National Poetry Month

Each April, National Poetry Month celebrates the importance of poetry in our lives and culture. Make a special connection with these collections from today's most influential poets.

Updated March 18, 2025
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Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems
Burt, Stephanie
Paper Book
"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry  In Don't Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly...
The FSG book of twentieth-century Latin American poetry : an anthology
Stavans, Ilan.
Paper Book
A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish and Portuguese. During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Darío's quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejo...
How to read poetry like a professor : a quippy and sonorous guide to verse
Foster, Thomas C.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its...
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years
Harjo, Joy
Paper Book
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 of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining...

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