a range of influential and evocative poetry collections from Black queer poets throughout time
created by aliyahmk
last updated February, 2026
Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill
Content Warning: Everything
Akwaeke Emezi
Black Queer Hoe
Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
June Jordan
Patient
Bettina Judd
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Robin Coste Lewis
Spells of a Voodoo Doll: Collected Works
Assotto Saint
Sacrilegion (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 16)
L. Lamar Wilson
The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sinister Wisdom 102)
Pat Parker
how to get over
T'ai Freedom Ford
Instructions for the Lovers
Dawn Lundy Martin
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Carl Phillips
Love Poems
Nikki Giovanni
Hull
Xandria Phillips
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Crossfire: A Litany For Survival
Staceyann Chin
BlackGirl Mansion
Angel Nafis
Mucus In My Pineal Gland
Juliana Huxtable
Violets and Other Tales
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed
Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men
The Black Unicorn
Audre Lorde
Bestiary: Poems
Donika Kelly
Collected Poems
Robert Hayden
Against Heaven: Poems
Kemi Alabi
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
James Baldwin
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
The New Testament
Jericho Brown
Sympathetic Little Monster
Cameron Awkward-Rich
looks amazing baby! i love some of these books
thank you miranda!
excellent amazing superb list, thank you for this đź’›
my pleasure! curating this reminded me of how many incredible artists i need to read more of <3
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