April is Poetry Month - Featured Adult Books

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances By Kwame Alexander Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316417228
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 23rd, 2023

Above Ground By Clint Smith Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316543033
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - March 28th, 2023

Beauty: A Collection of Poems to Empower African American Females to Redefine Personal Beauty Standards By Keishann Corley Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781953315021
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Published: Bmctalks Press - April 8th, 2023

Fine Like Wine, Gettin' Better with Time By Talaya "Tik-Tok" Heard Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781667890647
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Published: BookBaby - April 4th, 2023

No Sweet Without Brine: Poems By Cynthia Manick Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063244306
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Published: Amistad - April 4th, 2023

Black Girl Evolving II: Journey to Softness By Diana Townsend Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9798215735640
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Published: Diana Townsend - March 11th, 2023

Counting Descent By Clint Smith Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781938912658
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Published: Write Bloody Publishing - September 15th, 2016

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country By Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
$13.59
ISBN: 9780593465271
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Published: Viking Books - March 30th, 2021

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose By Nikki Giovanni Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062995285
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Published: William Morrow - October 20th, 2020

Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language New and Selected By Haki R. Madhubuti Cover Image
$15.96
ISBN: 9780883783580
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Published: Third World Press - September 29th, 2020

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope By Kwame Alexander Cover Image
$13.19
ISBN: 9780358539414
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Published: Mariner Books - November 17th, 2020

Mom & Me & Mom By Maya Angelou Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781400066117
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Published: Random House - April 2nd, 2013

The Rose That Grew From Concrete By Tupac Shakur Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780671028459
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Published: MTV Books - February 3rd, 2009

The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott By Jill Scott Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780312329624
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - April 1st, 2008

Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics By Alicia Keys Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780425205600
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Published: Berkley - November 1st, 2005

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Editor) Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780679764083
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Published: Vintage - October 31st, 1995

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology By Kevin Young (Editor) Cover Image
By Kevin Young (Editor)
$45.00
ISBN: 9781598536669
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Published: Library of America - October 20th, 2020

S O S: Poems 1961-2013 By Amiri Baraka Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780802124685
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Published: Grove Press - February 9th, 2016

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry By Camille T. Dungy (Editor), Elizabeth Alexander (Contribution by), Alvin Aubert (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Camille T. Dungy (Editor), Elizabeth Alexander (Contribution by), Alvin Aubert (Contribution by)
$34.95
ISBN: 9780820334318
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Published: University of Georgia Press - December 1st, 2009

The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery By Matt Sandler Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781788735445
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Published: Verso - September 8th, 2020

African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 By Joan R. Sherman (Editor) Cover Image
By Joan R. Sherman (Editor)
$4.00
ISBN: 9780486296043
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Published: Dover Publications - July 7th, 1997

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing By Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501154294
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Published: 37 Ink - December 4th, 2018

The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 By Nikki Giovanni Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780060724290
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Published: William Morrow - January 23rd, 2007

Gil Scott- Heron: A Father and Son Story By Leslie Gordon Goffe Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9789768202895
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Published: LMH Publishers - February 3rd, 2012

The Complete Poetry By Maya Angelou Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780812997873
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Published: Random House - March 31st, 2015

His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute By Maya Angelou Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780812997019
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Published: Random House - January 21st, 2014

The Ways of White Folks: Stories (Vintage Classics) By Langston Hughes Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679728177
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 1990

The Best of Simple: Stories By Langston Hughes Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374521332
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Published: Hill and Wang - September 28th, 1990

Blacks By Gwendolyn Brooks Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780883781050
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Published: Third World Press - January 1st, 1994

Steel Black By Aj Houston Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781733881043
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Published: Not Just Alphabets Publishing - January 30th, 2021

Drops of Shade: The Miseducation of the African American Dream By IV Howard, Frank W. (Illustrator), Stephonia Roberts Cover Image
$10.95
ISBN: 9798717317399
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Published: Independently Published - March 6th, 2021