Staff Picks

Category: Poetry

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

Joanna

New translation by Emily Wilson--"The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time."

Joanna

"Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance."

Joanna

Promises of Gold

"Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream"

Crisanne

You Better Be Lightning

"A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self -reflection."

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.