An ever-evolving list of poetry collections by poets who made their name via the Slam community.
created by PopCultureLibrarian
last updated June, 2026
The Language Of Birds
Kimi Sugioka
What My Hand Say
Glenis Redmond
A Dozen Cold Ones by Two Rivers: Native American Poetry in an Urban Setting
E. Donald Two-Rivers
The Patron Saint of Making Curfew
Tim Stafford
Things I Blindly Took as Gospel
Beau Williams
O Body
Dan "Sully" Sullivan
Shells
Craig Arnold
Rise of the Trust Fall
Mindy Nettifee
Heavy Lead Birdsong
Ryler Dustin
Ceremony for the Choking Ghost
Karen Finneyfrock
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry
Gary Glazner
This is How We Disappear
Titilope Sonuga
You Must Be This Tall to Ride
Saraeve Fermin
How to Bless the New Moon: The Priestess Paths Cycle and Other Poems for Queens (The Jewish Poetry Project)
Rachel Kann
SparkleFat: Poems That Intend to Be Seen
Melissa May
A Tree (Falls In) The Hood: Billy Tuggle
Billy Tuggle
Friends Without Bodies
Brendan Mcleod
The Problem with Solitaire
Lucia Misch
Sorry, We're Close
Tarin Towers
This Bright Darkness
Sarah McKinstry-Brown
Visiting Hours
Shane L. Koyczan
The Constant Velocity of Trains
Lea Deschenes
City of Insomnia
Victor D. Infante
Diary of an Emotional Idiot
Maggie Estep
the magic my body becomes: Poems
Jess Rizkallah
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
Sarah Kay
sipèstisyon
Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction
Jared Singer
New Shoes On A Dead Horse
Sierra DeMulder
Dispatch: Poems
Cameron Awkward-Rich
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