I had to physically tell myself no! after this started turning epically long. A few women of color poets to consider and some of their poems and books that I’ve enjoyed or wish I had right now.
Women of color poets that will be published in 2019
- Morgan Parker
—
Magical Negro (Tin House Books) is forthchoming and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House Books) is a favorite
- Franny Choi
— Soft Science is forthcoming but she also published Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press) in 2017
- Sally Wen Mao
—
Oculus and I’ve been eager to read her earlier Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books)
- Omotara James
—
Mama Wata (Siren Songs / Civil Coping Mechanisms) is forthcoming and 2018′s Daughter Tongue (New-Generation African Poets) (Akashic Books) was one of the main reasons I bought the chapbook box set
- Eve L. Ewing —
1919 (Haymarket Books) is forthcoming and Electric Arches (Haymarket Books) is a favorite.- Camonghne Felix
— Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books) and I loved her set of poems in Winter Tangerine’s Lineage of Mirrors.
Hala Alyan
—
The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books)
can you recommend poets that are women of color to support pls!
Published
medusa-avenging-squad 