Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month 2025. Turn to poetry to celebrate, cherish, mourn, critique, and explore the myriad bonds that family forms in our lives. Parents, pets, friendships, soulmates, siblings, plants, and beyond.

Updated March 19, 2025
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Dearly : poems
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
Violet bent backwards over the grass
Del Rey, Lana
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling debut book of poetry from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety,...
The complete tales & poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
Milne, A. A.
Paper Book
In 1926, the world was introduced to a portly little bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Along with his young friend, Christopher Robin, Pooh delighted readers from the very beginning. His often befuddled perceptions and adorable insights won the hearts of everyone around him, including his close group of...
Widow's Crayon Box : Poems
Peacock, Molly.
Paper Book
After her husband's death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow's mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems--joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving--composed in sonnet...
Scientific Marvel : Poems
Undi, Chimwemwe.
Paper Book
Winner, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry CBC Best Book of 2024 Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi's poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Firmly grounded in the local, the arresting...
This is a tiny fragile snake
Ruddock, Nicholas.
Paper Book
Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help...
Queer and fearless : poems celebrating the lives of LGBTQ+ heroes
Sanders, Rob
Paper Book
Learn about the lives of some of the most important LGBTQ+ heroes in this unique picture book that combines poetry and biographical information to honor those at the forefront of LGBTQ+ history. Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the...

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