From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

The book burns with hate, love, self-loathing and anger. Plath wandered down among the roots of poetry, illuminating it - and then became her own fuel. 4 POET IN NEW YORK Federico Garcia Lorca ...

Contemporary poetry books ‘Hard Damage’ by Aria Aber. $18 now 22% off. $14 Photo: The Strategist; Photo: Retailer “I’m hard-pressed to think of a single collection of poetry from the last ...

MID-CENTURY AMERICAN POETS (300 pp )—Edited by John Ciardi—Tv/ayne ($4). Anthologist Ciardi, a Harvard professor and minor poet, 33, asked 15 “younger poets” (several are in their 403) to ...

Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar is hosting a book launch event on 28 and 29 March, 2012 to celebrate the publication of Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry.

Strand was also asked about the influence poetry has on politics. “Poetry hasn’t done much to influence political behavior, certainly not recently,” Strand said. In a discussion of the merit of ...

Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows ...

The Catholic Book Club passed another happy milestone this past fall, when our Facebook discussion group gained its 4,000th member (our weekly Catholic Book Club newsletter has also grown, and now ...

Kwame Alexander joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'This Is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets'.