Poetry Public
Created and curated by Josh Simmons
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An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
5 stars
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian …
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5 stars
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for …
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4 stars
With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making …
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Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
3 stars
Nikita Gill shares a collection of poems crafted as the world went into lockdown, tackles themes such as mental health …
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Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
4 stars
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked …
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An anthology of poems by Kishwar Naheed on occasion of her 80th birthday. This is bilingual edition in English and …
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Morning haiku by Sonia Sanchez
3 stars
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: …
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4 stars
"Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth …
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Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
4 stars
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …
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The Biplane Houses by Les Murray
This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we …
