105 volumes of poetry by year, 2000-2012

Our Black Studies Program has been collecting volumes of poetry by African Americans published between 2000 – 2012. The current list displays the 105 volumes in our collection by year of publication.

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

2000 [3 books]
• Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats
• Derricote, Toi. Natural Birth
• Trethewey, Natasha. Domestic Work

2001 [6 books]
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Antebellum Dream Book
• Eady, Cornelius. Brutal Imagination
• Jordan, A. Van. Rise
• Komunyakaa, Yusef . Pleasure Dome
• Nelson, Marilyn. Carver
• Young, Kevin. To Repel Ghosts

2002 [8 books]
• Cortez, Jayne. Jazz Fan Looks Back
• Hayes, Terrance. Hip Logic
• Jackson, Major. Leaving Saturn
• Mullen, Harryette. Blues Baby
• Mullen, Harryette. Sleeping with the Dictionary
• Trethewey, Natasha. Bellocq's Ophelia
• Troupe, Quincy. Transcircularities
• Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae. Black Swan

2003 [11 books]
• Ai. Dread
• Baraka, Amiri. Somebody Blew up America and Other Poems
• Ellis, Kelly Norman. Tougaloo Blues
• Finney, Nikky. The World is Round
• Joseph, Allison. Imitation of Life
• Matejka, Adrian. The Devil’s Garden
• Medina, Tony. Committed to Breathing
• Moore, Jessica Care. The Alphabet Verses
• Shannon, Angela. Singing the Bones Together
• Smith, Tracy K. The Body's Question
• Young, Kevin. jelly roll

2004 [15 books]
• Baraka, Amiri. Un poco Low Coup
• Clifton, Lucille. Mercy
• Dove, Rita. American Smooth
• Hughes, Langston. Let America Be America Again
• Hughes, Langston. Vintage Hughes
• Jordan, A. Van. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
• Joseph, Allison. Worldly Pleasures
• Lansana, Quraysh A. They Shall Run
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. The Subsequent Blues
• Madhubuti, Haki. R. Run Toward Fear
• Miller, E Ethelbert. How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love
• Moore, Opal. Lot’s Daughters
• Moss, Thylias. Slave Moth
• Seibles, Tim. Buffalo Head Solos
• Walker, Frank X. Buffalo Dance

2005 [9 books]
• Alexander, Elizabeth. American Sublime
• Brooks, G. The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
• Ellis, Thomas Sayers. The Maverick Room
• Hyman, Ramona. In the Sanctuary of a South
• Jess, Tyehimba. Leadbelly
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. Black Poem
• Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till
• Saloy, Mona Lisa. Red Beans and Ricely Yours
• Young, Kevin. Black Maria

2006 [11 books]
• Alexander, Elizabeth. American Blue
• Dungy, Camille T. What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
• Francis, Vievee. Blue-Tail Fly
• Hayes, Terrance. Wind in a Box
• Johnson, Amaud Jamaul. Red Summer
• Mullen, Harryette. Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse and Drudge
• Shockley, Evie. a half-red sea
• Smith, Patricia. Teahouse of the Almighty
• Trethewey, Natasha. Native Guard
• Troupe, Quincy. The Architecture of Language
• Williams, Saul. The Dead Emcee Scrolls

2007 [4 books]
• Jackson, Major. Hoops
• Alexander, Elizabeth and Marilyn Nelson. Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color
• Jordan, A. Van Quantum Lyrics
• Young, Kevin. For the Confederate Dead

2008 [11 books]
• Brown, Jericho. Please
• Cherry, James. Honoring the Ancestors
• Clifton, Lucille. Voices
• Eady, Cornelius. Hardheaded Weather
• Floyd-Miller, Cherryl. Exquisite Heats
• Lilley, Gary Copeland. Alpha Zulu
• Powell, Kevin. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
• Smith, Patricia. Blood Dazzler
• Walker, Frank X. When Winter Come
• White, Marcus Uganda. Morning Come Quick
• Young, Kevin. Dear Darkness

2009 [11 books]
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Praise Song for the Day
• Betts, Tara. Arc & Hue
• Cortez, Jayne. On the Imperial Highway
• Douglas, Mitchell L. H. Cooling Board
• Dove, Rita. Sonata Mulattica
• Giovanni, Nikki. Bicycles
• Joseph, Allison. Voice: Poems
• Madhubuti, Haki. Liberation Narratives
• Matejka, Adrian. Mixology
• Robinson, Kysha Brown. Spherical Woman
• Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae. Open Interval

2010 [12 books]
• Ai. No Surrender
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Crave Radiance
• Betts, Reginald D. Shahid Reads His Own Palm
• Dungy, Camille T. Suck on the Marrow
• Ellis, Thomas Sayers. Skin Inc.
• Hayes, Terrance. Lighthead
• Jackson, Major. Holding Company
• Joseph, Allison. My Father’s Kites
• Medina, Tony. My Old Man Was Always on the Lam
• Murillo, John. Up Jump the Boogie
• Sanchez, Sonia. Morning Haiku
• Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

2011 [3 books]
• Finney, Nikky. Head Off & Split
• Shockley, Evie. the new black
• Young, Kevin. Ardency

2012 [1 book]

• Troupe, Quincy. Errancities