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Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley - a Native African and a Slave by 
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America’s First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by
The slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom when, in 1773, she became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English language. Yet even though Benjamin Franklin received her and George Washington thanked her for her poems, Thomas Jefferson refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., brilliantly conveys the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson have played in shaping the black literary tradition.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and About Women of Color
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by 
The 100 Best African American Poems (*but I cheated) by
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. A startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African American verse. Lift up Black voices with these magnetic poems, an exciting mix of most-loved classics and daring new writing. From Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, Natasha Trethewey, and many others, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Black Girl Magic: The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2 by
Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys' club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop by
The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters. The BreakBeat Poets is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.
