more books!

A few more books for your list, current, recent, and otherwise:

• Cave Canem – National Poetry Month: Staff Book Picks
• Electric Lit – 8 Poetry Collections on Blackness
• Five Books – recommendations for the best poetry books to read for both study and pleasure
• The Jewish News of Northern California – New Jewish poetry books to accompany you through isolation
• Kundiman – 20 Books to Read for Pride

Happy reading!

more books!

More recommendations for your poetry shelf:

• Book Riot – Poetry Books for Beginners, Haters, or the Utterly Confused
• Book Riot again – 8 Poetry Collections and Verse Novels to Get You Into Poetry
• Financial Times – Summer books of 2020: Poetry
• The Guardian – Four new collections up for the Forward poetry prizes
• Medium – 12 Formally Innovative Books by Contemporary Poets of Color
• The Millions – Must-Read Poetry: July 2020
• The Oprah Magazine – All the LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape in 2020 (includes 6 poetry titles)

Happy reading!

more to read!

June is National Indigenous History Month and CBC invites you to celebrate by reading from their list of books by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors. Among the 35 titles, many are, or include, poetry.

more to read

Here are more recommendations for your poetry shelf:

• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup
• Kenyon Review – Poets on Poets: Celebrating New Collections (4 parts)
• The Millions – Must-Read Poetry: June 2020
• The New York Times – New & Noteworthy Poetry, From ‘White Blood’ to the Book of Job
• Publishers Weekly – An Antiracist Poetry Reading List

Good reading to you.

more to read…

More recommendations for worthwhile poetry:

• Epic Reads – 28 Poetry Books Guaranteed to Take Your Breath Away
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry collections (May)
• Library Journal – Finding Self/Finding Home | Top Spring Poetry
• Poetry Books Society – Spring Selections 2020
• Poetry Foundation – Reading List: May 2020
• Small Press Distribution – SPD Poetry Bestsellers
• Time – 45 New Books You Need to Read This Summer (one poetry book, several poet authors)

If you have a recent-book recommendation that isn’t showing up on these (or other recent) lists, please share in Comments!

more to read!

The poetry book recommendations just keep rolling in. Here’s another batch:

• Academy of American Poets
• BookPage
• BuzzFeed
• The Millions, April
• The Millions, May
• Ms.
• Read It Forward
• She Reads

Happy reading!

noteworthy

If, in your weeks of isolation, you’ve managed to burn through the poetry books on your shelves, here are more, from various reliable sources:

• Bustle: National Poetry Month required reading
• CBC: 29 works of Canadian poetry
• The Guardian: the best recent poetry
• League of Canadian Poets: The Many Gendered Other Reading List
• The New York Times: new this week

Happy reading!