Poetry for All Ages

Updated March 27, 2024
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And yet : poems
Baer, Kate
Paper Book
From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry collection, And Yet. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let...
Milk and honey
Kaur, Rupi
Paper Book
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness...
A year of nature poems
Coelho, Joseph
Paper Book
From Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho comes a beautiful anthology of monthly nature poems which encourage a love for the natural world and the importance of looking after it.  See how animals behave through the seasons, and the...
You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves
Whitney, Diana
Paper Book
Poems to Turn to Again and Again - from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More   Created and compiled just for young women, You Don't Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest,...
Stars with flaming tails poems
Bloom, Valerie, 1956- author.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE CLIPPA CHILDREN'S POETRY PRIZE 2022 I traveled once around the world On stars with flaming tails, And touched the colors of my dreams Along some silver trails. Look out for best...
Ink knows no borders poems of the immigrant and refugee experience
Vecchione, Patrice, editor.
Paper Book
Contributors to Ink Knows No Borders- ELIZABETH ACEVEDO | SAMIRA AHMED | KAVEH AKBAR | EAVAN BOLAND | CHEN CHEN | SAFIA ELHILLO | MART N ESPADA | CARLOS ANDR S G MEZ | JOSEPH O. LEGASPI | ADA LIM N | EMTITHAL MAHMOUD | BAO PHI | ALBERTO R OS | ERIKA L. S NCHEZ | GARY SOTO |...
The sun and her flowers
Kaur, Rupi
Paper Book
Watch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." -- The New Republic From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry....
Time is a mother
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
Discover the Sunday Timesbestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 'One of the most important poets of his generation' ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical 'Powerful' ...
Home body
Kaur, Rupi
Paper Book
Watch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in...
Dearly : new poems
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her...
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver
Oliver, Mary
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club 'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive...
Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems
Dove, Rita
Paper Book
In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls'...
I would leave me if I could : a collection of poetry
Halsey
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, she reveals never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of...
Call us what we carry : poems
Gorman, Amanda
Paper Book
The breakout poetry collectionby Sunday Timesbestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry...
Vivid poems & notes about color
Paschkis, Julie, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Playful poems and facts celebrate the colors of the rainbow in this beautiful nonfiction picture book. Orange you sweet? Orange you plump and juicy? Orange you my favorite fruit? Hey - you're a tangerine! B-lime-y. With...
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem
Gorman, Amanda
Paper Book
'For there is always light If only we're brave enough to be it. If only we're brave enough to see it.' **Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller** 'I was profoundly moved... The power of your words...
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet
Harrison, David L.
Paper Book
15 fun and fact-filled poems about soil--what makes it and who lives in it! This book unearths some of the glorious mysteries that lie beneath our feet! A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Spectacular vertical panoramas illustrating life underground...
Somebody give this heart a pen
Thakur, Sophia
Paper Book
"An amazingly talented spoken word artist" MTVFrom acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring issues of identity, difference, faith, relationships, fear, loss and joy. Intricate, evocative and dazzling - these are poems that explore the experiences...
Inheritance a visual poem
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Paper Book
They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the...

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