Black Reading Challenge - 2024 - hosted by ajax_the_tough

A poetry book/book of poems by a Black person
In Category of General Blackness 
All books added
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry

Amanda Gorman

228 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry politics race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Besaydoo: Poems by Yalie Saweda Kamara

Besaydoo: Poems

Yalie Saweda Kamara

2 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction poetry
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas

Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology

Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas

160 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

337 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir middle grade poetry race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

32 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson

Black Girl You Are Atlas

Renée Watson

96 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo

Inheritance

Elizabeth Acevedo

5 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction poetry young adult hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

Tony Medina

40 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective fast-paced
(No) I am (not) okay by Dre Hill

(No) I am (not) okay

Dre Hill

40 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

nonfiction poetry
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Melania Luisa Marte

148 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced