New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2014). Award winning African American poet's fourth collection - a "montage of poems, wherein film serves as the setting for contemplative trances, memoir, and pure fantasy. At its center is a sonnet sequence that imagines the struggle of pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux against D. W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation, which Micheaux saw not only as racist but also as the start of a powerful new art form.. . an extended riff on Jordans life as a moviegoer and a brilliant exploration of film, poetry, race." Notes. 133 pp. ISBN: 978-0393348736.

New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. Hardcover - A collection of poetry by this African American writer best known as the author of 'for colored girls who have considered suicide.' 74 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-18342-9.

Venusian Publishing, (2014). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems rooted in music - jazz, blues and hip-hop - by a young Black woman. Foreword by Marjol Rush-Collet of the Langston Hughes Family Museum. INSCRIBED on the title page. 103 pp. ISBN: 978-1478247012.

New York: Penguin Poets, (1994). First edition - African American author's highly praised second collection of poetry (and last to date) Although he has found success as a novelist - with 'The Sellout' winning the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize - reading his poems makes you wish he had also continued to write them. Cover praise from Quincy Troupe, Jessica Hagedorn and Evelyn McDonnell writing in the Village Voice commented that "Beatty piles wordplay upon wordplay in a hyperstack of meaning making him one of the smartest young poets around." 108 pp. ISBN: 0-140587233.

New York: Penguin Poets, (1994). First edition - African American author's highly praised second collection of poetry (and last to date) Although he has found success as a novelist - with 'The Sellout' winning the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize - reading his poems makes you wish he had also continued to write them. Cover praise from Quincy Troupe, Jessica Hagedorn and Evelyn McDonnell writing in the Village Voice commented that "Beatty piles wordplay upon wordplay in a hyperstack of meaning making him one of the smartest young poets around." 108 pp. ISBN: 0-140587233.

New York: The Nuyorican Poets, (1991). The first book by this award-winning African American author, a book of poetry. In 1990, Beatty was the first Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which led to the publication of this book. He went on to win many awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his 2016 novel 'The Sellout.' 74 pp. Scarce in all printings, and especially so in this condition.

New York: Perigee / Berkley, (1996). First edition - A romantic anthology of more than one hundred love letters and poems including contributions from Alice Walker, Derek Walcott, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, Rita Dove, Ted Joans, Henry Dumas and many others. Originally published in hardcover in 1973, this edition is substantially revised. with a new foreword by Ruby Dee, introduction by the editor and more. . xxiii, 194 pp. ISBN: 0-399519823.

Detroit: Act Three Publishing, (2006). First edition - Poetry chapbook by this African American author - the cover says "Yelling Screaming Stumping Hollering - Potitical/Social Poetic Verse" and that sums it up well. 71 pp.

Act Three Publishing, (2009). First edition - Poetry chapbook by this African American author, many commenting on current issues from the stimulus program to drug abuse. 51 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. First edition - African American writer's second collection of poems - the first section - Letters from a New England Negro - consists of epistolary poems set in 1867-1868 during Emancipation and the second section centers around blues singer Bessie Smith. 112 pp. . ISBN: 0-688-011772.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's fourth book of poetry. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-151421692.

Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. First edition - The title poem is a long historical narrative poem set in Brazil in 1741, twenty years after the destruction of the second Palmares, one of the settlements founded in that country by escaped African slaves. 70 pp. Cover drawing by James Lewis. ISBN: 0-91641860X.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A highly praised and compelling collection of poetry and prose poems and more, one which uses the spaces on the page as part of the message. "Tempestt is a self-proclaimed 'daughter of California, ' and her collection begins by gazing inward, before moving seamlessly into questions of queerness and Blackness that drive a searing social and political critique." (Alta Magazine) SIGNED by the author. 130 pp. ISBN: 978-0872869257.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American poet's first regularly published collection. #129 out of 200 copies numbered and signed by Coleman. 133 pp plus colophon and final photograph of author. ISBN: 0-876854129.

New York: Viking, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poetry and full-color photography by Parks - a lovely book. Introduction by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-6703466675.

Lewisburg & London: Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth collection by this avant-garde Black poet. A book which brings together her first book - Tree Tall Woman - with previously uncollected poems from early in her career. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-838755151.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1993). Third collection of poems by this award winning writer (including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award). Cover praise from Sharon Olds, who commented that these poems "show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escapedand paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today. 69 pp. ISBN: 0-822954222.

Chicago: Third World Press, (1991). First edition - A long poem written in honor of Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela. Originally published in 1988 by her own imprint. 23 pp. Cover painting by Anna Tyler. ISBN: 0-88378050X.

Chicago: Third World Press, (1991). First edition - A simple set of "little lessons" for young people who are trying to write poetry, plus 8 poems written by Brooks for children. Originally published in 1983 by her own imprint, which was inspired by her years of teaching and experience working with independent Black publishers. 32 pp. Cover painting by Anna Tyler. ISBN: 0-883780461.

Chicago: Third World Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of fourteen poems by the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. A slim chapbook. 32 pp. Cover painting by Anna Tyler. ISBN: 0-88378-0550.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's fourth book of poetry. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1421692.

New York: Harlem River Press, (1990). First edition - Award-winning poet's first collection - focused on exploring "the political realities in the lives of women" and containing many short poems on city life, homelessness, birthing as well as a long poem "rituals of spring" written on the 75th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." This collection received the William Carlos Williams Award. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-863161367.

New York: Pantheon, (2001). Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon first book of poetry by this Black author whom The New Yorker described as "possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, and the gospel singer's depth of feeling." A small slim volume. 73 pp. ISBN: 0-375421416.

Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. First edition - The title poem is a long historical narrative poem set in Brazil in 1741, twenty years after the destruction of the second Palmares, one of the settlements founded in that country by escaped African slaves. 70 pp. Cover drawing by James Lewis. ISBN: 0-91641860X.

Detroit: Lotus Press, (1983.). First edition - A collection of several narrative poems by this African American novelist - one, "The Machete Woman," tells the story of an African slave who takes refuge in a convent in 1637 after hacking to death her mistress. ISBN: 0-916418-43x.

Chicago: DuSable Museum, (1984). First edition - A slim collection of twelve poems. Hummons was the sister of Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Chicago educator, activist, artist and one of the founders of the Du Sable Museum. 20 pp. Uncommon (only one copy located in Worldcat)