What to Read After The Black poets
Readers who loved The Black poets by Dudley Randall keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Black poets is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Black poets
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Poems
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Spunk
No Language Is Neutral
Dead Emcee Scrolls
S [Square Root] He
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968–1998
Wrapped in Rainbows
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself
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Before the Mayflower
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