Books like Lyrics of the Hearthside by Paul Laurence Dunbar

A collection of Maya Angelou's poetry celebrating life, strength, love, and remembrance.

Indecency is a collection of poems in which Justin Phillip Reed uses language to expose inequity, challenge white supremacy, and critique structures of discrimination, masculinity, sexuality, and the prison industrial complex.

A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.

The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.

A curated collection of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry, showcasing his late‑nineteenth‑century style, themes, and development within African American and American literary traditions.

‘The Weary Blues’ by Langston Hughes is a landmark collection of early 20th‑century African‑American poems that blends jazz rhythms, soulful lyricism, and personal reflection on race and identity.

"Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader is a key resource for understanding the scope, complexity, and novelty of this pioneering Black American writer. From "Poem about Police Violence": Tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop you think the accident rate would lower subsequently?. I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rabid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (again) People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun"--