In honor of National Poetry Month, here are some beautiful poetry collections that you would fall in love with. I hope they’ll awaken and inspire you too. Throughout my reading career, I have read ...

John Liles. Yale Univ., Mar. 25 ($45, ISBN 978-0-300-27941-2) Science, the natural world, and the threat of climate change animate this debut from the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

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As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations about Black American identity and experience. Brad Walrond’s Every Where Alien and Cheryl Clarke‘s Archive of Style: New and Selected ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are crafting literary works that boldly reflect the fullness of Black queer life ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...