- Hard times require furious dancing:, new poems
- The poems, Langston Hughes ; edited with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
- Soulscript, a collection of African American poetry, edited by June Jordan ; [foreword by Staceyann Chin]
- The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad ; associate editor, Hilary Herbold
- Poetry for laughing out loud
- What I say, innovative poetry by black writers in America, edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey
- Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston
- Duende, poems, 1966-now, Quincy Troupe
- Fast animal, Tim Seibles
- Complete poems, James Weldon Johnson ; edited with an introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
- How we sleep on the nights we don't make love, poems, by E. Ethelbert Miller
- Works of James M. Whitfield:, America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
- Soul looks back in wonder, [illustrated by] Tom Feelings ; [poems by Maya Angelou ... and others]
- Through the fire
- Chasing Utopia, a hybrid, Nikki Giovanni
- Light for the world to see, a thousand words on race and hope, Kwame Alexander
- Light for the world to see, a thousand words on race and hope, Kwame Alexander
- Horses make a landscape look more beautiful, poems
- African-American poetry:, an anthology, 1773-1927
- Let America be America again, Langston Hughes ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi
- The moments, the minutes, the hours, the poetry of Jill Scott, Jill Scott
- The life of a hunter, poems, by Michelle Robinson
- Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
- The Black bard of North Carolina, George Moses Horton and his poetry, edited by Joan R. Sherman
- Spring in New Hampshire and other poems
- Chameleon aura, Billy Chapata
- Collected poems, Countee Cullen ; edited by Major Jackson
- Great African American literary voices
- Absolute trust in the goodness of the earth, new poems, Alice Walker
- Of fire and rain:, new and selected poems by, Natasha Carrizosa nad Joaquin Zihuatanejo
- Ota Benga under my mother's roof, poems
- Teahouse of the almighty, poems, by Patricia Smith
- Phenomenal woman, four poems celebrating women, Maya Angelou
- On the pulse of morning, Maya Angelou
- African American Poetry, 250 years of struggle & song, Kevin Young, editor
- Writings, James Weldon Johnson
- Hardheaded weather, new and selected poems, Cornelius Eady
- Warhorses, poems, Yusef Komunyakaa
- Color
- The book of American Negro poetry
- The 100 best African American poems, (*but I cheated), edited by Nikki Giovanni
- In Montgomery, and other poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
- I, too, sing America, three centuries of African American poetry, [edited by] Catherine Clinton
- Paper girl and the knives that made her, Ari B. Cofer
- The Poetry of Black America, anthology of the 20th century, edited by Arnold Adoff ; introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks
- I, too, sing America, [three centuries of African-American poetry], [selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton
- The book of American Negro poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson
- Something about the blues, an unlikely collection of poetry, Al Young
- Lyrics of the hearthside
- Poems, Langston Hughes ; selected and edited by David Roessel