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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

From Fenton Johnson to William J. Harris: 100 Black Poets in Poetry



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
 
1918: Fenton Johnson
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 
2012: Adrian Matejka 
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: HonorĂ©e 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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