Link to 2014 Black History Month poems is here.
Link to all the poems on this blog by black poets is this one!
There is SO much great, fun, exciting, beautiful poetry by black poets that reading them on screen can be overwhelming.
So… you can ORDER these books and have a look at them every now and again at home, maybe on the tube, subway, bus, waiting for the bus 🙂
1. The Fire People: Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets
NEW and USED: Abebooks.com The Fire People
2. The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry.
NEW and USED: Abebooks.com The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
NEW at independent bookstores: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780195125634
3. “Caroling Dusk: an Anthology of Verse by Black Poets.” Edited by Countee Cullen.
NEW and USED: Abebooks.com Caroling Dusk
NEW at independent bookstores NEAR you: Caroling Dusk
4. African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
NEW and USED: Abebooks.com African-American Poetry: an Anthology
NEW at independent bookstores NEAR you: African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
For CHILDREN:
5. My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (A Puffin Poetry Book)
NEW and USED: Abebooks.com My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry
NEW at independent bookstores NEAR you: My Black Me
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