Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A List of volumes featuring Persona poems (by year)

• 1998: Tony Medina's Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned To Begging.
• 2001: Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination
• 2002: Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's Ophelia.
• 2003: Ai's Dread: Poems.
• 2004: Frank X. Walker's Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
• 2004: Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
• 2004: Quraysh A. Lansana's They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems.
• 2005: Tyehimba Jess's Leadbelly
• 2005: Kevin Young's Black Maria.
• 2006: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard.
• 2008: Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler.
• 2008: Frank X. Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of York
• 2010: Ai's No Surrender: Poems.
• 2010: Frank X. Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
• 2011: Kevin Young's Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.&nbs
• 2011: Tony Medina's Broke on Ice.
• 2013: Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke.
• 2013:  Ai's The Collected Poems of Ai.
• 2013: Tony Medina's Broke Baroque.
• 2013: Frank X. Walker's Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers.

Related:
An Introduction to 208 volumes of poetry by African American poets, 2000-2013 
Persona poems

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