Poetry Month

Find a new poem or poet to enjoy during National Poetry Month, or learn about the history of the craft 🖊️

Updated February 9, 2026
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world
?? Tuama, Padraig
Ebook
Beowulf : a new translation
Headley, Maria Dahvana 1977-
Paper Book
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible...
Goldenrod : poems
Smith, Maggie 1977-
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR "To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." --Time "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." --People
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Harjo, Joy.
Ebook
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source...
Zero at the bone : fifty entries against despair
Wiman, Christian 1966-
Paper Book
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an...
A year of last things : poems
Ondaatje, Michael 1943-
Paper Book
From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.