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Black History Month: Poetry

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Malden Public Library

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Poetry has the power to put words to what we feel; it is both witness and inspiration, and moves us forward. This list includes just a few of the many inspiring Black poets of the last four hundred years.

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African American Poetry

250 Years of Struggle & Song

Book - 2020

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Furious Flower

Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

Book - 2020

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Black Girl Magic

Book - 2018

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The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

Black Girl Magic

by Various Authors

eBook - 2018

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The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2

Black Girl Magic

eBook - 2018

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Of Poetry & Protest

From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

Book - 2016

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Black Nature

Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Book - 2009

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The Breakbeat Poets

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-hop

Book - 2015

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The BreakBeat Poets

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

by Coval, Kevin

eBook - 2015

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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

Book - 2006

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Angles of Ascent

A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry

Book - 2013

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The Garden Thrives

Twentieth-century African-American Poetry

Book - 1996

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Of Poetry and Protest

From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

eBook - 2016

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Angelou, Maya

Book - 2009

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Angelou, Maya

eBook - 2009

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Angelou, Maya

Downloadable Audiobook - 2011

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Angelou, Maya

Downloadable Audiobook - 2018

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Hughes, Langston

Book - 1995

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Hughes, Langston

eBook - 2011

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Selected Poems

by Brooks, Gwendolyn

Book - 1963

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Who Look at Me

by Jordan, June

Book - 1969

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Directed by Desire

The Collected Poems of June Jordan

by Jordan, June

eBook - 2012

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Brown

Poems

by Young, Kevin

Book - 2018

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Brown

Poems

by Young, Kevin

eBook - 2018

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Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

Black Poets Read Their Work

Music CD - 2000

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