160+ volumes of poetry by black women, 2000 - 2019

Off the top, you know this is a partial, non-exhaustive list. Still, I wanted to catalog some of the volumes of poetry by black women I've encountered over the last several years.

[Related: 53 black women poets, 106 poems: Audio recordings]

2019
• DaMaris Hill's A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing
• Eve L. Ewing's 1919
• Morgan Parker's Magical Negro
• Lauren K. Alleyne’s Honeyfish

2018
• Tiana Clark's I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the Blood
• Jasmine Gibson's Don’t Let Them See Me Like This
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive: After the End of the World
• Kwoya Fagin Maples’s Mend: Poems
• Monica A. Hand's Divida
• Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water
• Allison Joseph’s Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
• Allison Joseph’s Corporal Muse
• Dominique Christina’s Anarcha Speaks
• Natasha Trethewey’s Monument: Poems New and Selected
• Kateema Lee’s Musings of a Netflix Binge Watcher

2017
• Nikki Giovanni's A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
• Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches
• Airea D. Matthews's Simulacra
• Aja Monet's My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
• Morgan Parker's There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
• Evie Shockley's Semiautomatic
• Patricia Smith's Incendiary Art
• Allison Joseph’s Surviving Artistry
• Allison Joseph’s What Once You Loved
• Allison Joseph’s Taking Back Sad
• Mahogany L. Browne's Smudge
• Kamilah Aisha Moon's Starshine & Clay
• Esther Iverem's Olokun of the Galaxy

2016
• Tara Betts's Break the Habit
• Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974–2004
• francine j. harris's Play Dead
• Aracelis Girmay's The Black Maria
• Donika Kelly's Bestiary
• Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal
• Allison Joseph’s The Purpose of Hands
• Allison Joseph’s Mercurial
• Allison Joseph’s Multitudes
• Allison Joseph’s Mortal Rewards
• Allison Joseph’s Double Identity
• Tiana Clark's Equilibrium
• Camille T. Dungy's Trophic Cascade
• Cheryl Clarke’s By My Precise Haircut
• Teri Cross Davis’s Haint
• Elizabeth Acevedo's Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
• Kateema Lee’s Almost Invisible

2015
• Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Lighting the Shadow
• Celeste Doaks's Cornrows and Cornfields
• Allison Joseph’s Little Epiphanies
• Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems
• Erica Hunt's Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
• Maya Angelou's The Complete Poetry
• Vievee Francis's Forest Primeval: Poems
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Glory Gets
• Mahogany L. Browne's Redbone

2014
• Marilyn Nelson's How I Discovered Poetry
• TJ Jarrett's Zion
• Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
• Allison Joseph’s Trace Particles
• Bettina Judd's Patient: Poems
• Harmony Holiday's Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues

2013
• Ai's The Collected Poems of Ai 
• LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs's TwERK 
• Yona Harvey's Hemming the Water
• Ruth Ellen Kocher's Domina Un/blued 
• Kamilah Aisha Moon's She Has a Name 
• Brenda Marie Osbey's History and Other Poems 
• TJ Jarrett's Ain't No Grave
• Nikki Giovanni's Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
• Harryette Mullen's Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
• Remica L. Bingham’s What We Ask of Flesh

2012
• C. M. Burroughs's The Vital System: Poems
• Lucille Clifton's The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
• Monica Hand's me and Nina
• Tracie Morris's Rhyme Scheme
• Patricia Smith's Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
• Natasha Trethewey's Thrall
• Vievee Francis's Horse in the Dark: Poems
• Angel Nafis's BlackGirl Mansion

2011
• Harmony Holiday's Negro League Baseball
• Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Mule & Pear
• Nikky Finney's Head Off & Split
• Evie Shockley's the new black
• Doris Davenport's Ascent: Poems 
• Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars
• Aracelis Girmay's Kingdom Animalia
• Camille T. Dungy's Smith Blue

2010
• Ai's No Surrender: Poems.
• Elizabeth Alexander's Crave Radiance
• Camille T. Dungy's Suck on the Marrow
• Allison Joseph's My Father’s Kites
• Sonia Sanchez's Morning Haiku
• Alice Walker's Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

2009
• Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day
• Tara Betts's Arc & Hue
• Jayne Cortez's Jayne. On the Imperial Highway
• DeLana R.A. Dameron's How God End Us
• Rita Dove's Sonata Mulattica
• Nikki Giovanni's Bicycles
• Allison Joseph's Voice: Poems
• Kysha Brown Robinson's Spherical Woman
• Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Open Interval
• Crystal Williams's Troubled Tongues
• Marilyn Nelson's Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story Of The Greatest All-Girl Swing Band In The World

2008
• Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler
• Lucille Clifton's Voices
• Cherryl Floyd-Miller's Exquisite Heats
• Marilyn Nelson's The Freedom Business

2007
• Patricia Spears Jones's Painkiller: Poems
• Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson's Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color
• Tracy K. Smith's Duende
• Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard
• Nikki Giovanni's Acolytes: Poems
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s Red Clay Suite (So
• Aracelis Girmay's Teeth

2006
• Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard.
• Elizabeth Alexander's American Blue
• Camille T. Dungy's What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
• Vievee Francis's Blue-Tail Fly
• Patricia Spears Jones's Femme du Monde
• Mullen, Harryette. Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse and Drudge
• Evie Shockley's a half-red sea 
• Patricia Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty

2005
• Elizabeth Alexander's American Sublime
• Ramona Hyman's In the Sanctuary of a South
• Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till
• Marilyn Nelson's The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems
• Mona Lisa Saloy's Red Beans and Ricely Yours
• Esther Iverem's Living in Babylon: Poems and Performances

2004
• Lucille Clifton's Mercy
• Rita Dove's American Smooth
• Allison Joseph's Worldly Pleasures
• Naomi Long Madgett's Connected Islands: New and Selected Poems
• Opal Moore's Lot’s Daughters
• Mendi Lewis Obadike's Armor and Flesh
• Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
• Marilyn Nelson's Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem

2003
• Ai's Dread: Poems.
• Kelly Norman Ellis's Tougaloo Blues
• Nikky Finney's The World is Round
• Ruth Ellen Kocher's One Girl Babylon
• Jessica Care Moore's The Alphabet Verses
• Angela Shannon's Singing the Bones Together
• Tracy K. Smith's The Body's Question 
• Nikki Giovanni's The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s Outlandish Blues

2002
• Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's Ophelia
• Jayne Cortez's Jazz Fan Looks Back
• Allison Joseph's Imitation of Life
• Naomi Long Madgett's Octavia: Guthrie and Beyond
• Harryette Mullen's Blues Baby
• Harryette Mullen's Sleeping with the Dictionary
• Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Black Swan
• Nikki Giovanni's Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems

2001
• Elizabeth Alexander's Antebellum Dream Book
• Marilyn Nelson's Carver
• Dolores Kendrick’s Why the Woman in Singing on the Corner
• Sharan Strange's Ash

2000
• Lucille Clifton's Blessing the Boats
• Toi Derricote's Natural Birth
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Gospel of Barbecue
• Natasha Trethewey's Domestic Work
• Allison Joseph’s Imitation of Life

Related:
• Blog entries about black women poets
• A checklist of book lists