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• This Is the Honey

  An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

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  In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just About Anything

  Aaron, Jonathan

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  A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron. A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about them remains mysterious.

• Forest of Noise

  Abu Toha, Mosab

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  A scholar and a librarian, Mosab Abu Toha is also a major poet whose first collection made him a talent to celebrate. After graduating from a master's program at Syracuse, he returned home to complete his second work. Then the current assault on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dearly

  New Poems

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.

• And Yet

  Poems

  Baer, Kate

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  The second full-length poetry collection from the ... author.

• When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance

  Poems

  Baez, Joan

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  An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Super Gay Poems

  LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

  Burt, Stephanie, 1971-

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  A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.

• Mother River

  Canxue, 1953-

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  Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award In Mother River, Can Xue, one of China's most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself. This collection of thirteen stories weaves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With My Back to the World

  Poems

  Chang, Victoria, 1970-

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• These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

  Poems

  Charara, Hayan, 1972-

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  From Hayan Charara comes a candid new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.

• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

  Choi, Franny

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  Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water, Water

  Collins, Billy

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  In more than sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauty and irony of daily life. The best poetry, he believes, begins with clarity and ends in mystery, and in Water, Water we encounter a writer endlessly astonished by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Diaspora Sonnets

  De la Paz, Oliver, 1972-

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  The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts--from the restrained use of rhyme in "Diaspora Sonnet in the Summer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Is This My Final Form?

  Gerstler, Amy

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  A poet renowned for her "wit and complexity" (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date Aren't we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Us What We Carry

  Poems

  Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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  The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.

• Black Oak

  Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men

  Green, Harold, III

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  As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires-groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

  Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  Harjo, Joy

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  A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

• Some of the Light

  New and Selected Poems

  Hernandez, Tim Z.

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  Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Waste Land

  a Biography of a Poem

  Hollis, Matthew

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  Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded…Read moreRead more of this annotation