Poetry for Adults

April is National Poetry Month, an occasion to celebrate poets and poetry, and to mark poetry’s importance in our lives.

Updated March 3, 2026
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Quiet : poems
Bulley, Victoria Adukwei
Paper Book
A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love. "Bulley's stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the...
Becoming Ghost
Che, Cathy Linh.
Paper Book
2025 National Book Award Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist 2026 APALA Literature Awards - Asian American Poetry Winner Ms. Magazine's Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections,...
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
Paper Book
A Time Must-Read Book of the YearWinner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionWinner of the 2025 Zora Award A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize ...
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry
Harjo, Joy
Paper Book
Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark...
Poet in the new world : poems, 1946-1953
Miłosz, Czesław
Paper Book
A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after. One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czesław Miłosz...
From unincorporated territory [Ã¥mot]
Santos Perez, Craig
Paper Book
Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet's homeland, Guam.   This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of...
Customs : poems
Sharif, Solmaz
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for Poetry Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award<...
Tripas : poems
Som, Brandon
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which...
The blue house : collected works of Tomas Transtrm?er
Transtrm?er, Tomas
Paper Book
Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existential, through poems that expand like the widening scope of a telephoto lens. With slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas...
Something about living
Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf
Paper Book
Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry 2025 ALA Notable Book Winner of the 2025 Washington State Book Award for Poetry 2025 Arab American Book Award Winner (George Ellenbogen Poetry Award) Winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize It's nearly impossible to...

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