Monday, December 14, 2020

The year in African American poetry, 2020



Here’s a partial list of publications and news items related to African American poets and poetry that caught my attention this past year. 

• February Tiana Clark wins Kate Tuffs Poetry award. 
• February: Reginal Dwayne Betts wins NAACP award for poetry. 
• March: Morgan Parker wins National Book Critics Circle Award.
• April Janice N. Harrington receives Guggenheim fellowship. 
• May: Jericho Brown wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 
• May: Ed Roberson wins Jackson Poetry Prize. 
• September: Nikky Finney receives Wallace Stevens Award. 
• September: Hanif Abdurraqib wins Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.  
 
Books 
• Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander 
• Owed by Joshua Bennett 
• Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong
• Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount
• How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton 
• “Wicked Enchantment” by Wanda Coleman 
• Cardinal by Tyree Daye 
• Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney 
• Too Much Midnight by Krista Franklin 
• Be Holding by Ross Gay
• Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni 
• One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven by Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover) 
• Seeing the Body by Rachel Eliza Griffiths 
• Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs 
• Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems by Erica Hunt 
• The Absurd Man by Major Jackson 
• The Age Of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 
• Inheritance by Taylor Johnson
• Finna by Nate Marshall 
• Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo 
• Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae 
• Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips 
• Just Us by Claudia Rankine 
• Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues by Ishmael Reed 
• The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed 
• Homie by Danez Smith 

 Anthology 
• African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song edited by Kevin Young

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