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- Langston Hughes - ‘The Dream Keeper’, ‘Harlem’, ‘I, Too’, ‘Let America Be America Again’, ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, ‘Dream Variations’, ‘Bring me all your dreams’
- Ben Okri - ‘Grenfell Tower’, ‘Theme for English B’
- Nikki Giovanni - ‘Allowables’, ‘Rosa Parks’, ‘Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)’, ‘Ego Trippin (there must be a reason why)’
- Ross Gay - ‘A Small Needful Fact’, ‘Sorrow is not my Name’, ‘Wedding Poem’, ‘To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian’, ‘The Opening’
- Donika Kelly - ‘A Dead Thing That, in Dying, Feeds the Living’
- Jericho Brown - ‘As a Human Being’, ‘Bullet Points’, ‘Heart Condition’
- Audre Lord - ‘Now’, ‘Power’, ‘A Litany for Survival’, ‘Never to Dream of Spiders’
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Amiri Baraka - ‘In the Funk World’, ‘Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note’, ‘The single shadow’
- Roger Robinson - ‘Beware’
- Danez Smith - ‘Dinosaurs in the Hood’, ‘It Won’t Be a Bullet’, ‘alternate names for black boys’, ‘summer, somewhere’, ‘Homie’, ‘scene: portrait of a black boy with flowers’, ‘little prayer’, ‘Not an Elegy for Mike Brown’
- Gwendolyn Brooks - ‘To The Young Who Want to Die’, ‘Paul Robeson’, ‘We Real Cool’, ‘The Bean Eaters’, ‘my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell’, ‘Riot’, ‘A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon’, ‘the mother’
- Saul Williams - ‘Said the Shotgun to the Head’
- Lucille Clifton - ‘it was a dream’, ‘won’t you celebrate with me’, 'I am accused of tending to the past’, ‘If I Stand in My Window’, ‘photograph’, ‘my dream about being white’
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Maud Sulter - ‘As a Black Woman’
- Irene P Mathieu - ‘Soil’
- Yusef Komunyakaa - ‘Ode to the Maggot’
- Lawrence Dunbar - ‘We Wear the Mask’
- Aracelis Girmay - ‘You Are Who I Love’, ‘Elegy’
- Dudley Randall - ‘Black Poet, White Critic’
- Terrance Hayes - ‘American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin’, ‘American sonnet for the new year’, ‘The Golden Shovel’, ‘arbor for butch'
- Camille Dungy - ‘Trophic Cascade’
- Rita Dove - ‘Canary’, ‘Teach Us to Number Our Days’
- Robert Hayden - ‘Middle Passage’, ‘Those Winter Sundays’, ‘[American Journal]’, ‘Ice Storm’
- Dawn Lundy Martin - ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’
- Kiki Petrosino - ‘Secret Ninja’
- June Jordan - ‘Poem About my Rights’, ‘Poem about Police Violence’
- Michael Akuchie - ‘Boy Crisis', 'Boy Echo’
- Crystal Good - ‘Boom Boom’
- Hanif Abdurraqib - ‘For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut’, ‘How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This’
- Danusha Lameris - ‘Small Kindnesses’
- June Jordan - ‘July 4, 1974’
- Assata - ‘Love’
- Tracy K Smith - ‘My God, It’s Full of Stars’, ‘US & CO’
- Morgan Parker - ‘If You Are Over Staying Woke’
- Aime Cesaire - ‘Notebook of a return to the native land’
- Kenning JP Garcia - ‘This Sentimental Education’
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Simone White - ‘Dog Poem’, ‘Doll Face’,
- Jamaal May - ‘There Are Birds Here’
- Ishmael Reed - ‘I Am A Cowboy In The Boat Of Ra’
- Inua Ellams - ‘Fuck / Shakespeare’
- Airea D Matthews - ‘etymology’
- Clint Smith - ‘Meteor Shower’
- Richelle Kota - ‘My Body is a Protest’
- Lorna Goodison - ‘To Make Various Sorts of Black’
- Candace Williams - ‘Black Sonnet’
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Haki Madhubuti - ‘In the Interest of Black Salvation’
- Claude McKay - ‘If we must die’, ‘After the Winter’, ‘On Broadway’
- Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib - ‘Maybe None of Us Are Actually From Anywhere’
- Jay Wright - ‘Light’s Interrupted Amplitude’
- Sonia Sanchez - ‘Right on: white america’
- Grace Nichols - ‘Beauty’, ‘Praise Song for my Mother’
- Valerie Mason-John - ‘I Am Still You Negro’
- Walter Dean Myers - ‘Love That Boy’
- Dionne Brand - ‘Hard Against the Soul’
