheatwood | Cheryl Clarke | Wanda Coleman | Sam Cornish | Jayne Cortez | Countee Cullen | Waring Cuney | Fred D'Aguiar | Margaret E. Danner | Frank Marshall Davis | Kwame Dawes |Thomas C. Dent | Toi Derricotte | Owen Dodson | Rita Dove | Henry Dumas | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Camille T. Dungy | Cornelius Eady | James A. Emanuel | Mari Evans | Sarah Webster Fabio | Julia Fields | Nikky Finney | Nikki Giovanni | C.S. Giscombe | Forrest Hamer | Michael S. Harper | Frances E.W. Harper | Duriel E. Harris | Robert Hayden | Terrance Hayes | David Henderson | Safiya Henderson-Holmes | Calvin Hernton | Everett Hoagland | Langston Hughes | Esther Iverem | Angela Jackson | Major Jackson | Lance Jeffers | Ted Joans | Fenton Johnson | Georgia Douglas Johnson | James Weldon Johnson | Helene Johnson | Patricia Spears Jones | Bob Kaufman | Dolores Kendrick | Keorapetse Kgositsile | Etheridge Knight | Yusef Komunyakaa | Oliver LaGrone | Pinkie Gordon Lane | Quraysh Ali Lansana | Audre Lorde | Nathaniel Mackey | Naomi Long Madgett | Haki Madhubuti | Kenneth A. McClane | Colleen McElroy | Claude McKay | Tony Medina | E. Ethelbert Miller | Adam David Miller | May Miller |Opal Moore | Lenard D. Moore | jessica Care moore | Thylias Moss | Harryette Rommell Mullen | Larry Neal | Marilyn Nelson | Brenda Marie Osbey | Raymond B. Patterson | Carl Phillips | Wanda Phipps | Sterling D. Plumpp | Allen Polite | Dudley Randall | Eugene Redmond | Ishmael Reed | Louis Reyes Rivera | Conrad Kent Rivers | Carolyn Marie Rodgers | Mona Lisa Saloy | Sonia Sanchez | Ntozake Shange | Alfred B. Spellman | Lamont Steptoe | Sharan Strange | Elma Stuckey | Lorenzo Thomas | Julius E. Thompson | Melvin Beaunorous Tolson | Jean Toomer | Askia M. Touré | Natasha Trethewey | Quincy Troupe | Derek Walcott | Alice Walker Margaret Walker | Afaa Michael Weaver | Phillis Wheatley | James Monroe Whitfield | Albery Allson Whitman | Sherley Anne Williams | Jay Wright | Richard Wright | Marvin X | Kalamu ya Salaam | Al Young | Kevin Young
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Cruelty, 1973, Houghton Mifflin Killing Floor, 1979, Houghton Mifflin Sin, 1986, Houghton Mifflin Fate, 1991, Houghton Mifflin Greed, 1993, Houghton Mifflin Vice: New and Selected Poems, 1999, W. W. Norton & Company Dread, 2003, W. W. Norton & Company |
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Body of Life, 1997, Northwestern University Press Antebellum Dream Book, 2001, Graywolf Press The Venus Hottentot, 2004, Graywolf Press American Sublime, 2005, Graywolf Press American Blue: Selected Poems, 2006, Bloodaxe Books Ltd Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color (with Marilyn Nelson, young adult poems), 2007, Front Street Press Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (with Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon), 2008, Slapering Hol Press Praise Song for the Day, 2009, Graywolf Press |
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Just Us: Poems and Counterpoems 1986-1995, 1997, BlackWords Kupenda: Love Poems, 2000, BlackWords Dancing Naked on the Floor, 2005, Writers Lair Crush: Love Poems, 2007, Word of Mouth Books And Then You Know: New & Selected Poems, 2009, Word of Mouth Books |
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Ivory Tusks and Other Poems, 1968, Poets Press / Kriya Press Paul Vesey's Ledger, 1975, Broadside Press Every Round and Other Poems, 1988, Lotus Press |
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, 1971, Random House Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, 1975, Random House And Still I Rise, 1978, Random House Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, 1983, Random House I Shall Not Be Moved, 1990, Random House On the Pulse of Morning, 1993, Random House Phenomenal Woman, 1995, Random House |
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Against the Blues, 1972, Broadside Press Feeling Through, 1975, Greenfield Review Press South Louisiana: New and Selected Poems, 1986, Lunchroom If Winter Come: Collected Poems 1967-1992, 1994, Carnegie Mellon University Press Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems, 1995, Michigan State University Press |
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Spice of Dawns: A Book of Verse, 1953, Exposition Press |
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No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black, 1979, Lotus Press Spirit Run, 1982, Lotus Press Blues Journeys Home: New and Selected Poems, 1985, Lotus Press Passing Over, 2000, Lotus Press |
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Absence in the Palms of My Hands: & Other Poems, 1996, Writers & Readers Publishing, Inc. The Subtle Art of Breathing, 2005, Moore Black Press |
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, 1961, Totem Press The Dead Lecturer: Poems, 1964, Grove Press Black Magic: Poetry 1961-1967, 1969, Bobbs-Merrill It's Nation Time, 1970, Third World Press Hard Facts 1973-1975 (Peoples War), 1975, Congress of Afrikan People Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, 1979, William Morrow The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues, 1987, William Morrow Wise, Why’s, Y’s: The Griot's Song Djeli Ya, 1995, Third World Press Transbluesency : the selected poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995), 1995, Marsilio Publishers Funk Lore: New Poems 1984-1995, 1996, Littoral Books Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems, 2004, House of Nehesi |
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Gabriel, 1974, Broadside Press Gumbo, 1981 |
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Another Kind of Rain, 1970, University of Pittsburgh Press An Audience of One: Poems, 1980, University of Georgia Press The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods, 1984, University of Kentucky Leaning Against the Sun, 1992, University of Arkansas Press From a Person Sitting in Darkness: New and Selected Poems, 1998, Louisiana State University Press |
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Big Bank Take Little Bank: New Cafe Poets, No.1, 1991, Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Joker, Joker, Deuce, 1994, Penguin Press |
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Conversion, 2006, Lotus Press |
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Lyrics of Life, 1904 The House of Falling Leaves, 1908 |
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Ascension from the Ashes, 1990, Blackwood Press |
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Sometimes I think of Maryland, 1977, Sunbury Press |
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A Street in Bronzeville, 1945, Harper Annie Allen, 1949, Harper The Bean Eaters, 1960, Harper In the Time of Detatchment, In the Time of Cold, 1965, Civil War Centennial Commission of Illinois In the Mecca, 1968, Harper For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem, 1968, Harper Riot, 1969, Broadside Press Family Pictures, 1970, Broadside Press Aloneness, 1971, Broadside Press Aurora, 1972, Broadside Press Beckonings, 1975, Broadside Press Primer for Blacks, 1980, Black Position Press To Disembark, 1981, Third World Press Black Love, 1982, Brooks Press The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems, 1987, David Co. Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, 1988, David Co. Winnie, 1988, Third World Press Children Coming Home, 1991, David Co. In Montgomery, and Other Poems, 2003, Third World Press |
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From These My Years Against Whatever Sky, 1955, Advocate Books A Slat of Wood & Other Poems, 1979, The Whimsie Press |
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Southern Road, 1932, Harcourt, Brace and Co. The Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems, 1975, Detroit Broadside Press The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, 1980, Harper & Row |
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Please, 2008, New Issues Poetry & Prose |
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The Mud Actor, 1982, Holt, Rhinehart and Winston Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, 1994, Copper Canyon Press Beautiful Signor, 1997, Copper Canyon Press More Than Peace and Cypresses, 2004, Copper Canyon Press |
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Valley of the Anointers, 1979, Lotus Press Psalms of Redemption, 1983, Lotus Press Elegies for Patrice, 1984, Lotus Press Bloodstorm, 1986, Lotus Press Shattered Kente & a Maelstrom of Blackness : A 3-Suite of Scorched Earth Poetry & Afrikan Love Songs, 2002, Native Sun Press |
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Living As a Lesbian: Poetry, 1986, Firebrand Books Experimental Love: Poetry, 1993, Firebrand Books The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005, 2006, Da Capo Press |
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Good Times, 1969, Random House Good News About the Earth, 1972, Random House An Ordinary Woman, 1974, Random House Two-Headed Woman, 1980, University of Massachusetts Press Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1987, BOA Editions Ltd. Next: New Poems, 1987, BOA Editions Ltd. Ten Oxherding Pictures, 1988, Moving Parts Press Quilting: Poems 1987-1991, 1991, BOA Editions Ltd. The Book of Light, 1993, Copper Canyon Press The Terrible Stories, 1996, BOA Editions Ltd. Blessing the Boats, 2000, BOA Editions Ltd. Mercy, 2004, BOA Editions Ltd. Voices, 2008, BOA Editions Ltd. |
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Imagoes, 1983 Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories 1968-1986, 1988, Black Sparrow Press African Sleeping Sickness, 1990, Black Sparrow Press Hand Dance, 1993, Black Sparrow Press Bathwater Wine, 1998, Black Sparrow Press Mercurochrome: New Poems, 2001, Black Sparrow Press |
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Generations: Poems, 1971, Beacon Press Sam's World: Poems, 1978, Decatur House Press Songs of Jubilee: Selected and New Poems, 1986, Unicorn Press Folks Like Me, 1993, Zoland Books Cross A Parted Sea: Poems, 1996, Zoland Books An Apron Full of Beans, 2008, CavanKerry Press |
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Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares, 1969, Phrase Book Scarifications, 1973, Bola Press Mouth on Paper, 1977 Firespitter, 1982 Coagulations: New and Selected Poems, 1984, Thunder's Mouth Press Poetic Magnetic, 1991, Bola Press Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere, 1997, Serpent's Tail Jazz Fan Looks Back, 2002, Hanging Loose Press On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems, 2009, Hanging Loose Press |
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Color, 1925, Harper & Brothers Tableau, 1925 Copper Sun, 1927, Harper & Brothers The Ballad of the Brown Girl, 1928 The Black Christ and Other Poems, 1929, Harper & Brothers Any Human to Another, 1934 The Medea and Some Other Poems, 1935 On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen, 1947, Harper & Brothers |
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Puzzles, 1960, DeRoos Storefront Church, 1973, Paul Breman |
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Mama Dot, 1985, Chatto & Windus Airy Hall, 1989 British Subjects, 1993, Dufour Editions Bill of Rights, 1998, Random House UK Bloodlines, 2001, Overlook Press An English Sampler: New and Selected Poems, 2001, Chatto & Windus Continental Shelf, 2009, Carcanet Press Ltd |
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Impressions of African Art Forms, 1960, Contemporary Studies of Miles Poetry Association of Wayne State University To Flower, 1963, The Hemphill Press Poem Counterpoem, 1965, Broadside Press Iron Lace, 1968, Kriya Press |
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Black Man's Verse, 1935, Black Cat Press I Am The American Negro, 1937, Black Cat Press 47th Street, 1948 Black Moods: collected poems, 2002, University Of Illinois Press Awakening, and Other Poems |
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Progeny of Air, 1994, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Prophets, 1995, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Resisting the Anomie, 1995, Goose Lane Jacko Jacobus, 1996, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Requiem, 1997, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Shook Foil, 1998, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Map Maker, 2000, Smith/Doorstop Books Midland, 2001, Ohio University Press New and Selected Poems, 2003, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Bruised Totem, 2004, Parallel Press Impossible Flying, 2006, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Brimming, 2006 Wisteria: Poems from the Swamp Country, 2006, Red Hen Press Gomer's Song, 2007, Akashic Books Hope's Hospice and Other Poems, 2009, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Wheels, 2010, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Back of Mount Peace, 2010, Peepal Tree Press Ltd. 2010 |
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Magnolia Street, 1976 Blue Lights and River Songs, 1982 |
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The Empress of the Death House, 1978, Lotus Press Natural Birth, 1983, The Crossing Press Captivity, 1989, University of Pittsburgh Press Tender, 1997, University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Powerful Long Ladder, 1940, Farrar, Straus and Company The Confession Stone: Song Cycles, 1970, Paul Breman |
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The Yellow House on the Corner, 1980, Carnegie Mellon Press Museum, 1983, Carnegie Mellon Press Thomas and Beulah, 1986, Carnegie Mellon Press Grace Notes, 1989, W.W. Norton & Co. Selected Poems, 1993, Vintage Books Mother Love, 1995, W.W. Norton & Co. On the Bus with Rosa Parks, 1999, W.W. Norton & Co. American Smooth, 2004, W.W. Norton & Co. |
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Knees of a Natural Man: Poetry, 1989, Thunder's Mouth Press |
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Oak and Ivy, 1893 Majors and Minors, 1895 Lyrics of Lowly Life, 1896, Dodd, Mead and Company Lyrics of the Hearthside, 1899 Poems of Cabin and Field, 1899 Candle-Lightin' Time, 1901 Lyrics of Love and Laughter, 1903 When Malindy Sings, 1903 Howdy, Howdy, Howdy, 1905 Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow, 1905 The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1913, Dodd, Mead and Company |
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The Seasoning, 1997, University of North Carolina at Greensboro What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, 2006, Red Hen Press Suck on the Marrow, 2010, Red Hen Press |
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Kartunes, 1980, Warthog Press Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, 1986, Carnegie Mellon Press BOOM BOOM BOOM, 1988, State Street Press The Gathering of My Name, 1991, Carnegie Mellon Press You Don't Miss Your Water, 1995, Henry Holt and Co. The Autobiography of a Jukebox, 1997, Carnegie Mellon Press Brutal Imagination, 2001, Putnam Adult |
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The Treehouse and Other Poems, 1968, Broadside Press Panther Man, 1970, Broadside Press Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems, 1978, Lotus Press A Chisel in the Dark, 1980, Lotus Press A Poet's Mind, 1982, Prentice Hall College Div The Broken Bowl, 1983, Lotus Press Deadly James and Other Poems, 1987, Lotus Press Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989, 1991, Lotus Press |
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Where is the Music, 1968 I Am a Black Woman, 1970 Night Star: 1973-1978, 1981, CAAS (Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA) A Dark and Splendid Mass, 1992, Harlem River Press Continuum: New and Selected Poems, 2007, Black Classic Press |
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A Mirror: A Soul, 1969 Black is a Panther Caged, 1972 Rainbow Signs, 1974 |
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I Heard A Young Man Saying, 1967 A Summoning, 1976 Slow Coins, 1981, Passeggiata Press |
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On Wings Made of Gauze, 1985, William Morrow Rice, 1995, Sister Vision The World is Round, 2003, InnerLight Publications Head Off and Split, 2011, Triquarterly |
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Black Feeling, Black Talk, 1968, Broadside Press Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment, 1968, Broadside Press Re:creation, 1970, Broadside Press My House: Poems, 1972, William Morrow The Women and the Men, 1975, William Morrow Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, 1978, William Morrow Those Who Ride the Night Winds, 1983, William Morrow Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People, 1993, Lawrence Hill Books Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, 1996, William Morrow Love Poems, 1997, William Morrow Blues: For All the Changes, 1999, William Morrow Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, 2002, William Morrow The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 2003, William Morrow Acolytes, 2007, William Morrow Bicycles: Love Poems, 2009, William Morrow |
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Postcards, 1977 At Large, 1989 Here, 1994, Dalkey Archive Press Two Selections from Giscombe Road, 1995 Giscombe Road, 1998, Dalkey Archive Press Prairie Style, 2008, Dalkey Archive Press |
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Call and Response, 1995, Alice James Middle Ear, 2000, The Roundhouse Press Rift: Poems, 2007, Four Way Books |
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane, 1970, University of Pittsburgh Press History Is Your Own Heartbeat, 1971, University of Illinois Press Song: I Want a Witness, 1972, University of Pittsburgh Press Debridement, 1973, Doubleday Nightmare Begins Responsibility, 1974, University of Illinois Press Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems, 1977, University of Illinois Press Rhode Island: Eight Poems, 1981, Pym-Randall Healing Song for the Inner Ear, 1985, University of Illinois Press Songlines: Mosaics, 1991, Ziggurat Press/Brown University Honorable Amendments: Poems, 1995, University of Illinois Press Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems, 2000, University of Illinois Press Selected Poems, 2002, Arc Publicatons Use Trouble: Poems, 2009, University of Illinois Press |
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Forest Leaves, 1845 Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, 1854 |
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Drag, 2003, Elixir Press Amnesiac: Poems, 2010, Sheep Meadow |
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Selected Poems, 1966, October House Words in the Mourning Time: Poems, 1970 Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems, 1975, W. W. Norton and Company American Journal: Poems, 1982, Liveright Publishing Corporation Collected Poems: Robert Hayden, 1985, Liveright Publishing Corporation |
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Muscular Music, 1999, Carnegie-Mellon University Press Hip Logic, 2002, Penguin Wind in a Box, 2006, Penguin Lighthead, 2010, Penguin |
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Felix of the Silent Forest, 1967, Poets Press De Mayor of Harlem, 1970, E.P. Dutton |
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Madness and a Bit of Hope, 1991, Writers and Readers Daily Bread: Poems, 1994, Writers and Readers |
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The Coming of Chronos to the House of Nightsong: An Epical Narrative of the South, 1964, Interim Books Medicine Man: Collected Poems, 1976, Reed, Cannon & Johnson The Red Crab Gang and Black River Poems, 1999, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company |
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Black Velvet, 1970, Broadside Press Scrimshaw, 1976, Patmos Press The City and Other Poems, 1993, Spinner Publications …HERE…New and Selected Poems, 2002, Leapfrog Press Just Words, Northstar Nova Press |
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Fine Clothes to the Jew, 1927, Alfred A. Knopf The Weary Blues, 1931, Alfred A. Knopf Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1951 The Panther and the Lash, 1967, Vintage Don't You Turn Back, 1969, Knopf The Block, 1995, Viking The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, 1996, Scholastic |
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The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home, 1994, Africa World Press Living in Babylon, 2005, Africa World Press |
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Voo Doo Love Magic, 1974, Third World Press Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E, 1985, Obahouse The Man with the White Liver, 1987, Contact II Publishers Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners, 1993, Triquarterly And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New, 1998, Triquarterly |
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Leaving Saturn, 2002, University of Georgia Press Hoops, 2007, W. W. Norton Holding Company, 2010, W. W. Norton |
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My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land, 1970, Broadside Press When I Know the Power of My Black Hand, 1974, Broadside Press O Africa, Where I Baked My Bread, 1977, Lotus Press Grandsire, 1979, Lotus Press |
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Beat Poems, 1959 All of Ted Joans Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems, 1969, Hill and Wang Afrodisia: New Poems, 1971, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Teducation, 1999, Coffee House Press Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings, 2001, Ekstasis Editions |
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A Little Dreaming, 1913 Visions of the Dusk, 1915 Songs of the Soil, 1916 |
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The Heart of a Woman, 1918 Bronze: A Book Of Verse, 1922 An Autumn Love Cycle, 1928 |
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Fifty Years and Other Poems, 1917 God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, 1927 Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day, 1935 Complete Poems, 2000, Penguin Classics |
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This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance, 2006, University of Massachusetts Press |
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The Weather That Kills, 1995, Coffee House Press Femme du Monde: Poems, 2006, Tia Chucha Press Painkiller: Poems, 2010, Tia Chucha Press |
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Who Look at Me, 1969 Things That I Do in the Dark, 1977 Passion, 1980 Living Room: New Poems, 1985, Thunder's Mouth Press Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems, 1989, Thunder's Mouth Press Haruko/Love Poems, 1994, High Risk Books Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1997, 1997, Anchor Books Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, 2005, Copper Canyon Press |
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Second April, 1959, City Lights Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness, 1965, New Directions Publishing Corporation Golden Sardine, 1967, City Lights Books The Ancient Rain: Poems, 1956-1978, 1981, New Directions Publishing Corporation Cranial Guitar, 1995, Coffee House Press |
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Through the Ceiling, 1975, Paul Breman Limited Now Is the Thing to Praise, 1984, Lotus Press The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, 1989, Phillips Exeter Academy Press Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner, 2001, Peter E. Randall Publishers |
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For Melba, 1970, Third World Press Present is a Dangerous Place to Live, 1974, Third World Press When the Clouds Clear, 1990, Congress of South African Writers If I Could Sing: Selected Poems, 2002, Kwela Books This Way I Salute You, 2009, Kwela Books |
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Poems from Prison, 1968, Broadside Press Belly Song and Other Poems, 1973 Born of a Woman, 1980, Mariner Books |
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Dedications and Other Darkhorses, 1977, R.M.C.A.J. Books Lost in the Bone Wheel Factory, 1979, Lynx House Copacetic, 1984, Wesleyan University Press I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head, 1986, Wesleyan University Press Toys in a Field, 1986, Black River Press Dien Cai Dau, 1988, Wesleyan University Press Magic City, 1992, Wesleyan University Press Neon Vernacular, 1993, Wesleyan University Press Thieves of Paradise, 1998, Wesleyan University Press Pleasure Dome, 2001, Wesleyan University Press Talking Dirty to the Gods, 2001, Farrar Straus Giroux Taboo, 2004, Farrar Straus Giroux Gilgamesh, 2006, Wesleyan University Press Warhorses, 2008, Farrar Straus Giroux |
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Footfalls: poetry from America's becoming, 1949, Darel Press They speak of dawns : a duo-poem written for the centennial year of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, in 1963, 1963 Dawnfire and other poems, 1989, Lotus Press |
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Wind Thoughts, 1972, South and West, Inc The Mystic Female, 1978 I Never Scream: New and Selected Poems, 1985, Lotus Press Girl at the Window, 1991, Louisiana State University Press Elegy for Etheridge, 2000, Louisiana State University Press |
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cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms, 1995, Nappyhead Press Southside Rain, 1999, Third World Press Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, 2002 They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems, 2007, Third World Press |
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The First Cities, 1968, Poets Press Cables to Rage, 1970 The Black Unicorn, 1978, W. W. Norton & Co. Chosen Poems: Old and New, 1982, W. W. Norton & Co. Our Dead Behind Us, 1986, W. W. Norton & Co. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992, 1993, W. W. Norton & Co. |
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Four for Trane, 1978 Septet for the End of Time, 1983 Eroding Witness, 1985 Outlantish, 1992 School of Udhra, 1993, City Lights Publishers Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20, 1994 Whatsaid Serif, 1998, City Lights Publishers Splay Anthem, 2006, New Directions |
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One and the Many: Poems, 1956, Exposition Press Midway, 1956 Star by Star: Poems, 1965, Harlo Press Pink Ladies in the Afternoon, 1972, Lotus Press Exits and Entrances, 1978, Lotus Press Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia: Poems, 1934-1943, 1981 Octavia and Other Poems, 1988, Third World Press Remembrances of Spring: Collected Early Poems, 1993, Michigan State University Press Connected Islands: New and Selected Poems, 2004, Lotus Press |
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Black Pride: Poems, 1968, Broadside Press Don't Cry, Scream, 1969, Broadside Press Directionscore: Selected and New Poems, 1971, Broadside Press Book of Life, 1973, Broadside Press Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors, 1987, Lotus Press GroundWork: New and Selected Poems 1966-1996, 1996, Third World Press HeartLove: Wedding and Love Poems, 1998, Third World Press Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet's Handbook, 2004, Third World Press |
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Moons and Low Times, 1978, Ithaca House A Tree Beyond Telling: Poems, Selected and New, 1983, Black Scholar Press These Halves are Whole, 1983, Black Willow |
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Music from Home : Selected Poems, 1976, Southern Illinois University Press Winters Without Snow, 1979, Reed Books Lie and Say You Love Me: Poems, 1981, Circinatum Press Queen of the Ebony Isles, 1984, Wesleyan University Press Looking for a Country Under Its Original Name : Poems, 1984, Blue Begonia Press Bone Flames: Poems, 1987, Wesleyan University Press What Madness Brought Me Here: New & Selected Poems 1968-88, 1990, Wesleyan University Press Travelling Music, 1998, Story Line Press Sleeping with the Moon, 2007, University of Illinois Press |
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Songs of Jamaica, 1912 Constab Ballads, 1912 Harlem Shadows, 1922 Selected Poems, 1953, Bookman Associates The Dialect Poetry of Claude McKay, 1972, Ayer Company Publishers The Passion of Claude McKay, 1973, Schocken Books Complete Poems, 2004, University of Illinois Press |
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No Noose Is Good Noose, 1996, Writers & Readers Publishing Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned To Begging, 1998, Long Shot Productions Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, 2002, Third World Press Deshawn Days, 2003, Lee & Low Books Committed to Breathing, 2003, Third World Press Love to Langston, 2006, Lee & Low Books Christmas Makes Me Think, 2008, Lee & Low Books I and I Bob Marley, 2009, Lee & Low Books |
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Andromeda, 1974, Chiva Press The Land of Smiles and the Land of No Smiles, 1974, Chiva Press Migrant Worker, 1978, Washington Writer’s Publishing House Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain, 1982, Lotus Press Where are the Love Poems for Dictators?, 1986, Open Hand Publishing First Light, 1994, Black Classic Press Whispers, Secrets and Promises, 1998, Black Classic Press Buddha Weeping In Winter, 2001, Red Dragonfly Press How We Sleep On The Nights We Don’t Make Love, 2004, Curbstone Press |
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Neighborhood and Other Poems, 1992, Mina Press Forever Afternoon, 1994, Michigan State University Press Apocalypse Is My Garden, 1997, Eshu House Publishers Land Between, 2000, Eshu House Publishers |
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Into the Clearing, 1959, The Charioteer Press Poems, 1962, Cricket Press Lyrics of Three Women, 1964, Linden Press Not That Far, 1973, The Solo Press The Clearing and Beyond, 1974, The Charioteer Press Dust of Uncertain Journey, 1975, Lotus Press Halfway to the Sun, 1981, Washington Writers Publishing House The Ransomed Wait, 1983, Lotus Press Collected Poems, 1989, Lotus Press |
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Lot's Daughters, 2004, Third World Press |
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Open Eye: Haiku, 1985, North Carolina Haiku Society Press A Temple Looming, 2008, WordTech Communications |
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The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth, 1997, Moore Black Press The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, 2003, Moore Black Press God is Not an American, 2009, Moore Black Press |
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Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman, 1983, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Pyramid of Bone, 1989, University of Virginia Press At Redbones, 1990, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky, 1991, Persea Books Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems, 1993, Ecco Press Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler, 1998, Persea Books Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse, 2004, Persea Books Tokyo Butter: Poems, 2006, Persea Books |
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Tree Tall Woman, 1981, Energy Earth Communications, Inc. Trimmings, 1991, Tender Buttons Books S*PeRM**K*T, 1992, Singing Horse Press Muse & Drudge, 1995, Singing Horse Press Blues Baby : Early Poems, 2002, Bucknell University Press Sleeping with the Dictionary, 2002, University of California Press |
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Black Boogaloo: Notes on Black Liberation, 1969 Hoodoo Hollerin' Bebop Ghosts, 1974, Howard University Press |
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For the Body, 1978, Louisiana State University Press Mama's Promises, 1985, Louisiana State University Press The Homeplace, 1990, Louisiana State University Press Magnificat, 1994, Louisiana State University Press The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems, 1997, Louisiana State University Press Carver, a Life in Poems, 2001, Front Street Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem, 2004, Front Street The Cachoeira Tales, and Other Poems, 2005, Louisiana State University Press A Wreath for Emmett Till, 2005, Houghton Mifflin The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, 2008, Front Street Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World, 2009, Dial Books |
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Ceremony for Minneconjoux, 1985, University Press of Virginia In These Houses, 1988, Wesleyan Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman, 1991, Story Line Press All Saints: New and Selected Poems, 1997, Louisiana State University Press |
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26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man and Other Poems, 1969, Award Books Elemental Blues, 1994, Cross-Cultural Communications |
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In the Blood, 1992, Graywolf Press Cortege, 1995, Graywolf Press From the Devotions, 1998, Graywolf Press Pastoral, 2000, Graywolf Press The Tether, 2001, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Rock Harbor, 2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux The Rest of Love, 2004, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Riding Westward, 2006, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, 2007, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Speak Low: Poems, 2009, Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, 2004, Soft Skull Press Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire, 2008, BlazeVOX Books |
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Half Black, Half Blacker, 1970 Steps to Break the Circle, 1974, Third World Press Clinton, 1976, Broadside Press Somehow We Survive, 1982, Thunder's Mouth Press The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go, 1988, Thunder's Mouth Press Blues: The Story Always Untold, 1989, Another Chicago Press Johannesburg and Other Poems, 1993, Another Chicago Press Ornate with Smoke, 1997, Third World Press Blues Narratives, 1999, Tia Chucha |
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Poems, 1996, Baker & Taylor Looka here, now!: and Other Poems From the Fifties, 1997, Baker & Taylor |
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Cities Burning, 1968, Broadside Press Poem Counterpoem, 1969, Broadside Press Love You, 1970, Broadside Press More to Remember, 1971, Broadside Press After the Killing, 1973, Broadside Press A Litany of Friends, 1981, Lotus Press |
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A Tale of Two Toms, or Tom-Tom (Uncle Toms of East St. Louis and St. Louis), 1968 A Tale of Time & Toilet Tissue, 1969, Association Of Black Collegians Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars, 1970, Black River Writers River of Bones and Flesh and Blood, 1971, Black River Writers Songs from an Afro/Phone, 1972, Black River Writers Consider Loneliness as These Things, 1973 In a Time of Rain & Desire, 1973, Black River Writers The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems, 1991, Harlem River Press |
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Catechism of D Neoamerican HooDoo Church, 1970, P. Breman Conjure, 1972, Univ. Of Massachusetts Press Chattanooga, 1973, Random House A Secretary to the Spirits, 1978 New and Collected Poems, 2007, Da Capo Press |
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Who Pays the Cost, 1977, Shamal Books This One for You, 1983, Shamal Books Scattered Scripture, 1996, Shamal Books |
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Perchance To Dream, Othello, 1959 These Black Bodies and This Sunburnt Face, 1962 The Wright Poems, 1972 |
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Paper Soul, 1968, Third World Press Songs of a Blackbird, 1969, Third World Press how I got ovah: New and Selected Poems, 1975, Anchor Press The Heart As Ever Green, 1978, Anchor Press Eden and Other Poems, 1983 Finite Forms, 1985 Morning Glory: Poems, 1989 |
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Between Laughter and Tears: Black Mona Lisa Poems, 1995, Black Bayou Press Red Beans And Ricely Yours: Poems, 2005, Truman State University Press |
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Home Coming, 1969, Broadside Press We A BaddDDD People, 1970, Broadside Press Love Poems, 1973, Third World Press A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women, 1974, Broadside Press I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1978, Third World Press Homegirls & Handgrenades, 1984, Thunder's Mouth Press Under a Soprano Sky, 1987, Africa World Press Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry, 1994, Inbook Autumn Blues: New Poems, 1994 Wounded in the House of a Friend, 1995, Beacon Press Does Your House Have Lions?, 1997, Beacon Press Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems, 1998, Beacon Press Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems, 1999, Beacon Press Morning Haiku, 2010, Beacon Press |
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Melissa & Smith, 1976, Toothpaste Press Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions, 1977 Nappy Edges, 1978 A Daughter's Geography, 1983, St. Martin's Press From Okra to Greens, 1984, Bookslinger / Coffee House Press Ridin' the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings, 1987, St. Martin's Press |
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The Beautiful Day, 1965 |
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Crimson River: Poems, 1984, Slash and Burn Catfish and Neckbone Jazz: Poems of Praise for Etheridge Knight, 1988, Iniquity Press Crimson River, 1989, Whirlwind Press American morning//Mourning, 1990, Whirlwind Press Mad Minute, 1993, Whirlwind Press Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare, 1994, Yardbird Dusty road: A Vietnam suite, 1995, Whirlwind Press |
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Ash, 2001, Beacon Press |
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The Big Gate, 1976, Precedent Publishers The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey, 1987, Precedent Publishers |
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Chances are Few, 1979, Blue Wind Press The Bathers, 1981, Reed International Books Sound Science, 1992 Dancing on Main Street, 2004, Coffee House Press |
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Hopes Tied Up in Promises, 1970, Dorrance Blues Said: Walk On, 1977, Energy Blacksouth Press Mississippi Witness: Poems, 2001, Town Square Books |
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Rendezvous with America, 1944 Libretto for the Public of Liberia, 1953, Collier Books Harlem Gallery, 1965, Twayne |
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Cane, 1969, Harper & Row The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, 1988, University of North Carolina Press |
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From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!, 1992, Africa World Press Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure, 2000, Third World Press |
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Domestic Work, 2000, Graywolf Press Bellocq's Ophelia, 2002, Graywolf Press Native Guard, 2006, Mariner Books |
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Embryo Poems, 1967-1971, 1974 Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems 1969-1977, 1979, Reed Books Skulls Along the River, 1984, Reed & Cannon Company Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems, 1991, Writers & Readers Publishing Avalanche: Poems, 1996, Coffee House Press Choruses: Poems, 1999, Coffee House Press Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems, 2002, Coffee House Press |
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In a Green Night, 1964, Jonathan Cape Ltd The Fortunate Traveller, 1981, Farrar Straus & Giroux Midsummer, 1984, Farrar Straus & Giroux |
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Once, 1968 Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, 1973, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning, 1979, Mariner Books Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, 1984 Her Blue Body Everything We Know, 1991, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, 2003, Random House A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, 2003, Random House Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, 2010, New World Library |
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For My People, 1942, Yale University Press This is My Century: New and Collected Poems, 1989, University of Georgia Press |
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Water Song, 1985, University of Kentucky Press Some Days It’s A Slow Walk to Evening, 1989, Paradigm Press My Father's Geography, 1992, University of Pittsburgh Press Stations In a Dream, 1993, Dolphin-Moon Press : Lite Circle Books Timber & Prayer: The Indian Pond poems, 1995, University of Pittsburgh Press Talisman, 1998, Tia Chucha Sandy Point, 2000, The Press of Appletree Alley The Ten Lights of God, 2000, Bucknell University Press Multitudes, 2000, Sarabande Books The Plum Flower Dance, 2007, University of Pittsburgh Press Signals, 2008, University of South Carolina Press Like the Wind, 2010 |
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773 The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, 1988, Oxford University Press |
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America and Other Poems, 1853, James S. Leavitt Company |
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Not a Man, and Yet A Man, 1877 Twasinta’s Seminoles, 1884 An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts, 1901 At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman, 2009, Northeastern University Press |
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The Peacock Poems, 1975, Wesleyan University Press Some One Sweet Angel Chile, 1982, William Morrow & Company |
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The Homecoming Singer, 1971, Corinth Books Soothsayers and Omens, 1976, Seven Woods Press The Double Invention of Komo, 1980 Explications/Interpretations, 1984, University of Virginia Press Dimensions of History, 1984 Selected Poems, 1987, Princeton University Press Elaine's Book, 1988, University of Virginia Press Boleros, 1991 Transfigurations: Collected Poems, 2000, Louisiana State University Press Music's Mask and Measure, 2007, Flood Editions The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two, 2007, Louisiana State University Press Polynomials and pollen: parables, proverbs, paradigms, and praise for Lois, 2008, Dalkey Archive Press The Presentable Art of Reading Absence, 2008, Dalkey Archive Press |
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Haiku: This Other World, 1998, Arcade Publishing |
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Love and War: Poems, 1995, Black Bird Press |
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The Blues Merchant, 1969 Juju: Magic songs for the Black nation, 1970, Third World Press Hofu Ni Kwenu/My Fear Is For You, 1973 Pamoja Tutashina/Together We Will Win, 1974 Ibura, 1976 Revolutionary Love, 1978, Ahidiana-Habari Iron Flowers, 1979, Ahidiana-Habari A Nation of Poets, 1989 |
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Dancing: Poems, 1969, Corinth Books The Song Turning Back into Itself, 1971, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Geography of the Near Past, 1976, Holt, Rinehart and Winston The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems, 1982, Louisiana State University Press Heaven: Collected Poems: 1956-1990, 1992, Creative Arts Book Company The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000, 2001, Creative Arts Book Company Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006, 2006, Angel City Press Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry, 2008, Sourcebooks MediaFusion |
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Most Way Home, 1995, William Morrow Jelly Roll: A Blues, 2003, Alfred A. Knopf To Repel Ghosts, 2005 ,Alfred A. Knopf Black Maria, 2005, Alfred A. Knopf For the Confederate Dead, 2007, Alfred A. Knopf Dear Darkness, 2008, Alfred A. Knopf |
