collections—

• 100 love sonnets ★ pablo neruda
• black feeling, black talk ★ nikki giovanni
• crush ★ richard siken
• for colored girls ★ ntozake shange
• haruko/love poems ★ june jordan
• her blue body ★ warsan shire
• leaves of grass ★ walt whitman
• rapture ★ carol ann duffy
• shake loose my skin ★ sonia sanchez
• the apple trees at olema ★ robert hass

standalone—

• blizzard ★ yasmin belkhyr
• journal of a homecoming ★ aimé césaire
• memory ★ evelyn graham frost
• the negro speaks of rivers ★ langston hughes
• we real cool ★ gwendolyn brooks