Volumes by black poets, 1980 - 1989

What follows is an incomplete list of volumes by black poets published between 1980 - 1989. 

1980: The Yellow House on the Corner by Rita Dove

1980: Passion by June Jordan 

1980: Two-Headed Woman by Lucille Clifton

1982: New Music - New Poetry (album) by Amiri Baraka with David Murray And Steve McCall

1982: The Mud Actor by Cyrus Cassells

1982: The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems by Al Young

1982: Poems of Love and Understanding by Lenard D. Moore

1982: There It Is (album) by Jayne Cortez

1982: Chosen Poems: Old and New by Audre Lorde

1982: Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain: Poems 1975-1980 by E. Ethelbert Miller

1982: The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go by Sterling Plumpp

1982: Firespitter by Jayne Cortez

1983: Museum by Rita Dove

1983: Those Who Ride The Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni 

1983: Imagoes by Wanda Coleman

1984: Across the Mutual Landscape by Christopher Gilbert

1984: Homegirls & Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez

1984: Copacetic by Yusef Komunyakaa

1984: Skulls Along the River by Quincy Troupe

1984: Coagulations: New and Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez

1985: On Wings Made of Gauze by Nikky Finney

1985: Mama's Promises by Marilyn Nelson

1985: The Open Eye by Lenard D. Moore

1985: Eroding Witness by Nathaniel Mackey

1985: Healing Song for the Inner Ear by Michael S. Harper

1985: Living Room: New Poem by June Jordan

1986: I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head by Yusef Komunyakaa

1986: Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove 

1986: Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde

1986: Toys in a Field by Yusef Komunyakaa

1986: Maintain Control (album) by Jayne Cortez

1986: Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators? by E. Ethelbert Miller

1986: Sin by Ai

1986: Victims of the Latest Dance Craze by Cornelius Eady

1987: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969–1980 by Lucille Clifton

1987: Next: New Poems by Lucille Clifton

1987: Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors by Haki Madhubuti 

1987: Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories 1968-1986 by Wanda Coleman

1987: Under a Soprano Sky by Sonia Sanchez

1988: Ten Oxherding Pictures by Lucille Clifton

1988: Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa

1989: Grace Notes by Rita Dove

1989: Blues: The Story Always Untold by Sterling Plumpp

1989: Lyrical Campaigns: Selected Poems by June Jordan

1989: Captivity by Toi Derricotte

1989: Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems by June Jordan