In February, Poetry magazine will publish several poems by William J. Harris. Thinking about his first appearance prompted me to consider the first year appearance in the magazine of 99 other Black poets.
Below, I arranged the list (not exhaustive by the way) based on the year of poets' first appearance in Poetry.
1924: Countee Cullen
1926: Langston Hughes
1937: Margaret Walker
1938: Sterling A. Brown
1943: Robert Hayden
1944: Gwendolyn Brooks
1950: Melvin B. Tolson
1952: Margaret Danner
1962: Amiri Baraka
1968: Michael S. Harper
1969: Calvin Forbes
1980: Ai
1981 Rita Dove
1992: Elizabeth Alexander
1992: Reginald Shepherd
1993: Kevin Young
1997: Yusef Komunyakaa
1998: Derek Walcott
2005: Marilyn Nelson
2006: Thylias Moss
2006: Thomas Sayers Ellis
2006: Major Jackson
2007: Lucille Clifton
2007: Patricia Smith
2007: Afaa Michael Weaver
2008: Terrance Hayes
2008: Roger Reeves
2008: Fred D'Aguiar
2011: Camille T. Dungy
2011: Reginald Dwayne Betts
2011: Marcus Wicker
2012: Rickey Laurentiis
2013: Douglas Kearney
2013: Phillip B. Williams
2013: Nate Marshall
2014: Claudia Rankine
2014: Vievee Francis
2014: francine j. harris
2014: Harmony Holiday
2014: Danez Smith
2014: Nathaniel Mackey
2014: Tim Seibles
2014: Rowan Ricardo Phillips
2014: Jamaal May
2014: Ishion Hutchinson
2015: Krista Franklin
2015; Tara Betts
2015: Mahogany L. Browne
2015: Safiya Sinclair
2015: Eve L. Ewing
2015: Morgan Parker
2015: Angel Nafis
2015: Jamila Woods
2015: Ed Roberson
2015: Carl Phillips
2015: Joel Dias-Porter
2015: Shane McCrae
2016: Toi Derricotte
2016: Evie Shockley
2016: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2016: Dawn Lundy Martin
2016: giovanni singleton
2016: Dominique Christina
2016: Aracelis Girmay
2016: Alison C. Rollins
2016: Kwame Dawes
2016: Tyehimba Jess
2016: John Murillo
2016: Kyle Dargan
2016: Joshua Bennett
2017: Tracy K. Smith
2017: CM Burroughs
2017: Al Young
2017: Haki Madhubuti
2017: Cornelius Eady
2017: Quarysh Ali Lansana
2017: Gregory Pardlo
2018: Sonia Sanchez
2018: Khadijah Queen
2018: Donika Kelly
2018: Tiana Clark
2018: Elizabeth Acevedo
2018: Safia Elhillo
2018: Jericho Brown
2018: Clint Smith
2019: Justin Phillip Reed
2020: Angela Jackson
2020: Nicole Sealey
2021: Nikki Grimes
2021: Kate Rushin
2021: L. Lamar Wilson
2022: Carolyn Rodgers
2022: Ruth Ellen Kocher
2022: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
2022: Simone White
2022: Will Alexander
2022: A. Van Jordan
2023: William J. Harris
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