National Poetry Month

Updated January 29, 2025
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The woman who fell from the sky : poems
Harjo, Joy.
Paper Book
The author draws on her Native American heritage to offer poems combining elements of storytelling, prayer, and song.
The hurting kind : poems
Limón, Ada
Paper Book
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. "I have always been too...
Old Possum's book of practical cats
Eliot, T. S.
Paper Book
The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats, with whimsical illustrations by Edward Gorey. These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and...
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver
Oliver, Mary
Paper Book
Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. "No matter where one starts reading, Devotions<...
Balladz
Olds, Sharon.
Ebook
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). "At the time of have-not, I...
Tonight no poetry will serve : poems, 2007-2010
Rich, Adrienne
Paper Book
In the intimate address of "Axel Avákar," the black humor of "Quarto," and the underground journey of "Powers of Recuperation," compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, "I believe almost everything...

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