National Poetry Month 2021

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV -- everywhere, all the time.

In his debut book of poetry, Vijay Seshadri blends history and nature to imagine spaces where forests are filled with speeding traffic, refugees, and office high rises.

A prize-winning collection of poems of travel, music, region, and affection for land, culture, and people.

In a series of poems Bukong Tuon blends three different stories of first time travelers who have their fatherhood in common.

From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice.

Former UK poet laureate and eminent 20th century poet and writer John Masefield's work is collected in this comprehensive volume.

"This poetry collection explores life along the Texas-Mexico border through intimate portraits and familiar legends, creating a compendium of Chicanx identity in all its complexity. The poems span transnational spaces, memories of place, and family. It manifests both personal and political life by celebrating the borderlands as a site of traditions and creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

This bilingual collection of Octavio Paz' poems showcases a deep passion and concern for the use of language.

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew.

In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another.