Here's a roundup of volumes of poetry published between 2010 and 2019. It's not a comprehensive list, but does give some sense of the output among black writers over the last ten years.
[Related: A checklist of book lists]
2010
• No Surrender by Ai
• Crave Radiance by Elizabeth Alexander
• Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• Suck on the Marrow by Camille T. Dungy• Skin Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
• Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
• Holding Company by Major Jackson
• My Father’s Kites by Allison Joseph
• Mule by Shane McCrae
• My Old Man Was Always on the Lam by Tony Medina
• Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo
• Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
• Issac Murphy I Dedicate This Ride by Frank X. Walker
2011
• Ascent: Poems by Doris Davenport
• Bringing the Shovel Down by Ross Gay
• Mule & Pear by Rachel Eliza Griffiths• Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
• Negro League Baseball by Harmony Holiday
• The Chameleon Couch: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Silver by Jason McCall
• Double Shadow: Poems by Carl Phillips
• the new black by Evie Shockley
• Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
• The Armageddon of Funk by Michael Warr
• Ardency by Kevin Young
2012
• The Vital System: Poems by C. M. Burroughs
• The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
• We Did Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems by Charles Fort
• Coffle by Reginald Flood
• me and Nina by Monica Hand
• Rhyme Scheme by Tracie Morris
• The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
• Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
• Errancities by Quincy Troupe
• Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
2013
• The Collected Poem of Ai by Ai
• Bury My Clothes by Roger Bonair-Agard• Loose Change by James E. Cherry
• TwERK by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
• Ropes by Derrick Harriell
• Autogeography by Reginald Harris
• Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey
• The Cineaste by A. Van Jordan
• Domina Un/blued by Ruth Ellen Kocher
• The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
• Dear Hero by Jason McCall
• She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon
• History and Other Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey
• Silverchest: Poems Carl Phillips
• Arkansippi Memwars: Poetry, Prose & Chants 1962-2012 by Eugene B. Redmond
• Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (paperback) by Frank X. Walker
• The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver
• Sacrilegion Lamar Wilson
2014
• The New Testament by Jericho Brown
• Zion by TJ Jarrett
• Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
• Trace Particles by Allison Joseph
• Patter by Douglas Kearney • The Feel Trio by Fred Moten
• Mother, Less Child Jason McCall
• How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Book of Hours: Poems by Kevin Young
2015
• S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
• Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• 7 x 7: kwansabas by Tara Betts
• Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan
• Cornrows and Cornfields by celeste doaks
• Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis
• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
• Turning into Dwelling by Christopher Gilbert
• Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths• How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
• It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time Angela Jackson
• Roll Deep by Major Jackson
• A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems by Patricia Spears Jones
• Little Epiphanies by Allison Joseph
• Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
• Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
• Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
• My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson
• chop: a collection of kwansabas for fannie lou hamer by Treasure Shields Redmond
• Farther Traveler by Ronald V. Wilson
• Reconnaissance: Poems by Carl Phillips
• The Animal Too Big to Kill by Shane McCrae
2016
• The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib• The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett
• Break the Habit by Tara Betts
• Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove
• Play Dead by francine j. harris
• The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
• Inheritance by Hoke Glover
• House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
• Olio by Tyehimba Jess
• Mercurial by Allison Joseph
• Mortal Rewards by Allison Joseph
• Multitudes by Allison Joseph
• Double Identity by Allison Joseph
• The Purpose of Hands by Allison Joseph
• Bestiary by Donika Kelly
• The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May
• Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
• Counting Descent by Clint Smith
• Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams
• Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young
2017
• Telepathologies by Cortney Lamar Charleston
• Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
• Surviving Artistry by Allison Joseph• What Once You Loved by Allison Joseph
• Taking Back Sad by Allison Joseph
• Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka
• Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews
• Two-Face God by Jason McCall
• In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
• My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet
• Starshine & Clay by Kamilah Aisha Moon
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
• Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
• Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
• Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
• Fractal Song by Jerry W. Ward Jr.
• Spirit Boxing by Afaa Michael Weaver
2018
• I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
• Anagnorisis: Poems by Kyle Dargan
• Dying in the Scarecrow’s Arms by Mitchell L.H. Douglas
• Refugeed by Reginald Flood
• Don’t Let Them See Me Like This by Jasmine Gibson
• M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Divida by Monica A. Hand
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
• Confessions of a Barefaced Woman by Allison Joseph
• Corporal Muse by Allison Joseph
• Circus by Dante Micheaux
• Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips
• Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
• Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
• Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey
• Brown by Kevin Young
2019
• A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown • Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
• I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
• 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
• & More Black by T’ai Freedom Ford
• A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris Hill
• Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman Edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell
• The Gilded Auction Block by Shane McCrae
• All That Beauty by Fred Moten
• I Shimmer Sometimes, Too by Porsha Olayiwola
• Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
• Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
• Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq
Related:
• A checklist of book lists
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