Celebrating National Poetry Month
By Colleen Rowe | March 8 2023 | Literature
978-1-5247-3258-5
Winner of the Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
$35.00 US
Dec 06, 2022
Hardcover
384 Pages
Knopf
A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
978-0-593-49800-2
An acclaimed young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in Western Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally her own life, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood.
$18.00 US
Aug 02, 2022
Paperback
240 Pages
Hogarth
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- English > Literature > American Literature – African American
- English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
978-1-59853-726-0
An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition
$26.00 US
Apr 19, 2022
Hardcover
480 Pages
Library of America
978-0-14-313682-8
A third collection that reveals an acclaimed poet further extending his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood
$20.00 US
Sep 20, 2022
Paperback
144 Pages
Penguin Books
Poems
978-0-593-53482-3
It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.
$27.00 US
Sep 13, 2022
Hardcover
176 Pages
Knopf
Poems
978-0-593-13435-1
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.
$17.00 US
Mar 01, 2022
Paperback
96 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
978-0-593-30023-7
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
$24.00 US
Apr 05, 2022
Hardcover
128 Pages
Penguin Press
Poems
978-0-8070-4307-3
From the renowned inaugural poet, a collection exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses.
$15.00 US
Mar 24, 2020
Paperback
112 Pages
Beacon Press
Poems
978-0-593-53493-9
From one of America’s most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the next
$28.00 US
Aug 09, 2022
Hardcover
96 Pages
Knopf
Poems
978-0-593-22948-4
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children
$17.00 US
Jul 12, 2022
Paperback
144 Pages
One World
- English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Poetry
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- English > Literature > American Literature – African American
- English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Literature
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978-0-14-313689-7
“O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic From a "brilliant, absolutely essential voice" whose "poems feel like whole worlds" (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred
$20.00 US
Jul 05, 2022
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
978-1-60980-907-2
Contributors to Ink Knows No Borders:
$16.95 US
Mar 12, 2019
Paperback
208 Pages
Triangle Square
- English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Asian American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Non-Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Native American Poetry
- English > Creative Writing > Poetry
- English > Literature > Introduction to Poetry
- English > Literature > World Poetry
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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978-1-5247-1161-0
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).
$20.00 US
Oct 04, 2022
Paperback
192 Pages
Knopf
Poems
978-0-399-58978-2
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence--from the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love.
$26.00 US
Nov 15, 2022
Hardcover
176 Pages
Random House
978-0-14-313766-5
A new collection from a poet whose “celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual connection to the Earth delight, entertain, and elevate” (The Poetry Foundation)
$20.00 US
Apr 04, 2023
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
A Library of America Anthology
978-1-59853-666-9
A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
$45.00 US
Oct 20, 2020
Hardcover
1170 Pages
Library of America
Poems
978-0-593-53460-1
Poūkahangatus is the American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.
$27.00 US
Jul 26, 2022
Hardcover
96 Pages
Knopf
978-1-9848-5412-4
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.
$18.00 US
Sep 14, 2021
Paperback
464 Pages
Modern Library
- English > Classics > Classical Mythology
- English > Classics > Introduction to Classics
- English > Classics > Latin Language and Literature
- English > Literature > World Literature Survey – Classic to 17th Century
- English > Literature > World Poetry
- History > Period History: Western Civilization > Roman History
- History > Regional History: Western Civilization > Roman History
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978-0-14-313737-5
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry
$20.00 US
Mar 07, 2023
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
Poems
978-0-593-53593-6
The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.
$28.00 US
Mar 07, 2023
Hardcover
112 Pages
Knopf
978-0-8129-6920-7
Ideal for students and general readers alike, this modern and accessible edition sets a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
$10.00 US
Apr 14, 2009
Paperback
400 Pages
Modern Library
978-0-14-312148-0
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
$30.00 US
Sep 24, 2013
Paperback
656 Pages
Penguin Books
A Cultural History
978-0-525-65701-9
Here is a fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.
$30.00 US
Mar 28, 2023
Hardcover
304 Pages
Knopf
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Poetry
- English > Creative Writing > Poetry
- English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
- English > Literature > Introduction to Poetry
- Performing Arts > Special Topics
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The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
978-0-525-65826-9
Here is an evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm.
$38.00 US
Feb 28, 2023
Hardcover
432 Pages
Knopf
The Architecture of Poetry
978-0-525-65505-3
From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems.
$30.00 US
Feb 22, 2022
Hardcover
368 Pages
Knopf
Tags: Poetry, National Poetry Month
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