Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft—#npm17

We’ve compiled a list of some gorgeous books of poetry to read while you celebrate this month.

The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life.

The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
The Rain in Portugal—a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death.

Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka
Map to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era.

Felicity by Mary Oliver
The most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. 

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.

Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath
A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath’s poems, from “Lady Lazarus” to “Daddy,” have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry.

Special Feature:

Eat This Poem by Nicole Gulotta
A literary cookbook that celebrates food and poetry, two of life’s essential ingredients.
In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twenty-five inspiring poems in this book—from such poets as Marge Piercy, Louise Glück, Mark Strand, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield—are accompanied by seventy-five recipes that bring the richness of words to life in our kitchen, on our plate, and through our palate. Eat This Poem opens us up to fresh ways of accessing poetry and lends new meaning to the foods we cook.

 

There are also lots of great Poetry Month promotions to indulge in!

Since its founding in 1915, Knopf has prided itself on publishing some of the finest poets of our time. And for more than twenty years, the imprint has celebrated National Poetry Month by sending out a free poem every day throughout April.

Click here to sign up and receive your free poem-a-day in April, plus occasional news about their award-winning poets.

Celebrate and download the free Writer’s Guide to Poetry brought to you by @SignatureReads and @aaknopf.
Click here to download the free guide.

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