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Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry — Finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Danez Smith is our president.

Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together.

"One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years."—Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR.

From Dr. Martina McGowan, I am The Rage is a Nautilus Award and BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award–winning collection perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou.

Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets.

People's Poet - Pacific Rim Review.

In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked: What would an inventory of the tumultuous early years of this new century have to account for?

Connect with poetry like you have never before... The essence of life is experiencing it, and what better way is there to walk through someone else's life than through heartfelt poems?

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about

For the past eighty years, the beautiful words of the Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran have graced everything from greeting cards and wedding invitations to inspirational wall hangings and corp

Kahlil Gibran's aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers.

One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time shares simple wisdom for living a happy and fulfilling life. This book is a collection of Gibran's words on how to live.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.

Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize — Poet Laureate of the United States — A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice — A New Yorker, Library Journal an