Poetry is Not a Luxury Reading List
Michelle Everette recommends collections that purposefully and beautifully blend the personal and the political
From A Land Where Other People Live by Audre Lorde
Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi
Homie by Danez Smith
Thrown in the Throat* by Benjamin Garcia
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy by Wyatt Welch
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Rich
American Dream* by Sapphire
*Content warning: A few poems in the collection mention or process sexual abuse.
$15.95
ISBN: 9781574232462
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Published: Black Sparrow Press - March 23rd, 2021
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ISBN: 9781642596960
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Published: Haymarket Books - May 31st, 2022
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450109
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Published: Graywolf Press - January 21st, 2020
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571315212
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 11th, 2020
$17.00
ISBN: 9781556594861
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 2nd, 2019
$18.00
ISBN: 9781953447586
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Published: Flowersong Press - August 8th, 2022
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393314861
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 17th, 1996
$24.00
ISBN: 9780593300237
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Published: Penguin Press - April 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780393346015
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 1st, 2013
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ISBN: 9780679767992
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Published: Vintage - June 18th, 1996