My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry

"My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry" is a profound collection featuring fifty poems from twenty-six African American poets. It delves into essential questions about Black identity, the African American experience, and what it means to belong. The poems offer a range of perspectives, celebrating heritage, resilience, and the everyday joys and challenges of life. This book is ideal for sparking conversations about culture, self-esteem, and empathy, providing valuable representation and a rich literary experience for young readers aged 4-11.

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be African-American? What is the black experience? The spirited voices of twenty-six African-American poets speak to these and other questions in fifty collected poems that explore the African-American world. The rich words of this treasury rang out for the first time over twenty years ago, and will continue to shout their message for years to come.