African American

Image of This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Author(s):
Kwame Alexander
Genre(s):
Poetry, Anthologies, African American, Contemporary

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

July 20, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Anjanette Delgado

“It is a long story set to music, a rich and jeweled history sung to the rhythm of the decades, each poet making a case for joy . . .”

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Image of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
Author(s):
Gary Jackson, Len Lawson, Cynthia Manick
Genre(s):
Poetry, African American, Arts & Culture, Superheroes

The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry

November 22, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Anjanette Delgado

What do you do when the world refuses to look at you, to really see you? When, still, your life is expendable if the smallest excuse for taking it can be conjured?

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Author(s):
June Jordan
Genre(s):
Poetry, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Long Poem, African American

Passion: Poems

October 2, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Anjanette Delgado

“beauty, rhythm, insight, resonance.”

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Image of The Essential June Jordan
Author(s):
June Jordan
Editor(s):
Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller
Other Contributors:
Jericho Brown
Genre(s):
Poetry, African American, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Single Author

The Essential June Jordan

May 3, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Anjanette Delgado

Let’s not call this a review, deal? Who reviews June Jordan? She was the queen of everything.

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Image of Waterbaby
Author(s):
Nikki Wallschlaeger
Genre(s):
Poetry, African American, Single Author

Waterbaby

April 5, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Bruce Arlen Wasserman

“The poems in Waterbaby are present. They tell the truth and will inspire readers to lust for more.”

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Image of Reconnaissance: Poems
Genre(s):
Poetry, African American

Reconnaissance: Poems

August 31, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Laverne Frith

“Each of these moving poems is a metaphor of mutuality and mutability, of vulnerability and union.”

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Image of Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Author(s):
Kevin Young
Genre(s):
Poetry, African American, Single Author

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

January 22, 2011
Reviewed by: 
David Cooper

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels is Kevin Young’s powerful verse account of the 1839 mutiny of Mendi-speaking kidnap victims from Sierra Leone.

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