National Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a poetry collection!

Updated March 25, 2025
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Above ground : poems
Smith, Clint
Paper Book
A Best Book of the Year 2023: TIME NPR's Best Books New York Public Library Electric Lit The Root NBC Today Mother Jones The New York Times bestselling poetry...
American melancholy : poems
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a...
Call us what we carry : poems
Gorman, Amanda
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill...
Forest of noise : poems
Abu Toha, Mosab
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you.<...
The glass constellation : new and collected poems
Sze, Arthur
Paper Book
**Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award** "This book is an overwhelming feast, a treasure, and more than enough proof that Sze is a major poet." --NPR National Book Award winner Arthur Sze is a master poet, and The Glass Constellation...
Paper boat : new and selected poems, 1961-2023
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood--a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes--Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023...
Some of the light : new and selected poems
Hernandez, Tim Z.
Paper Book
25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry Some of the Light gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award...
Tethered to stars : poems
Joudah, Fady
Paper Book
A Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021 A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams. Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of...
Time is a mother
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The...
Yellow rain : poems
Vang, Mai Der
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY A reinvestigation of chemical biological...

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