Best Poetry BCALA Literary Award Winners
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song edited by Kevin Young (The Library of America), 2020
- We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems by jessica Care moore (Amistad), 2020
- 1919 by Eve L. Ewing (Haymarket Books), 2019
- I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2019
- Love Songs on a Mixtape by Emeka Barclay (EBook), 2019
- The Reflection Within the Mirror by Janiece L. Malone (EBook), 2019
- Door of No Return: Elmina-West Coast Ghana by Neal Hall (Neal Hall), 2018
- Indecency: Poetry by Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House Press), 2018
- If God Invented Baseball: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller (City Point Press), 2018
- The New Lynching by Adisa Ajamu II (EBook), 2018
- Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith (Northwestern University Press), 2017
- Counting Descent: Poems by Clint Smith (Write Bloody Publishing), 2016
- Attraversiamo (let’s cross over) by Monique Ferrell (NYQ Books), 2016
- On Life by Jacqueline Nicole Harris (Create Space Publishing), 2016
- Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2015
- Streetlights, J’s and Hip Hop: Making of a Poet by King Shakur (Create Space Publishing), 2015
- Book of Hours: Poems by Kevin Young (Knopf), 2014
- Chasing Utopia: a Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow), 2013
- Turn Me Loose: the Unghosting of Medgar Evers by Frank X. Walker (University of Georgia Press), 2013
- Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place by bell hooks (University Press of Kentucky), 2012
- If One of Us should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton (University of Pittsburgh), 2012
- Mule & Pear by Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Western Michigan University Press), 2011
- The Armageddon of Funk by Michael Warr (Tia Chucha Press), 2011
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In celebration to foster connection, cultivation, & collaboration we are sharing the link to our virtual summit that was held on May 15-16, 2020.