The following collection of recent releases by Black poets, ranging from debut authors to award winners, represent the form at its highest level.
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Saeed Jones continues to mine the themes he has explored in his previous poetry collection (Prelude to a Bruise) and his acclaimed 2019 memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, including the ongoing grief of losing his mother and living as a gay Black man in America.
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This immersive debut collection from Nicholas Goodly explores the innermost workings of many identities: Black, queer, the flamboyant, the lonely, artists and the angry, just to name a few.
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Rio Cortez’s work comes from “Afropioneers”–a Black family that migrated from Louisiana to the mythical (and white) West. In this collection, Cortez writes forcefully of the current moment, along with the history forged by her ancestors, as she examines Black womanhood and begins to imagine a liberated future.
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Divided into four seasonal sections, Tawanda Mulalu’s debut collection plays with form, interjecting prose sections within sonnets and elegies, as he wrestles with his experiences as a Black African living in an America dominated by whiteness.
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Joshua Bennett’s collection, which he wrote as he became a new father for the first time, writing about the entire spectrum of the human experience, from birth to the possibilities of youth to the vulnerability of aging.
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A playful collection that deals with some of life’s thorniest issues, including mental health, grief and, ultimately, joy.
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