Black poets

(BLACKSTEW) — A reflection on the closing decade would not be complete without highlighting the important contributions of Black poets for the world of poetry and the culture overall. The featured…

Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, Ibi Zoboi, and Nikki Giovanni, this breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture. Come, claim your wings. Lift your life above the earth, return to the land of your father’s birth. What exactly is it to be Black in America? Well, for some, it’s learning how to morph the…

Here is a selection of poems by Lucille Clifton, a small sampling of the prolific output of a chronicler of the Black American experience.

Try this in Midjourney: /imagine Audre Lorde reading a poem on stage. The image is hyper-realistic. --v 6.0 #aiart #blackhistory #poetry #midjourney

Todd's Poem Dead Poets Society, 1989

Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical lyrics.

For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can't Talk About the Trees without…

Black excellence | Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, and playwrite.

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America

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"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features both modern poets, such as Nikki Giovanni and Ibi Zoboi, and 'the brilliant Black poets who are now ancestors'... A fresh canon for poetry studies."--ALA…

A sampling of iconic poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, with links to analyses following each one.

Read 3 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Work by South African freedom poets, including Dennis Brutus, David Evans, Barry Feinberg, A…

Here are our favourite modern novels by Black women writers from the UK, US, and Canada. Every single one is a masterpiece.

We’re kicking off Black History Month with one of our treasures. In 1931 poet Langston Hughes published this booklet ‘The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations.’ The poems addressed citizenshi…

June Jordan, poet, writer, Black writer, Black poet, Black feminist

One of the major American poets of the late 20th century, June Jordan mastered a variety...