Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good Woman | 1987 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 2 | Next | 1987 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 3 | The City in Which I Love You | 1990 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 4 | Quilting | 1991 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 5 | What We Carry | 1994 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 6 | Red Suitcase | 1994 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 7 | The Terrible Stories | 1996 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 8 | Fuel | 1998 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 9 | Tell Me | 2000 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 10 | Blessing the Boats | 2000 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 11 | Smoke | 2000 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 12 | Book of My Nights | 2001 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 13 | Mules of Love | 2002 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 14 | The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande | 2002 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 15 | Love Song with Motor Vehicles | 2003 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 16 | The Owner of the House | 2003 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 17 | The Orchard | 2004 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 18 | The Rooster’s Wife | 2005 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 19 | Postcards from the Interior | 2005 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 20 | You & Yours | 2005 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 21 | Darling Vulgarity | 2006 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 22 | Not for Specialists | 2006 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 23 | Slope of the Child Everlasting | 2007 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 24 | Sleeping With Houdini | 2007 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 25 | The Fortieth Day | 2008 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 26 | Elephants & Butterflies | 2008 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 27 | Voices | 2008 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 28 | And | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 29 | Carpathia | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 30 | Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 31 | Sharp Stars | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 32 | Chaos is the New Calm | 2010 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 33 | Long Lens | 2010 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 34 | Burning of the Three Fires | 2010 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 35 | Diwata ) | 2010 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 36 | Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line | 2010 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 37 | Kingdom Animalia | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 38 | Your Father on the Train of Ghosts | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 39 | Ennui Prophet | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 40 | Transfer | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 41 | Gospel Night | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 42 | The Hands of Strangers | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 43 | True Faith | 2012 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 44 | The Reindeer Camps | 2012 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 45 | To Keep Love Blurry | 2012 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 46 | The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 | 2012 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 47 | Theophobia | 2012 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 48 | The Book of Goodbyes | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 49 | No Need of Sympathy | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 50 | Refuge | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 51 | Birth Marks | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 52 | There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 53 | The Keys to the Jail | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 54 | All You Ask For is Longing | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 55 | What He Took | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 56 | Copia | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 57 | The Chair | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 58 | In a Landscape | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 59 | Fanny Says | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 60 | Testament | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 61 | Why God is a Woman | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 62 | Broken Hallelujahs | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 63 | Antidote for Night | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 64 | I’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 65 | Beautiful Wall | 2015 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 66 | The Black Maria | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 67 | Celestial Joyride | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 68 | Whereso | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 69 | Struggling Times | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 70 | The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 71 | The End of Pink | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 72 | Primitive | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 73 | Mandatory Evacuation | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 74 | The Trembling Answers | 2017 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 75 | Bye-Bye Land | 2017 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 76 | Sky Country | 2017 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 77 | The Smoke of Horses | 2017 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 78 | All Soul Parts Returned | 2017 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 79 | The Second O of Sorrow ) | 2018 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 80 | Holy Moly Carry Me | 2018 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 81 | Clues from the Animal Kingdom ) | 2018 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 82 | Dresses from the Old Country ) | 2018 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 83 | In Country | 2018 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 84 | The Tiny Journalist | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 85 | All Its Charms | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 86 | Night Angler | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 87 | The Human Half | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 88 | Cyborg Detective | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 89 | On the Shores of Welcome Home | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 90 | Rue | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 91 | Year of the Dog | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 92 | Let’s Become a Ghost Story | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 93 | Brand New Spacesuit | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 94 | Mercy | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 95 | How to Carry Water | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 96 | Caw | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 97 | Letters to a Young Brown Girl | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 98 | Mother Country | 2020 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 99 | I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World | 2021 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 100 | The Naomi Letters | 2021 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 101 | Diamonds | 2021 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 102 | Useful Junk | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 103 | Field Notes from the Flood Zone | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 104 | A Season in Hell with Rimbaud | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 105 | Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 106 | A Tinderbox in Three Acts | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 107 | Little Mr. Prose Poem | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 108 | The Dug-Up Gun Museum | 2022 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
The American Poets Continuum is one of the longest-running poetry series in American publishing. Published by BOA Editions, Ltd., the series has released 108 collections since 1987, featuring work from a wide range of poets including Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, and dozens of others.
The series covers an enormous range of voices and styles. Early volumes like Good Woman and The City in Which I Love You sit alongside later titles like Cyborg Detective and Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, reflecting how American poetry has changed over more than three decades. Each collection is a standalone work by a single poet.