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- The essential Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander, editor
- The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad ; associate editor, Hilary Herbold
- Shoulda been Jimi Savannah, poems, Patricia Smith
- Jelly roll, a blues, Kevin Young
- Home is where, an anthology of African American poetry from the Carolinas, [compiled by] Kwame Dawes
- Does your house have lions?, Sonia Sanchez
- Plantation memories and other poems, by Clelia P. McGowan
- The Black Christ & other poems, by Countee Cullen ; with decorations by Charles Cullen
- For everyone, Jason Reynolds
- Blues, for all the changes : new poems, Nikki Giovanni
- Incendiary art, poems, Patricia Smith
- Our heroes, patriotic poems on men, women and sayings of the Negro race, by George C. Rowe
- The 100 best African American poems, (*but I cheated), edited by Nikki Giovanni
- Freedom house, poems, KB Brookins
- This waiting for love, Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance, edited with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath
- Concrete kids, Amyra León
- Fantasia for the man in blue, Tommye Blount
- Fields of wonder, Langston Hughes
- Beyond the frontier, African American poetry for the 21st century, edited by E. Ethelbert Miller
- I am the darker brother, an anthology of modern poems by African Americans, edited and with an afterword by Arnold Adoff ; drawings by Benny Andrews ; intro. by Rudine Sims Bishop ; preface by Nikki Giovanni
- Selected poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
- Candle-lightin' time, by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong
- P-Nut:, the lowcountry poet of Charleston/, Joseph "P-Nut" Johnson
- North star shining,, a pictorial history of the American Negro,, by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward
- I am the rage, Dr. Martina McGowan ; illustrated by Diana Ejaita
- Fifty years & other poems, by James Weldon Johnson ; with an introduction by Brander Matthews
- Lowcountry tawk, poems from the song of the cotton picker, Madeline H. Hantske
- The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, with the introduction to "Lyrics of lowly life" by W.D. Howells
- Every shut eye ain't asleep, an anthology of poetry by African Americans since 1945, edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
- Montage of a dream deferred, Langston Hughes
- Life on Mars, poems, Tracy K. Smith
- Here in Harlem, poems in many voices, written by Walter Dean Myers
- This is the honey, an anthology of contemporary Black poets, edited with an introduction by Kwame Alexander
- Color, by Countee Cullen
- Love poems, Nikki Giovanni
- Notes from 1619, a poetic 400-year reflection, Horace Mungin
- God's trombones, seven Negro sermons in verse, James Weldon Johnson ; foreword by Maya Angelou ; general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- The garden thrives, twentieth-century African-American poetry, edited with and introduction by Clarence Major
- GroundWork, new and selected poems of Don L. Lee/Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966-1996, Haki R. Madhubuti ; with a foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks and preface by Bakari Kitwana
- The sweet breath of life, a poetic narrative of the African-American family, poems by Ntozake Shange ; photos ed. by Frank Stewart ; photographs by Kamoinge Inc
- Lift every voice and sing, selected poems, by James Weldon Johnson ; with a preface by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
- Caroling dusk, an anthology of verse by Black poets of the twenties, edited with a foreword by Countee Cullen
- In Montgomery, and other poems, Gwendoly Brooks
- The path of dreams, by George Marion McClellan
- The collected poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, editor ; David Roessel, associate editor
- On these I stand, an anthology of the best poems of Countee Cullen, selected by himself and including six new poems never before published
- The Vintage book of African-American poetry, edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
- Ain't burned all the bright, by Reynolds & Griffin
- The collected works of Phillis Wheatley, edited with an essay by John C. Shields
- Please make me pretty, I don't want to die, poems, Tawanda Mulalu