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Black Poetry Month

Poetry words from the greats!

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The Tradition

by Jericho Brown; read by Jericho Brown


Pulitzer Prize Winner

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Learn More
The New Testament

by Jericho Brown; read by Jericho Brown

In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Learn More
Homie

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist For The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry
Finalist For The 2021 Naacp Image Award For Poetry

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Learn More
Don't Call Us Dead

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith


Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—"Dear White America"—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. Learn More
A Fortune For Your Disaster

by Hanif Abdurraqib; read by Hanif Abdurraqib

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. Learn More
The Body's Question

by Tracy K. Smith; read by Tracy K. Smith

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Learn More
Wade in the Water

by Tracy K. Smith; read by Tracy K. Smith

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. Learn More
Duende

by Tracy K. Smith; read by Tracy K. Smith

AudioFile Earphones Awards Winner

Duende is the award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States. Learn More
Life On Mars

by Tracy K. Smith; read by Tracy K. Smith

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Learn More
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