Jaime Adoff

Small Fry

 John Agard

Half-Caste and Other Poems 

Einstein, the Girl Who Hated Math 

Elizabeth Alexander

Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color 

Kwame Alexander/James Patterson

Becoming Muhammad Ali

Gwendolyn Brooks

Aloneness 

Very Young Poets 

Winnie

Children Coming Home 

Mahogany L. Browne/ Elizabeth Acevedo

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice

Terri Bush

The Voice of the Children (Poetry by Children) 

Alexis De Veaux

Don’t Explain: A Story of Billie Holiday 

Shirley Graham Du Bois

The Story of Phillis Wheatley: Poetess of the Revolution

Alice Faye Duncan

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 

Nikki Giovanni

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People 

Nikki Grimes

Tai Chi Morning 

At Jerusalem’s Gate 

From a Child’s Heart

Portrait of Mary 

A Dime a Dozen

Out of the Dark: Nikki Grimes

James Haskins

The Life of Langston Hughes Always Movin’ On 

Wade & Cheryl Willis Hudson

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Katura Hudson

Langston’s Legacy: 101 Ways to Celebrate the Life and Work of Langston Hughes 

Wade Hudson

The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters)     

Phillis Wheatley: Poet 

Angela Johnson

The Other Side, Shorter Poems

June Jordan

The Voice of the Children (Poetry by Children) 

Lindamichellebaron

For the Love of Life 

The Sun is On 

Rhythm and Dues 

Eric-Shabazz Larkin

A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food 

Julius Lester

Who I Am

Angela Shelf Medearis

Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections 

Tony Medina

The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems 

Walter Dean Myers

Harlem

Blues Journey 

Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices 

Marilyn Nelson

A Wreath for Emmett Till 

Carver: A Life in Poems

Eugene Useni Perkins

Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement

Charlemae Hill Rollins

Famous American Negro Poets

Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes 

Charles R. Smith

Twelve Rounds to Glory (12 Rounds to Glory): The Story of Muhammad Ali

Hope Anita Smith

It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope

Michael R. Strickland

African-American Poets 

Bettye Stroud

The World’s Wide Open 

Charles Waters

Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z 

Carole Boston Weatherford

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Becoming Billie Holiday 

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People 

Phillis Wheatley

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England

Jacqueline Woodson

brown girl dreaming 

Benjamin Zephaniah

Wicked World 

Schools’ Out

Funky Chicken

Talking Turkeys