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...
Balladz
Olds, Sharon
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). "At the time of have-not, I...
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...
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Emezi, Akwaeke
Paper Book
The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi--award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji,and Dear Senthuran<...
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.<...
Foxglovewise : poems
Mlinko, Ange
Paper Book
Ange Mlinko, whose poetry is "irresistible" (Los Angeles Review of Books), opens our perception of other lives, or lives unlived. Foxglovewise is, at its core, a response to the singular experience of the loss of one's parents. It begins at an Eastern Orthodox...
From from : poems
Youn, Monica
Paper Book
* WINNER OF THE 2024 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD * * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, TIME, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, BOMB, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL *
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...
Harmony
Hanson, Whitney
Paper Book
In this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a simple note, but as life progresses, we're led to the next note, and the next - all of which combine to form the melody of a song and the cadence of a life. As life...
Judas goat
Bates, Gabrielle
Paper Book
Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle...
I love hearing your dreams : poems
Zapruder, Matthew
Paper Book
From a poet whose "poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it" (Boston Review), an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions. "Your dreams / have no hidden / agenda to be wise / they are made...
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...
Rangikura : poems
Tibble, Tayi
Paper Book
A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, "One of the most startling and original poets of her generation." Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up....
Rose quartz : poems
LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu
Paper Book
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing--and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual. "Draw me encircled // in something // other than gasoline." The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one...
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...
Spectral evidence : poems
Pardlo, Gregory
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY . A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating-Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo...
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...
Useful junk
Meitner, Erika
Paper Book
A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems. In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of...
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...
Woman without shame : poems
Cisneros, Sandra
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- TIME and GOODREADS . A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before...
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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