Poetry Month

Find a new poem or poet to enjoy during National Poetry Month, or learn about the history of the craft 🖊️

Updated February 9, 2026
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Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world /
Ó Tuama, Padraig
Paper Book
In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's...
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
Alyan, Hala.
Paper Book
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of displacement and war. A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a...
The heart of American poetry
Hirsch, Edward
Paper Book
An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American...
Ledger : poems
Hirshfield, Jane 1953-
Paper Book
A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate, from the internationally renowned poet. Ledger's pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane Hirshfield...
A little history of poetry /
Carey, John,
Paper Book
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times   "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-...
Beowulf : a new translation
Headley, Maria Dahvana 1977-
Paper Book
Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for...
Goldenrod : poems
Smith, Maggie 1977-
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR "To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." --Time "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." --People
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Harjo, Joy.
Paper Book
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet. 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...
Zero at the bone : fifty entries against despair
Wiman, Christian 1966-
Paper Book
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an...
A year of last things : poems
Ondaatje, Michael 1943-
Paper Book
From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited...

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