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The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2 by Mahogany L. Browne

I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark

The Splooge Factory by Christina Springer

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

2018 Poetry by African-Americans

30 books — 3 voters

Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine

DE LA CAPTIVITÉ À LA LIBERTÉ by Léonce JATCHE

2016 Poetry by African-Americans

28 books — 6 voters

Flower Fairies of the Autumn by Cicely Mary Barker

Flower Fairies of the Winter by Cicely Mary Barker

Flower Fairies of the Summer by Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker

82 books — 8 voters

How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson

2014 Poetry by African-Americans

25 books — 10 voters

How Many Miles to Babylon? by Violet Needham

More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme by Ada M. Marzials

Juvenile Fiction based upon a Nursery Rhyme, Poem or Folk Song

17 books — 3 voters

2020 Poetry by African-Americans

36 books — 6 voters

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“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead, Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my ta ...more ”
― W.H. Auden , Another Time

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