Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Anthologies featuring African American Poetry, 1968 - 2013

• 1967 -- For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and Death of Malcolm X edited by Dudley Randall and Margaret Burroughs
• 1968 -- I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans edited Arnold Adoff
• 1968 -- Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature edited Abraham Chapman
• 1968 -- Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal
• 1968 -- Nine Black Poets edited by Robert Baird Shuman
• 1968 -- Dark Symphony edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore Gross
• 1968 --Watts Poets: A Book of New Poetry and Essays edited by Quincy Troupe
• 1969 -- City in All Directions; an Anthology of Modern Poems edited by Arnold Adoff
• 1969 -- Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations edited by Ahmed Alhamisi and Harun Kofi Wangara
• 1969 -- The New Black Poetry edited by Clarence Major
• 1969 -- Black Poetry: A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets edited by Dudley Randall
• 1969 -- Black American Literature: Poetry edited by Darwin Turner
• 1970 -- Afro-American Literature: Poetry edited by William Adams 
• 1970 -- Black Out Loud: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Americans edited by Arnold Adoff
• 1970 -- The Black Woman: An Anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara
• 1970 -- We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets edited by Orde Coombs
• 1970 -- Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry edited by June Jordan
• 1971 -- Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology edited by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1971 -- To Gwen With Love: An Anthology Dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks edited by Patricia Brown
• 1971 -- The Black Poets: A New Anthology edited by Dudley Randall
• 1972 -- Modern and Contemporary Afro-American Poetry edited by Bernard W. Bell
• 1972 -- Black Spirits: A Festival of New Black Poets in America edited by Woodie King
• 1972 -- Early Black American Poets edited by William H.Robinson
• 1973 -- The Poetry of Black America: An Anthology of the 20th Century edited by Arnold Adoff
• 1973 -- You Better Believe It: Black Verse in English from Africa, the West Indies & the US edited by Paul Breman
• 1973 -- Understanding the New Black Poetry edited by Stephen Henderson
• 1973 -- A Rock Against the Wind: Black Love Poems edited by Lindsay Patterson
• 1974 -- Keeping the Faith: Writings by Contemporary Black American Women edited by Pat Crutchfield Exum 
• 1974 -- On Our Way: Poems of Pride and Love edited by Lee Bennet Hopkins
• 1975 -- Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing edited by Quincy Troupe
• 1975 -- The Forerunners: Black Poets in America edited by Woodie King
• 1992 -- In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers edited by Ras Baraka and Kevin Powell
• 1994 -- Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
• 1994 -- Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman
• 1994 -- I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love edited Felix H. Liddell and and Paula L. Woods
• 1994 -- In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry edited by E. Ethelbert Miller
• 1996 -- The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry edited by Clarence Major
• 1996 -- Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence eds. by Rohan B. Preston and Daniel J. Wideman
• 1996 -- African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 edited by Joan R. Sherman
• 1996 -- 360 Degrees A Revolution of Black Poets edited by Kwame Alexander and Kalamu Ya Salaam
• 1997 -- Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of African American Poetry edited by Keith Gilyard
• 1997 -- Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry edited by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
• 1998 -- Ain’t But a Place: An Anthology of Af-Am Writings about St. Louis edited by Gerlad Early
• 1998 -- Catch the Fire!!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary Af-Am Poetry ed by Derrick I. M. Gilbert
• 2000 -- The Vintage Book of African American Poetry eds. by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
• 2000 -- Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature edited by Kevin Powell
• 2000 -- Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers edited by Kevin Young
• 2001 -- Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera
• 2002 -- Role Call ed. by Samiya Bashir, Lansana, Quraysh Ali, and Tony Medina
• 2002 -- Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century edited by E. Ethelbert Miller
• 2002 -- Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature edited by Charles H. Rowell
• 2003 -- The Spoken Word Revolution (Slam, Hip Hop and the Poetry of a New Generation) edited by Mark Eleveld
• 2003 -- Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young
• 2003 -- The Norton Anthology of Af-Am Literature [2nd edition] ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie McKay
• 2004 -- Furious Flower: Af-Am Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present ed/ by Joanne V. Gabbin
• 2005 -- Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology ed. by Q. Lansana and A. Lightfoot
• 2005 -- Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry edited by Keith Tuma
• 2006 -- Gathering Ground: Cave Canem's First Decade ed. by T. Derricotte, C. Dungy, and C. Eady
• 2006 -- Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? edited by Richard Guzman
• 2006 -- The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry edited by Hilary Herbold and Arnold Rampersad
• 2006 -- Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry ed. by Aldon Nielsen and Lauri Ramey
• 2006 -- Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young
• 2007 -- The Spoken Word Revolution Redux edited by Mark Eleveld
• 2007 -- The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South edited by Nikki Finney
• 2009 -- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy
• 2010 -- The Anthology of Rap edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois
• 2010 -- So Much Things to Say edited by Colin Channer and Kwame Dawes
• 2010 -- The 100 Best African American Poems edited by Nikki Giovanni
• 2010 -- The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing edited by Kevin Young
• 2011 -- Home Is Where: An Anthology of Af-Am Poetry from the Carolinas ed. by Kwame Dawes
• 2011 -- The Best American Poetry 2011 edited by David Leman and Kevin Young
• 2011 -- The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove
• 2012 -- The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink edited by Kevin Young
• 2012 -- The Open Door: Poetry Magazine edited by Don Share and Christian Wiman
• 2013 -- Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry edited by Charles Rowell

Related:
A Notebook on Anthologies

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