National Poetry Month Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
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Howe, Marie
Paper Book
Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles....
Super Gay Poems : LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall
Burt, Stephanie.
Ebook
Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for Poetry A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A...

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