30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.
- Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
- Feast by Ina Cariño
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
- Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo
- Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
- I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes
- Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
- Song of my Softening by Omotara James
- Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin
- Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna
- Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
- Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
- Finna by Nate Marshall
- Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin
- God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
- You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
- I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price
- Homie by Danez Smith
- Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik
- Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano
- That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri
- it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
- Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith
- Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith
- Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
- Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
- Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams
- Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
- From From by Monica Youn