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Celebrate Black History Month : Poetic Voices
In celebration of Black History Month 2021, JHU Press is spotlighting Black poetic voices. Many of the 99 scholarly journals published by JHU Press regularly feature original works of poetry. Below is a just small collection of the diverse voices that bring their creative gifts and and lyrical compositions to our journals throughout the year.
The Third Renunciation
Matthew E. Henry
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Spring 2020
baba's voice mail.
Tsitsi Jaji
New Literary History, Autumn 2019
jury duty, and: (my) emily dickinson
Evie Shockley
Sewanee Review, Winter 2020
American, and: Until I Get Back, and: American Birthdeath Sequence, and: Blood-Slow Riot, and: John 1:1
Aaron Coleman
Callaloo, Summer 2017
for jim who pulls my lapel and calls me bro, and: 51 Fletcher and Them
Durell Thompson
African American Review, Fall 2020
A Waste of Yellow
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Callaloo, Fall 2009
Donika Kelly
Sewanee Review, Summer 2020
The Bronx Housing Court, and: For My Uncle Bobby, and: Days of 1996
Michael Brown Jr.
The Hopkins Review, Fall 2020
To Make Various Sorts of Black
Lorna Goodison
New Literary History, Autumn 2019
The Keening
Vievee Francis
African American Review, Spring 2017
Free and Brave
Caroline Knight
The Hopkins Review, Fall 2020
Salt Water Undoing
D. S. Harr
African American Review, Fall 2020 
Nikky Finney
Sewanee Review, Winter 2021
Trio A, and: Fear and Loathing (Comin' and Goin'), and: Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott's George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware, and: Private Party, and: Broke Bois
Anaïs Duplan
Callaloo, Summer 2017
Points of Clarification
Major Jackson
Sewanee Review, Fall 2020
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