Staff Picks

Category: Poetry

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

Joanna

The Best American Poetry 2021

Tracy K. Smith editor

This presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.

Joanna

All The Names Given

Raymond Antrobus

A timely, tender book full of humanity and remembrance from one of the most important young poets of our generation.

Joanna

Poet Warrior: a Memoir

This is a luminous journey of becoming that sings with all the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery

Joanna

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today.

Joanna

Postcolonial Love Poem

Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.

Joanna

All This Change

Her poems are like entries in an intimate journal; expression of her heart's passions and sorrows.

Rachael

On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus

The primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses the concept of divine intervention.