National Poetry Month Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
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The Best American Poetry 2025
Lehman, David
Paper Book
Guest edited by Terence Winch--NEA Fellow and editor of the "pick of the week" on the Best American Poetry blog--the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty-eight years,...
Latino poetry : the Library of America anthology
González, Rigoberto
Paper Book
There are a brilliant array of contemporary voices here as well, spinning out the tapestry of Latino poetry in daring new directions. Taking the measure of this current renaissance, the anthology culminates with the most comprehensive survey of twenty-first century Latino poetry yet published....
Poems & prayers
McConaughey, Matthew
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Academy Award-winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.
Super gay poems : LGBTQIA+ poetry after Stonewall
Burt, Stephanie
Paper Book
Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for Poetry A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A...

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