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Report copyright infringementby Cameron Awkward-Rich (Author)Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack--An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive--and even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence dire...

You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine

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Report copyright infringementby Sherah Bloor (Editor), Tayseer Abu Odeh (Editor), Jorie Graham (Guest Editor)A bilingual anthology of poems from Palestine (2023-2024), You Must Live attests to existence in the face of suppression. Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets cur...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Rosenberg (Author)"I still haven't figured out how to keep / my shower floor clean or make morning / smoothies or respond to stress calmly. / Same, same, same my friends tell me, a love note of sorts." The debut collection from beloved Instagram poet @hannahrowrites, Same is a celebration of one thing we all have in common: a desire to be seen and understood. With her artful blend of intuitive and wise insights, Hannah's observations resonate with reader...

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Report copyright infringementby Chet'la Sebree (Author)Blue Opening, Chet'la Sebree's brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins--of illness, of language, of the universe--as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site of origin through motherhood. Navigating chronic health challenges alongside grief and questions about the nature of knowledge and religion, she searches personal history and the cosmos for answers to the unknowable. With startling clarity and...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Author)*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist*The New Economy memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body.A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical collaboration, failure, and renewal. A world of "Miss You" poems opening a portal to all those we've lost and would love to visit for a while. In Gabrielle Calvocoressi's latest colle...

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Limón (Author)A Los Angeles Times "Most Anticipated"A USA TODAY "Must Read Poetry""Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón's poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful collection is a gift."--Amy TanAn essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers.Drawing from six previously published books--...

Frequently Happy: 52 Mindful Moments to Bring Hope and Joy

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Report copyright infringementby David Larbi (Author)Find the joy--no matter how big or small--in every moment!In the midst of stress and turmoil, it can be easy to miss the daily opportunities we have for delight. Cheerful poet David Larbi reminds us that in every season of life and the year, there is the possibility for joy--if only we would claim it.Through bright poems, moving meditations, and inspiring journal prompts, this book offers you a chance to reflect on the happy happenstances al...

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Report copyright infringementby Courtney Kampa (Author)"A kaleidoscopic and finely-tuned voice full of acuity, wit, intelligence and, perhaps most importantly, a deep and defiant love for a world burning at its edges. I am so grateful to have come upon this true poet." --Ocean VuongA gorgeous collection of poems exploring womanhood, sisterhood, love, loss, and longing, for people who find catharsis in poems, or people who have always wanted to read poetry, but don't know where to start."How l...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Howe (Author) What labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howe's new book opens with the arresting long prose poem "Penitential Cries," followed by a group of word-collages "Sterling Park in the Dark," "The Deserted Shelf," and finally a brief sparrow poem. Speaking of her new work written in "the evening of life," Howe quotes Thomas Wyatt: My galley, chargèd with...

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Report copyright infringementby Aracelis Girmay (Author)The Whiting Award-winning poet returns.Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of corporate industries of birth and death. In language shaped by ...

The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death, & Dive Bars

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Schuffman (Author)For over two decades, writer, rabble-rouser, and bon vivant, Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart), has been chronicling life in San Francisco with grit, wit, and an open bar tab. Part memoir, part cultural archive, The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart brings together twenty years of stories about scraping by, speaking up, and falling in and out of love with the most beautifully heartwarming and heartbreaking place in America. With delectabl...

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Report copyright infringementby Ideals (Author)Celebrate the wonder and hope of this holiday season with Christmas Ideals, a time-honored tradition and family favorite. Continuing its legacy of holiday cheer and warmth, this Ideals annual Christmas edition is a collection of poetry, essays, quotations, recipes, and Bible excerpts. Each carefully chosen selection from authors such as C.S. Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Pamela Kennedy is complemented by full-color artwork or beautiful ...

A Candle Unconsumed: Poetry in the Language of the Jewish Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Rabbi Evan Schultz (Author)The metaphor of the Jew-or the Jewish people-as a perpetual flame or fire is one that has endured throughout our history. Enter any synagogue, for example, and above the Torah scrolls you will discover a ner tamid-an eternal light that is never to be extinguished. We, the Jewish people, are a candle unconsumed. Our light and our fire, God willing, will always shine brightly.A Candle Unconsumed, Rabbi Evan Schultz's magnificent second ...

The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders

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Report copyright infringementby Luisa A. Igloria (Editor), Aileen Cassinetto (Editor), David Hassler (Editor)The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural WondersEdited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler; Foreword by Phillip LevinOriginally envisioned as a companion to the first-ever U.S. National Nature Assessment (NNA1) and now to the work of United By Nature, this anthology features 210 voices from the arts, ecology, academia,...

Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Coste Lewis (Author)The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste Lewis's poems exploded the imagery of the Black female figure from antiquity through the present day. Her second book was an expansive hybrid photographic and poetic study of human migra...

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Report copyright infringementby Iain Haley Pollock (Author)Steeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of All the Possible Bodies attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal and national identity. Pollock's third collection is an emotionally candid and intimate portrait of our varied identities as Americans: the ways we treat one another, the value we assign to each others' lives, and the persistent internal co...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Collins (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life. "Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR "Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, Water, Water is a pleasure to read and easy to give."--The Washington Post "Collins remains the most co...

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Report copyright infringementby Joey Kidney (Author)Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering. With over 10 million followers across his vast social media platform, Canadian-born writer Joey Kidney has built a thriving international community of supporters seeking his brotherly advice on life, l...

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney Hanson (Author)From Instagram phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Climate, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems i don't worry about the weather anymorewhen it rains, i dancewhen the sun shines, i dancethrough it all, i will dance--from Climate Honest, poignant, and relatable, Climate is a journey in embracing change both internally and externally. It guides us through all the weather we may face, from t...

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Report copyright infringementby Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (Author)TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages-interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical--constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood.The voices in this collection are driven by d...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennae Cecelia (Author)When vulnerability is hard, Deep in My Feels is the perfect poetry collection to remind you that sharing your feelings is not only okay, but necessary. Through the evocative verses of her fourteenth book of poetry, Jennae Cecelia invites readers to explore the rich tapestry of love, loss, and hope that defines the human condition as she walks with you on a journey of self-discovery and emotional liberation. Deeply vulnerable and innately ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shannon Jade (Author)Soon, I swear it, my simple words will spella song for the earth.The wide, wild world is made of wonder, but as climate change reinvents the landscape, rich ecosystems are under threat. On a journey through Earth's major biomes, January learns the plight of the planet. Armed with the power of a voice made for poetry, she turns her lyrics into a call for action. Is it enough to write a song for the earth and ask the world to sing along? ...

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Report copyright infringementby Salaam Green (Author)I want to know what you know about my peopleI said to the caretaker's granddaughter. I want you to tell me something about them. The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville, Alabama in 1841. Thirty-nine people enslaved by Samuel Wallace, the owner of the property, constructed the house and worked the land. For generations, the house remained in the Wallace family and is ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lehman (Author), Terence Winch (Author)Guest edited by Terence Winch--NEA Fellow and editor of the "pick of the week" on the Best American Poetry blog--the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nation's most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired simila...

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Report copyright infringementby Henri Cole (Author)Henri Cole pins the complexities of aging and the mystery of the passage of time to the page. The Other Love is most of all a reflection on aging and the passing of time. It is here that the struggle between form and chaos is most poignantly palpable in Henri Cole's ravishing new book. The Other Love is also a way of seeing the world, an attitude more than an emotion, a love of things and people as they are, and of being open to the beauty an...

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Scott McGill (Translator), Susannah Wright (Translator)Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil's Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring account of human struggle, meddling gods, and conflicting destinies, the poem brings to life the triumphs and trials that led to one of the most powerful societies the worl...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobby Elliott (Author)Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize A one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, The Same Man is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the past. Haunted by memory and powered by the demands and joys of new life, Elliott's poems wrestle with the father-son relationship at their core and the deep, unspoken harms that shape us. A relentless effort toward expression and autonomy, T...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Shapero (Author)In Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.The politics of labor and performance collide with comedy and tragedy in Natalie Shapero's fourth poetry collection, Stay Dead. Shapero's unflinching poems explore theories of acting, discourses of survival, privacy and publicity, power and punchlines, and the language of despair. This work explores how "y...

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Report copyright infringementby Aja Monet (Author)Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, lover, and community organizer. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Young (Author)From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal Following on his exquisite Stones, Kevin Young's new collection, written over the span of sixteen years, shapes stories of loss and legacy, inspired in part by other lives. After starting in the bayous of his family's Louisiana, Young journeys to further state...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Cope (Author)"[Cope] writes the sort of poems almost no one does any longer . . . She seems always to know what to say, and what to do, in dark moments." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThis volume comprises the full poetic works of one of England's wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a celebrated ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Olds (Author)A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane Seuss. Satan Says was originally published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1980 and received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center A...