Poetry by black writers, 2000 - 2019

Here's a roundup of poetry volumes and chapbooks published between 2000 - 2019. More bibliographies here.

This list is a work-in-progress, so by all means, get at me if you have suggestions for additional volumes by black poets to include.

2000
• Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
• Storms Beneath the Skin by Regie Gibson
• Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey
• Passing Over by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
• Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X. Walker
• Multitudes: Poems Selected & New by Afaa Michael Weaver
• The Ten Lights of God by Afaa Michael Weaver

2001
• Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander
• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
• Rise by A. Van Jordan
• Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Da Black Book of Linguistic Liberation by C. Liegh McInnis
• Carver by Marilyn Nelson
• The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000 by Al Young
• To Repel Ghosts: Five Shades in B Minor by Kevin Young

2002
• Jazz Fan Looks Back by Jayne Cortez
• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
• Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems by Michael S. Harper
• 10 Tongues: Poems by Reginald Harris
• Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
• Leaving Saturn by Major Jackson
• Imitation of Life by Allison Joseph
• Octavia: Guthrie and Beyond by Naomi Long Madgett
• Blues Baby by Harryette Mullen
• Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
• Rock Harbor by Carl Phillips
• Bellocq's Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey
• Transcircularities by Quincy Troupe
• Black Swan by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

2003
• Dread by Ai
• Tougaloo Blues by Kelly Norman Ellis
• The World is Round by Nikky Finney
• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
• One Girl Babylon by Ruth Ellen Kocher
• The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka
• Committed to Breathing by Tony Medina
• The Alphabet Verses by jessica Care moore
• Singing the Bones Together by Angela Shannon
• The Body's Question  by Tracy K. Smith
• jelly roll by Kevin Young

2004
• Un poco Low Coup by Amiri Baraka
• Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems by Amiri Baraka
• Mercy by Lucille Clifton
• American Smooth by Rita Dove
• The Maverick Room by Thomas Sayers Ellis
• Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
• Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes
• M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A by A. Van Jordan
• Worldly Pleasures by Allison Joseph
• Pleasure Dome: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
• They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems by Quraysh A. Lansana
• The Subsequent Blues by Gary Copeland Lilley
• The Reprehensibles by Gary Copeland Lilley
• Connected Islands: New and Selected Poems by Naomi Long Madgett
• Run Toward Fear by Haki R. Madhubuti
• How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love by E. Ethelbert Miller
• Lot’s Daughters by Opal Moore
• Slave Moth by Thylias Moss
• Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
• Armor and Flesh by Mendi Lewis Obadike
• The Rest of Love: Poems by Carl Phillips
• Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles
• Buffalo Dance by Frank X. Walker

2005
• American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander
• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks edited by Elizabeth Alexander
• In the Sanctuary of a South by Ramona Hyman
• Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
• Black Poem by Gary Copeland Lilley
• A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
• The Cachoeira Tales And Other Poems by Marilyn Nelson
• Red Beans and Ricely Yours by Mona Lisa Saloy
• Black Maria by Kevin Young
• To Repel Ghosts: The Remix by Kevin Young

2006
• American Blue by Elizabeth Alexander
• What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy
• Blue-Tail Fly by Vievee Francis
• Against Which by Ross Gay
• Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes
• Hoops: Poems by Major Jackson
• Red Summer by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
• Femme du Monde by Patricia Spears Jones
• Fear, Some by Douglas Kearney
• Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse and Drudge by Harryette Mullen
• Riding Westward: Poems by Carl Phillips
• a half-red sea  by Evie Shockley
• Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith
• The Architecture of Language by Quincy Troupe
• The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams
• Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons by Al Young

2007
• Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson
• Stellar Places by Jeffery Renard Allen
• Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni
• Painkiller: Poems by Patricia Spears Jones
• Quantum Lyrics by A. Van Jordan
• Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 by Carl Phillips
• New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 by Ishmael Reed
• Duende by Tracy K. Smith
• Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
• The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985-2005 by Afaa Michael Weaver
• Something About the Blues by Al Young
• For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young

2008
• Poems in Conversation and a Conversation by Elizabeth Alexander and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
• Please  by Jericho Brown
• Honoring the Ancestors by James E. Cherry
• Voices by Lucille Clifton
• A Temple Looming by Lenard D. Moore
• No Sleep Till Brooklyn by Kevin Powell
• Hardheaded Weather by Cornelius Eady
• Exquisite Heats by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
• Alpha Zulu by Gary Copeland Lilley
• Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles
• Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
• When Winter Come by Frank X. Walker
• Morning Come Quick: Poems from War and Love by Marcus Uganda White
• Dear Darkness by Kevin Young

2009
• Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
• Arc & Hue by Tara Betts
• On the Imperial Highway by Jayne Cortez
• How God End Us by DeLana R. A. Dameron
• Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem  by Mitchell L. H. Douglas
• Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove
• Bicycles by Nikki Giovanni
• Quantum Lyrics: Poems by A. Van Jordan
• Voice: Poems by Allison Joseph
• The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
• Liberation Narratives by Haki R. Madhubuti
• Mixology by Adrian Matejka
• Speak Low: Poems by Carl Phillips
• Spherical Woman by Kysha Brown Robinson
• Open Interval by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
• Troubled Tongues by Crystal Williams

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
• Far district: poems by Ishion Hutchinson
• 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
• The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte
• 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
• Red Clay Weather by Reginald Shepherd
• 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
• Horse in the Dark: Poems by Vievee Francis
• 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
• Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems by Randall Horton
• Cineaste by A. Van Jordan
• Domina Un/blued by Ruth Ellen Kocher
• High Water Everywhere by Gary Copeland Lilley
• The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
• Dear Hero by Jason McCall
• She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon
• Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen
• History and Other Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey
• Silverchest: Poems by Carl Phillips
• Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers by Frank X. Walker
• The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver
• Sacrilegion by Lamar Wilson

2014
• The New Testament by Jericho Brown
• Zion by TJ Jarrett
• Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
• Trace Particles by Allison Joseph
• Patient: Poems by Bettina Judd
• Patter by Douglas Kearney
• The Feel Trio by Fred Moten
• Mother, Less Child by Jason McCall
• How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Arkansippi Memwars: Poetry, Prose & Chants 1962-2012 by Eugene B. Redmond
• City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver
• A Hard Summation by Afaa Michael Weaver,
• Detroit as Barn by Crystal Williams
• 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
• Redbone by Mahogany L. Browne
• 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
• Mess And Mess And by Douglas Kearney
• 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 Ronaldo 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
• Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney
• 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
• A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter by Nikki Giovanni
• Surviving Artistry by Allison Joseph
• What Once You Loved by Allison Joseph
• Taking Back Sad by Allison Joseph
• The Bushman's Medicine Show: Poems by Gary Copeland Lilley
• Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka
• Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews
• 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
• Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems by Dominique Christina
• I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
• 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
• The Hog Killing: Poems by Gary Copeland Lilley
• Mend: poems by Kwoya Fagin Maples
• Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips
• Refuse: poems by Julian Randall
• 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

• Exiles of Eden by Ladan Osman
• Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
• Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
• Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq
• The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas edited by Aldon Nielsen and Laura Vrana

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