National Poetry Month

The Pura Belpré Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find fam...

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Illustrated by Evan Robertson! Walt Whitman's visionary manifesto, visually reimagined.  Carefully culled to about o...

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award - Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer...

*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist* In Stay Dead, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and ...

LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who ...

TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages-interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical - constricting the l...

From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about l...

New and Selected Poems Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the mos...

An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations What does a life look like on the other...

*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist* The New Economy memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungen...

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an awar...

On Basketball and Ascension LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD -...

An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black ...

Music! Music! Oh, how grand! A language we all understand.Get swept away by the musical performance of a lifetime as, one by one, each instrument o...

Based on the touching song "This Pretty Planet" by Tom Chapin and John Forster, this hopeful and whimsically illustrated picture book celebrates th...

A Book of Days Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year: 365 ...

An enchanting new instalment in Carol Ann Duffy's Christmas poem series, complete with gorgeous illustrations. It was the twelfth night of the wint...

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Illustrated by Evan Robertson! Henry David Thoreau dropped the gauntlet with Walden in 1854, and it is more rel...

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Awards in Young People's Literature From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an e...

Women's Voices from Mexico Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, gro...

A Ceremony for Grief A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's poem "Washing My Mother's Body," which offers a way through gri...

A Liturgy for the Midwest Water the Bones is a ceremony in the wasteland; a sacred libation of holy water poured out of the dry midwestern soil. I...

Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel...

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - moth...