Poetry Public
Created and curated by Josh Simmons
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Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems …
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The complete poems of Cavafy (i.e. K. P. Kabaphēs) by Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs (A Harvest book)
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God's trombones by James Weldon Johnson (Penguin classics)
5 stars
The inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson.
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one …
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
4 stars
A collection of brilliant and intense poems, in the handwritten and typed version, by the rapper Tupac Shakur.
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You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
5 stars
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection.
The poems range …
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Gardening secrets of the dead by Lee Herrick
Memory, history, family, the future: these are the preoccupations of Lee Herrick's Gardening Secrets of the Dead.
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"A collection of haiku and drawings by that hack Jon Kudelka." A collection of 35 illustrated haiku. Saddle stitched, A6.
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Scar and Flower by Lee Herrick
These poems, alternately gritty and transcendent, find the spirit in our stark, hardscrabble lives."This is an incredible, luminous and most …
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni
When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took …
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In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of …
