Books for National Poetry Month

By Coll Rowe | March 4 2025 | Literature

For National Poetry Month in April, we are sharing poetry collections and books about poetry by authors who have their own stories to tell. These poets delve into history, reimagine the present, examine poetry itself—from traditional poems many know and love to poems and voices that are new and original. Find a full collection of titles here.

Invisible Strings
Invisible Strings
113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
9780593982419
An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including Kate Baer, Maggie Smith, and Joy Harjo.
$26.00 US
Dec 03, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Ballantine Books
Time Is a Mother
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
9780593300237
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.
$25.00 US
Apr 05, 2022
Hardcover
128 Pages
Penguin Press
Rhyme's Rooms
Rhyme's Rooms
The Architecture of Poetry
Brad Leithauser
9780525564133
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.
$20.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Paperback
368 Pages
Vintage
Ink Knows No Borders
Ink Knows No Borders
Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
9781609809072

This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees.

$16.95 US
Mar 12, 2019
Paperback
208 Pages
Triangle Square
Magic Enuff
Magic Enuff
Poems
Tara M. Stringfellow
9780593447437
Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis.
$17.00 US
Jun 25, 2024
Paperback
112 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback
So to Speak
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes
9780143137726

The three sections of Terrance Hayes’ seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling.

$20.00 US
Jul 18, 2023
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
Watch Your Language
Watch Your Language
Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Terrance Hayes
9780143137733

A fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry.

$20.00 US
Jul 18, 2023
Paperback
240 Pages
Penguin Books
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
A Cultural History
Joshua Bennett
9781984897862

A rich hybrid of memoir and history of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.

$17.00 US
May 28, 2024
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
The Heart of American Poetry
The Heart of American Poetry
Edward Hirsch
9781598537260
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
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
9780679642329
This collection, in Stephen Mitchell’s definitive translation, reveals the thoughts and feelings of one of the greatest poets and most distinctive sensibilities of the 20th century.
$18.00 US
Dec 04, 2001
Hardcover
128 Pages
Modern Library
Poukahangatus
Poukahangatus
Poems
Tayi Tibble
9780593467893
An acclaimed young poet 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.
$18.00 US
Jan 23, 2024
Paperback
96 Pages
Knopf
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
A Lyric Essay
Julian Aguon
9781662601637

a collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster; and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.

$23.00 US
Sep 13, 2022
Hardcover
128 Pages
Astra House
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