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Black History Month: Poetry

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.

Malden Public Library

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  • African American Poetry

    250 Years of Struggle & Song

    BookNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]
  • Furious Flower

    Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

    BookEvanston, Illinois : Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2020. — 811.508 Furious
  • BookChicago : Haymarket Books, [2018]
  • eBookHaymarket Books, 2018
  • Of Poetry & Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] — PS591.N4 O33 2016
  • Black Nature

    Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

    BookAthens : University of Georgia Press, c2009. — PS591 .N4B49 2009
  • The Breakbeat Poets

    New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-hop

    BookChicago : Haymarket Books, [2015] — PS617 .B743 2015
  • Angles of Ascent

    a Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry

    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2013. — PS508.N3 A86 2013
  • The Garden Thrives

    Twentieth-century African-American Poetry

    BookNew York : HarperPerennial, 1996. — 811.508089 G218m
  • Of Poetry and Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    eBookW. W. Norton & Company, 2016