Black History Poems
taken from The Academy of American Poets Newsletter
A Black History Month Reading List
In honor of Black History Month, which begins next week, we asked a group of contemporary black poets to share poems they think are essential reading for the month and to write about why. Here are their picks; visit Poets.org to read more about them.
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
“Heartbeats” by Melvin Dixon
“American History” by Michael S. Harper
“Hurricane” by Yona Harvey
“Middle Passage” by Robert Hayden
“We Should Make a Documentary About Spades” by Terrance Hayes
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
“A Brief History of Hostility” by Jamaal May
“Coherence in Consequence” by Claudia Rankine
“For My People” by Margaret Walker
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley
“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
“Heartbeats” by Melvin Dixon
“American History” by Michael S. Harper
“Hurricane” by Yona Harvey
“Middle Passage” by Robert Hayden
“We Should Make a Documentary About Spades” by Terrance Hayes
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
“A Brief History of Hostility” by Jamaal May
“Coherence in Consequence” by Claudia Rankine
“For My People” by Margaret Walker
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley
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