April Is Poetry Month

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Updated March 10, 2025
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You, too, could write a poem
Orr, David 1974-
Paper Book
A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place   Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands...
So far so good : poems, 2014-2018
Le Guin, Ursula K. 1929-2018
Paper Book
"Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders life, death and the vast beyond in So Far So Good, an astute, charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs here--cats, wind, strong women -...
Only as the day is long : new and selected poems
Laux, Dorianne
Paper Book
Only as the Day Is Long represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest contemporary poets, known to bear compassionate and ruthless witness to the quotidian. Drawn from Dorianne Laux's five expansive volumes, including her confident debut Awake, National Book Critics Circle...
I had a brother once : a poem, a memoir
Mansbach, Adam 1976-
Paper Book
A brilliant, genre-defying work-both memoir and epic poem-about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss "A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone... a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life...

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