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• Howl :

  and Other Poems

  Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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  57 pages. Originally published by City Light Books in SF. "The apocalyptic 'Howl' became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956..."

• The Year of Blue Water

  Yanyi (poet),

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  78 pages. "Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective."

• Something About Living

  Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf,

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  81 pages. Social criticism on imperialism. "In these poems Khalaf Tuffaha reminds us that love isn't an idea; it is a radical act." (Also available as ebook.)

• Spectral Evidence

  Poems

  Pardlo, Gregory,

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  101 pages. Social criticism on anti-Blackness. "Spectral Evidence forces us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art, about the criminalization and death of Black lives, about justice and how these have been inscribed into our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Snow

  Okpik, Dg Nanouk,

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  79 pages. Indigenous North American author. "...Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures.

• Or, on Being the Other Woman

  White, Simone, 1972-

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  67 pages. A book length poem on Black Feminism. " White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal narrative, and critical theory in order to attest to the narrative complexities of writing and living as a Black woman and artist."

• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973,

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  60 pages. Bilingual edition. Internationally recognized Chilean poet. "First published in 1924, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada remains among Neruda's most popular work."

• Night Sky With Exit Wounds

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  89 pages. Highly respected contemporary writer known for his poetic novels like "Mother is a Time." (also available as ebook and audiobook).

• Blood Orange

  Yaffa AS,

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  56 pages. "Blood Orange is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian."

• Heed the Hollow

  Poems

  Tariq, Malcolm,

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  111 pages. Cave Canem poet. on black queer life in the American South.

• Roughly for the North

  Ojanen, Carrie Ayaġaduk,

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  67 pages. Indigenous North American writer. "Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an act of devotion and love to one’s family and land."

• The Most Foreign Country

  Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972,

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  39 pages. Poetry of Latin America in translation. "Pizarnik's earliest poems teem with an exuberant desire 'to grab hold of everything' and to create a language that tests the limits of origin, paradox, and death."

• Daughters of Harriet

  Poems

  Parker-Ohene, Cynthia,

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  66 pages. Inspired by Harriet Tubman.

• Crossing the Water

  Transitional Poems

  Plath, Sylvia

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  56 pages. also available as ebook. published posthumously as a bridge between her earlier style and her more vulnerable writing style that is seen in her better known work "Ariel."

• Anaphora

  Goodan, Kevin, 1969-

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  69 pages. "Goodan creates a heightened, frantic and piercing dialogue that grapples with mental illness, stigmas, relationships, and morality in the landscape of rural America." (Also available as ebook.)

• Blue Horses

  Poems

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  79 pages. Nature poems that remind you to slow down and connect.

• Suddenly We

  Shockley, Evie, 1965-

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  106 pages. audiobook available. "How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other?"

• Phenomenal Woman

  Four Poems Celebrating Women

  Angelou, Maya

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  only 22 pages! Take this one up when you're having a hard time getting through denser reads.

• Survival Takes a Wild Imagination

  Poems

  Róisín, Fariha,

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  101 pages. Bangladeshi American writer. "...Goodan creates a heightened, frantic and piercing dialogue that grapples with mental illness, stigmas, relationships, and morality in the landscape of rural America." (Also available as ebook.)

• Nothing Follows

  Duong, Lan P., 1972-

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  85 pages. "Memoiric poetry documenting a Vietnamese family's arrival in America."