105 African American Volumes of Poetry by Publisher, 2000 - 2012

Our program has been collecting volumes of poetry published between 2000 - 2012. Below, we've provided a list by publisher.

Here's a list by year: 105 volumes of poetry by year, 2000-2012

105 African American Volumes of Poetry by Publisher, 2000-2011

Alice James Books
• Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Shahid Reads His Own Palm. 2010.
• Matejka, Adrian. The Devil’s Garden. 2003.

Ausable Press
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. Alpha Zulu. 2008.

Beacon Press
• Sanchez, Sonia. Morning Haiku. 2010.

Bloodaxe Books
• Alexander, Elizabeth. American Blue. 2006.

BOA Editions
• Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988–2000. 2000.
• Clifton, Lucille. Mercy. 2004.
• Clifton, Lucille. Voices. 2008.

Bucknell University Press
• Mullen, Harryette. Blues Baby. 2002.

Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Joseph, Allison. Imitation of Life. 2003.

Carolina Wren Press
• Shockley, Evie. a half-red sea. 2006.

Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Seibles, Tim. Buffalo Head Solos. 2004.

Coffee House Press
• Smith, Patricia. Teahouse of the Almighty. 2006.
• Smith, Patricia. Blood Dazzler. 2008.
• Troupe, Quincy. Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems. 2002.
• Troupe, Quincy. The Architecture of Language. 2006.
• Troupe, Quincy. Errancities, 2012.

Curbstone
• Miller, E Ethelbert. How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love. 2004.

Cypher Books
• Murillo, John. Up Jump the Boogie. 2010.

Epic Press
• Hyman, Ramona. In the Sanctuary of a South. 2005.

Firebrand Books
• Derricote, Toi. Natural Birth. 2000.

G.P. Putnam’s Sons
• Eady, Cornelius. Brutal Imagination. 2001.
• Eady, Cornelius. Hardheaded Weather. 2008.

Four Way Books
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. The Subsequent Blues. 2004.

Front Street
• Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: a life in poems. 2001.

Graywolf Press
• Alexander, Elizabeth. American Sublime. 2005.
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Antebellum Dream Book. 2001.
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Praise Song for the Day. 2009.
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Crave Radiance New and Selected Poems. 2010.
• Ellis, Thomas Sayers. The Maverick Room. 2005.
• Ellis, Thomas Sayers. Skin Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. 2010.
• Mullen, Harryette. Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse and Drudge. 2006.
• Smith, Tracy K. The Body's Question. 2003.
• Trethewey, Natasha. Domestic Work. 2000.
• Trethewey, Natasha. Bellocq's Ophelia. 2002.

Hanging Loose Press
• Cortez, Jayne. Jazz Fan Looks Back. 2002.
• Cortez, Jayne. On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems. 2009.

Hollyridge Press
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. Black Poem. 2005.

House of Nehesi
• Baraka, Amiri. Somebody Blew up America and Other Poems. 2003.

Houghton Mifflin
• Trethewey, Natasha. Native Guard. 2006.

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
• Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till. 2005.

Innerlight Publishers
• Finney, Nikky. The World is Round. 2003.

Ishmael Reed Publishing Company
• Baraka, Amiri. Un poco Low Coup. 2004.

Knopf
• Young, Kevin. jelly roll. 2003.
• Young, Kevin. Black Maria. 2005.
• Young, Kevin. For the Confederate Dead. 2007.
• Young, Kevin. Dear Darkness. 2008.
• Young, Kevin. Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. 2011.

Library of America
• Brooks, Gwendolyn. The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks. 2005.

Mayapple Press
• Joseph, Allison. Voice: Poems. 2009.

Moore Black Press
• Moore, Jessica Care. The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto. 2003.

MTV Pocketbooks
• Williams, Saul. The Dead Emcee Scrolls. 2006.

New Issues/Western Michigan University
• Brown, Jericho. Please. 2008.

New World Library
• Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems. 2010.

Nightshade Press
• Medina, Tony. My Old Man Was Always on the Lam. 2010.

Norton and Company
• Ai. Dread: Poems. 2003.
• Ai. No Surrender: Poems. 2010.
• Dove, Rita. American Smooth: Poems. 2004.
• Dove, Rita. Sonata Mulattica. 2009.
• Jackson, Major. Hoops: Poems. 2007.
• Jackson, Major. Holding Company. 2010.
• Jordan, A. Van. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A. 2004.
• Jordan, A. Van. Quantum Lyrics: Poems. 2007.

Penguin Books
• Hayes, Terrance. Hip Logic. 2002.
• Hayes, Terrance. Wind in a Box. 2006.
• Hayes, Terrance. Lighthead. 2010.
• Matejka, Adrian. Mixology. 2009.

Persea Books
• Moss, Thylias. Slave Moth. 2004.

Red Hen Press
• Douglas, Mitchell L. H. Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem. Red Hen Press, 2009.
• Dungy, Camille T. What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. Red Hen Press, 2006.
• Dungy, Camille T. Suck on the Marrow. Red Hen Press, 2010.

Runagate Multimedia
• Robinson, Kysha Brown. Spherical Woman. 2009.

Salt Publishing
• Floyd-Miller, Cherryl. Exquisite Heats. 2008.

Soft Skulls Press
• Powell, Kevin. No Sleep Till Brooklyn. 2008.

Steel Toe Books
• Joseph, Allison. My Father’s Kites. 2010.

Third World Press
• Ellis, Kelly Norman. Tougaloo Blues. 2003.
• Cherry, James. Honoring the Ancestors. 2008.
• Lansana, Quraysh A. They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems. 2004.
• Madhubuti, Haki. R. Run Toward Fear. 2004.
• Madhubuti, Haki. Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009. 2009.
• Medina, Tony. Committed to Breathing. 2003.
• Moore, Opal. Lot’s Daughters. 2004.

Tia Chucha Press
• Jordan, A. Van. Rise. 2001.
• Shannon, Angela. Singing the Bones Together. 2003.

Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press
• Finney, Nikky. Head Off & Split. 2011.

Truman State University Press
• Saloy, Mona Lisa. Red Beans and Ricely Yours. 2005.

Tupelo Press
• Johnson, Amaud Jamaul. Red Summer. 2006.

University of California Press
• Mullen, Harryette. Sleeping with the Dictionary. 2002.

University of Georgia Press
• Jackson, Major. Leaving Saturn. 2002.

University Press of Kentucky
• Walker, Frank X. Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York. 2004.
• Walker, Frank X. When Winter Come: The Ascension of York. 2008.

University of Pittsburgh Press
• Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae. Black Swan. 2002.
• Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae .Open Interval. 2009.

Vintage Books
• Hughes, Langston. Let America Be America Again. 2004.
• Hughes, Langston. Vintage Hughes. 2004.

Wave Books
• Jess, Tyehimba. Leadbelly. 2005.

Wayne State University Press
• Francis, Vievee. Blue-Tail Fly. 2006.

Wesleyan Press
• Komunyakaa, Yusef . Pleasure Dome. 2001.
• Shockley, Evie. the new black. 2011.

William Morrow
• Giovanni, Nikki. Bicycles: Love Poems. 2009.

Willow Books
• Betts, Tara. Arc & Hue. 2009.

Word Press
• Joseph, Allison. Worldly Pleasures. 2004.

Wordsong
• Alexander, Elizabeth and Marilyn Nelson. Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color. 2007.

Xlibris
• White, Marcus Uganda. Morning Come Quick: Poems from War and Love, 2008.

Zoland Books
• Young, Kevin. To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor. 2001.