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Report copyright infringementby Emily Bird (Author)You know that feeling when you hear a song, see a sunset, or stumble across a line of poetry - and your first thought is them?That's exactly what this book is about.From viral Instagram poet Emily Bird, This Made Me Think of You is a collection of heartfelt poems for the person who lives in the back of your mind no matter where you are.The ones you'd send a message to at 2am, the ones who know you better than you know yourself. Some poems wil...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Paino (Author)Not since I sat down half a century ago on a bookstore floor with a paperback copy of Alan Dugan's Poems have I been so astonished. Like the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand with its nine extra bass keys, Paino has a supernumerary octave up his sleeve that lends unparalleled depth to this collection. - Roger Weingarten*************Frank Paino's Dark Octaves, a postmodern canon akin to Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell or Milton's Paradise Lost, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Devorah Major (Author)Top Poetry Books of Fall 2016 - Library JournalWho are we humans, with our differences and our personal histories, mythologies and urgencies, as well as our collective struggles and dreams? Why are we here?Questions of culture, ethnicity and gender--and the denial of those borders--infuse these poems, rich with social and political commentary, and filled with compassion, love, anger and hope. Even while writing of one child, one homeless p...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Fragos (Editor)A unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many forms, secular and spiritual. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected here range from Sappho, Horace, and Rumi to Shakespeare and Milton, from Wordsworth, Rilke, Yeats, Rossetti, and Dickinson to Czes...

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Burton (Author)The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy is a collection of charmingly weird tales conjured from the unique imagination of acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton--a great gift idea for fans of the acclaimed filmmaker.From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance--witty and macabre at once. Now, he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children--mis...

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

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Report copyright infringementby Margarita Engle (Author)In 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world's two largest oceans and signaled America's emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood--and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands lost their lives, and those who survived worked under the harshest conditions for only a few silver coins a day. From the young "silver people" whose back-br...

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Report copyright infringementby Drew Dellinger (Author)The Poetic Cosmos is a book of quotations unlike any other - curated by acclaimed poet and writer, Drew Dellinger, from his decades of reading and research, this collection crosses decades and centuries, and a range of traditions, to convene the most brilliant thoughts and illuminating insights on the themes of Poetry, Democracy, Art, and Interconnectedness.The creative, compassionate wisdom constellated into The Poetic Cosmos proves glar...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Sze (Author)*From the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate**Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*Finalist for the 2026 PEN / Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle AwardWith imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush, from U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.Like wind on a lake, Arthur Sze's twel...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Baer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Kate Baer's poems are so full of life--life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book."--Emma Straub"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."--Catherine NewmanThe third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of ...

Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Binkly (Editor), Sarah Carr (Editor), Chuck Greaves (Editor)Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2 is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (13 short stories, 25 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2025. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: November 11, 2025...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Snider (Author)An unflinching tale of selfishness and sacrifice, guilt and resentment, hope and despair, Bruce Snider's fourth collection tells the story of two brothers torn apart by opioid addiction. These sublime poems paint a singular portrait of rural working-class America populated by shuttered tool factories and country gay bars, hidden fishing holes and Dolly Parton drag queens. Drawing on music and myth, science and history, Snider interrogates t...

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Report copyright infringementby Makshya Tolbert (Author)From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a "startlingly original debut" (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property, and urban planning in Charlottesville, Virginia Shade is a place meanders east-west along Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking "a Black sense of place" at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the mall's architectural history, and the s...

Explaining A Dress: Transfeminine Erasure and Vindication

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Report copyright infringementby Jessie Keary (Author)Explaining a Dress by Jessie Keary is both a recollection and an homage to the forgotten history of trans women. Rooted in the precise craft of erasure poetry, these pieces resonate with quiet protest, sophisticated confidence, and untold violences of the past. In Keary's work, the clothing of trans women-a white scarf, a gingham gown, silk shirts-becomes an emblem of resistance, tenderness, and the radical beauty of being seen. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Embrace Journee (Author)Breadcrumbs of Becoming is a debut collection of poetry that transforms pain into beauty and survival into testimony. Writing as Embrace Journee, the author weaves personal truth with ancestral echoes, guiding readers through struggle, stillness, and transformation. Each poem is both a reflection of her own journey and an invitation to embrace yours-illuminating the golden breadcrumbs that mark the path toward healing and becoming whole....

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Report copyright infringementby Ally Ang (Author)In poems born of intense loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at a convergence of apocalypses: a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, and numerous global uprisings, Ally Ang's Let the Moon Wobble asks and seeks to answer the question: What makes the end of the world worth surviving? Let the Moon Wobble considers multiple speakers' journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the rise of fascism. With humor, lyric...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon Kilbourne (Author)A unique work of science and poetry, winner of the Cave Canem Prize, selected by Natasha Trethewey A research biologist most recently at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Brandon Kilbourne illuminates the intersections between science and poetry in poems that demonstrate the wonder, curiosity, and precision required by both disciplines. Natural History opens by confronting the hidden histories within the study of biology and its lin...

Made from Midnight: a requiem: a poets in the pines anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Miller (Author), Anne Ramallo (Author), Leah Cass (Author)It's midnight, darling. The hour has come.Made from Midnight: A Requiem is a haunting and luminous collection of poetry, short fiction, and hybrid prose exploring what it means to lose, and what it means to become. Within these pages, award-winning authors from the Poets in the Pines collective invite readers into a world where grief breathes, memory echoes, and beauty grows through the cracks.Part...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul J. Willis (Author)What happens when an American poet most at home in Yosemite is summoned to teach in the faraway land of Italy? In the tradition of Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, Paul J. Willis comes to terms with the Umbrian town of Orvieto in a suite of poems that are sure to land in your memory and imagination. By means of research, experience, observation, and, perhaps, more than a small dose of naivete, he fills his verse with the strangeness and won...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Degenaars (Author)Thin Glass unfolds in the after-hours of a city: neon signs blinking, windows open to the street, sidewalks slick with rain. In this lyric coming-of-age, Degenaars writes with clarity and vulnerability about those caught between responsibility and abandon, love and self-erasure.These poems follow a speaker in flux-lover, daughter, would-be mother-as she questions what it means to survive, and even celebrate, the in-between. "Despite ...

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Report copyright infringementby Isha Bhatt (Author)(b)mused is what happens when love doesn't arrive. When someone becomes a muse, but never quite a mirror. When confusion becomes its own kind of intimacy. In these poems, the speaker drifts between clarity and ache, tracing the soft violence of a connection that left more questions than closure. To be (b)mused is to be inspired and unraveled, to feel the edges blur between tenderness and disorientation, memory and myth. This is not a love sto...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Gual (Author), Akaiser (Translator)Anna Gual's poems express life in all its unexpectedness, whether she is exploring relationships between human beings and the rest of our universe, between and within bodies, or language itself. Scientific inquiry informs her work as she observes both the visible and the invisible. She is a leading figure in the Catalan literary world, a prolific prize-winning author of eight collections of poetry. Unnamable will be Gual'...

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Report copyright infringementby Bonnie Naradzay (Author)"Do not hurry your journey," the poet says midway through this stunning collection. "Better if it lasts for years, so you arrive / laden with all you've lost along the way." Bonnie Naradzay's journey-as mother, professional, teacher, and longtime volunteer, leading poetry sessions in prisons, a retirement community, and among the homeless-has gathered much of both the lost and found, culminating in the publication of Invited to the Feast...

Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Ward (Author)Welcome to Morning Night, Dr. Larry Ward's first poetry collection.This book emerged from his thirty years of teaching mindfulness and focuses on the themes of spirit, race, and nature with the aim of lifting our sights. It has been washed in holy tears and the joys of many hearts.We invite you to explore Larry's poetry that flows from his practice of mindful awareness. In Morning Night, he refers to writing poetry "as a little act of daring"...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Read (Author)The Serious World is a collection of epistolary poems written to Sylvia Plath about depression, therapy, friendship, family, and the struggling life of an artist. With humor, sensitivity, and deep reflection, Laura Read explores many themes including mental health, suicide, loss, feminism, motherhood, and aging, offering a fresh view of the world as seen through the feminist poet's searching spyglass. Reaching back into history to talk with P...

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Report copyright infringementby Melody Godfred (Author)Reconnect with your intuition, heal gently, and manifest your dreams with intention--one season, one cycle, one phase at a time. From Melody Godfred, author of the international bestseller Self Love Poetry for Thinkers & Feelers, comes Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation, a one-of-a-kind poetry book where the moon becomes your manifestation guide. This isn't a book that pushes you forward. Moon Garden welcomes you home to yourself....

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Report copyright infringementby Bernardo Wade (Author), Ross Gay (Foreword by)Bernardo Wade's A Love Tap--introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay--reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic evolution of a poet who has found himself in the language.Wade's evocative debut swaggers through time, through family, through love, through the perseverance of growing up in the deep South as a Black son with a...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Hemmert (Author)No Longer at This Address explores place and the psychology of leaving through the inflammatory lens of the American West. The collection uses the lyric-narrative mode to complicate notions of rootedness and address the ephemerality of where one's from. The poems visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse with a collapsed satellite, and find complicated joy among wildfire ash and lost dogs. No Longer at This Address is a catalog...

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Report copyright infringementby Kennedy LeBlanc (Author)What Grows from Grief is a tender debut collection that holds space for loss, love, and the quiet ways life continues after tragedy. With honesty and clarity, these twenty-one poems trace the ache of absence while uncovering moments of resilience and unexpected beauty. This abbreviated edition offers a glimpse into a larger body of work that reminds us: from grief, something still grows. Number of Pages: 34 Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby Lara Egger (Author)A New Yorker Best Book of 2025Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans, "there are never enough nails in the coffin of poor choices." While Egger throws confetti on the quotidian, she disarms the read...

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Report copyright infringementby Seadorf (Author)Five Baptisms is written by Brian in chronological order from: birth in a conservative, small-town Methodist church to "falling away" to joining an ultra-conservative evangelical megachurch to becoming Catholic back to Methodist then Episcopal, then to becoming a None, along the way being baptized four times with his deconstruction being the fifth. Five Baptisms contains many specific pop culture references of his life in the 80s and 90s, so ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Ann Ward (Author)Where I Lay It Down is a heartfelt poetry collection chronicling the bittersweet moments of life; both the beautiful and the challenging. Through verses steeped in sorrow and joy, Cindy Ann Ward invites readers on a journey of healing, exploring the choices we make in the face of ego, hurt, loss, and grief. This collection speaks to women who seek solace and understanding, as each rhyme reveals a path to finding peace. Marking a turning p...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachelle Toarmino (Author)Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino's highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a hell yeah between friends, the poems interject into various sites of the interpersonal-from a work email and doctor's office to a long-distance call and Yahoo! Answers rabbit hole--to measure the strange, mundane, and ancient ways we relate and respond to ...