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Poetry Anthologies for Black History Month

From traditional to contemporary poetry, delve into these abundant selections of poetry anthologies contributed by hundreds of Black and African American poets.

Oakland Public Library

19 items

  • Mouths of Rain

    An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

    Book, 2021New York : The New Press, 2021. — 810.80896 MOUTHS
  • Patrice Lumumba

    An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation

    Book, 2020Oakland, CA : Nomadic Press, [2020] — 811.6 PATRICE
  • Black Girl Magic

    BreakBeat Poets; Volume 2

    Book, 2018Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018. — 811.008 BLACK
  • Catch the Fire!!!

    a Cross-generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry

    Book, 1998New York : Riverhead Books, 1998. — 811.5408 CATCH
  • Black Nature

    Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

    Book, 2009Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009. — 808.81936 BLACK
  • Furious Flower

    Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

    Book, 2020Evanston, Illinois : Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2020. — 811.508 FURIOUS
  • Book, 2007Lincoln, Neb., [etc.] : iUniverse, 2007. — 811.008 OAKLAND'S
  • Black Joy

    An Anthology of Black Boy Poems

    Book, 2019Oakland, California : Nomadic Press, 2019. — 811.6 BLACK
  • Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep

    An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945

    Book, 1994Boston : Back Bay Books, c1994. — 811.5408 EVERY
  • QUIP

    An Anthology of Young Queer Writing

    Book, 2018Oakland, California : Nomadic Press, [2018] — 811.608 QUIP
  • The Second Set

    the Jazz Poetry Anthology, Volume 2

    Book, 1996Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996. — 811.508 SECOND
  • Of Poetry & Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    Book, 2016New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 811.00808 OF
  • Caroling Dusk

    An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

    Book, 1993Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1993. — 811.5208 CAROLINA
  • Book, 2019Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019. — 811.608 HALAL
  • Ebony Angels

    a Collection of African-American Poetry and Prose

    Book, 1996New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, c1996. — 810.80896 EBONY
  • Double-take

    a Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology

    Book, 2001New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2001] — 810.80896 DOUBLE
  • African American Poetry

    250 Years of Struggle & Song

    Book, 2020New York : The Library of America, [2020] — 811.00808 AFRICAN