National Poetry Month 2025 - Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2025
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Alareer, Refaat
Paper Book
"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family. The renowned...
So far so good : final poems, 2014-2018
Le Guin, Ursula K.
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 -...
The sun and her flowers /
Kaur, Rupi
Paper Book
From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.<...
Things you may find hidden in my ear : poems from Gaza
Abu Toha, Mosab
Paper Book
Winner of the Palestine Book Award and the American Book Award  National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist Shortlisted for the 2022 Walcott Poetry Prize "Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts...
Wade in the water : [online electronic book] poems.
Smith, Tracy K.
Ebook
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones Jangling...
A year of last things : poems
Ondaatje, Michael
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Included on The Guardian's Best Recent Poetry * Longlisted for the 2024 UK Poet Laureate's Laurel Prize * One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 * Named a Best Book of 2024 by Winnipeg Free Press With A...

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