With National Poetry Month drawing to a close, the book recommendations are still pouring in. Here’s the latest list: ABC News – Leila Mottley picks 10 books to read this National Poetry Month The Bay Area Reporter – National Poetry Month LGBTQ reading list Electric Lit – 7 Poetry Collections that Transform the Personal Into Portals Electric Lit – 15 New and Forthcoming Poetry Collections You Should Be Reading The New York Times – 4 Books to Make You Fall in Love With Poetry Pulitzer.org – Four Classic Pulitzer-Winning Poets to Read During National Poetry Month The Week – 6 queer poets to re ..read more

Saturday, April 27, 2024, is Independent Bookstore Day. In addition to authors, live music, edibles, kids events, art tables, readings, contests, and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can get only on that day. There’s a map of participating booksellers on IndieBound and the website of your favorite local independent bookstore will probably have a listing of visiting authors and other scheduled events. Note: some bookstores offer special discounts for National Poetry Month, so Saturday would be a great day to refresh your poetry shelf ..read more

The League of Canadian Poets has just announced the longlists for the three annual awards: Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and Raymond Souster Award. Twelve books of poetry published in 2023 are included on each list. Award shortlists will be announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. An online reading will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, to celebrate the shortlisted poets ..read more

The days are stretching longer, the temperature is edging upward, but there’s always time for more poetry books! Here is the latest batch of recommendations: Bandcamp – The Best Sound Poetry on Bandcamp, December/January 2024 California Review of Books – From Acre to Zagjewski: 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2023 EIN Presswire – Five Poetry Collections Unravels the Diverse Facets of Life and Human Experience The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup Literary Hub – Seven Unexpectedly Intimate Poetry Books to Read in March NPR – 3 collections take the poetic measure of America i ..read more

Here’s a fresh list of poetry books that are making big impressions on readers: Electric Lit – 7 Poetry Collections About the Complexities of Black Womanhood The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup Literary Hub – Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February The Millions – Must-Read Poetry: Winter 2024 read poetry – 5 February 2024 Releases That Will Make You Fall Deeper in Love with Poetry The Week – Kwame Alexander’s 6 must-read books about the art of poetry Happy reading ..read more

New year, new poetry books! Well, actually a few of these are recommendations left over from December, but we wouldn’t want your list to languish… The Guardian – The best recent poetry – December review roundup The Guardian – The best recent poetry – January review roundup Literary Hub – 7 New Poetry Collections to Read in December Literary Hub – Here Are the Poetry Books to Read in 2024 The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint – 7 Black Poets Every Student Should Read she reads – Most Anticipated Poetry of 2024 ..read more

John Morgan, who divides his time between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Bellingham, Washington, will once again enliven the Village Books Readings Gallery as he reads from his new book, The Hungers of the World. The poems are based on a journal that Morgan kept during his residency at Denali National Park in June, 2009, and the collection was published in 2023 by Salmon Poetry. Please join John Morgan at 6:00pm this evening, Monday, January 8, 2024, at Village Books ..read more

In case your holiday haul didn’t include enough poetry books, here’s another roundup of titles considered “best of” for 2023: Book Riot – 12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023 CBC – The best Canadian poetry of 2023 Heavy Feather Review – “Cheers to the Weirdos! Part Deux”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Favorites List for 2023 Library Journal – Best Poetry of 2023 little infinite – Top Romantic Poetry Books from 2023 Miramichi Reader – Here are the titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Poetry Collections” of 2023, in no particular order newsroom – Xmas: the best poet ..read more

All year long, journalists have offered their recommendations for the best new poetry books and we’ve posted a regular stream of what to read now lists. Now it gets serious. Critics, reviewers, pundits of all stripes, get to weigh in on which books they think are the best of the year. So here is the first batch of 2023 best-of titles: Derek Beaulieu – most engaging books of 2023 Electric Lit – Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023 Financial Times – Best books of 2023 — Poetry The Guardian – Kate Kellaway’s best poetry books of 2023 The Guardian – Best poetry books of 2023 Irish Inde ..read more

It has been a busy and productive year for poets in the Cascadia region. Whether you’re updating your own collection or looking for holiday (or other) gifts, why not start with local poets? The following list is indeed ambitious, but does not purport to be complete. We apologize to those Cascadia poets whose 2023 poetry books we’ve somehow missed and invite you to leave a Comment with your name, book title, and publisher, for an update later in the month. The list includes poetry books actually published in 2023. (If you missed the 2022 list, it’s here, here, and here.) The poets are listed a ..read more