10 bestAfrican Poetryof January 2026
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Greatest American Poets
Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Anne Bradstreet

9.9
2

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology (The Library of America, 233)
Library of America

9.8
3

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Penguin Classics) Moore, Gerald
Penguin

9.7
4

Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems (African Poetry Book)
University of Nebraska Press

9.6
5

I'll Fly Away
Button Poetry

9.3
6

The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 (African Poetry Book)
University of Nebraska Press

9.1
7

The January Children (African Poetry Book)
University of Nebraska Press

8.9
8

After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (African Poetry Book)
University of Nebraska Press

8.6
9

The Book of American Negro Poetry,
Mariner

8.4
10

Your Crib, My Qibla (African Poetry Book)
University of Nebraska Press

8.1
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