African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans -- Poetry
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African Americans
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Incoming Resources
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- Locomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson
- Freedom like sunlight, praisesongs for Black Americans, by J. Patrick Lewis
- Thomas and Beulah, poems, by Rita Dove
- This waiting for love, Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance, edited with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath
- Head off & split, poems, Nikky Finney
- I am the rage, Dr. Martina McGowan ; illustrated by Diana Ejaita
- Freedom's a-calling me, poems by Ntozake Shange ; paintings by Rod Brown
- Negro league baseball, Harmony Holiday
- We troubled the waters, poems, by Ntozake Shange ; paintings by Rod Brown
- Brown, poems, Kevin Young ; photographs by Melanie Dunea
- Jelly roll, a blues, Kevin Young
- When Daddy prays, written by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Tim Ladwig
- Brown honey in broomwheat tea, poems, by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- One last word, wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes ; Illustrated by Cozbi Cabrera [and 12 others]
- Ain't burned all the bright, by reynolds & griffin
- The 100 best African American poems, (*but I cheated), edited by Nikki Giovanni
- The blacker the berry, poems, by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Black magic, Dinah Johnson ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by Xia Gordon
- Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
- American smooth, poems, Rita Dove
- My people, Langston Hughes ; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr
- The Great Migration, journey to the North, by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- In daddy's arms I am tall, African Americans celebrating fathers, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
- The collected poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, editor, David Roessel, associate editor
- Harlem, by Walter Dean Myers
- Love to Langston, by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- And still I rise, Maya Angelou
- Such color, new and selected poems, Tracy K. Smith
- Inheritance, a visual poem, Elizabeth Acevedo ; art by Andrea Pippins
- Carver, a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson
- Here in Harlem, poems in many voices, written by Walter Dean Myers
- Words with wings, a treasury of African-American poetry and art, selected by Belinda Rochelle
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