National Poetry Month

Each April, National Poetry Month celebrates the importance of poetry in our lives and culture. Make a special connection with these collections from today's most influential poets.

Updated March 18, 2025
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Call Us What We Carry Poems
Gorman, Amanda.
Ebook
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...
Dearly : poems /
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
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...
Fierce fairytales : poems & stories to stir your soul
Gill, Nikita
Paper Book
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses;...
The FSG book of twentieth-century Latin American poetry : an anthology /
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Paper Book
A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish and Portuguese. During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Darío's quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejo...
How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry
Sol, Adam
Paper Book
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic...
Inheritance : [online electronic book] a visual poem.
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Ebook
They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the...
Milk and honey /
Kaur, Rupi
Paper Book
Watch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence...
Morning glory on the vine : early songs & drawings
Mitchell, Joni
Paper Book
A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time   In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni...
Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work
Paschen, Elise.
Paper Book
"By the time you''re done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more."--WALL STREET JOURNAL "The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a...
Why poetry
Zapruder, Matthew
Paper Book
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry--and poetry alone--can do. Zapruder argues...

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