Poetry Public
Created and curated by Josh Simmons
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An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
5 stars
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian …
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Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for …
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With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making …
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
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Milk and Honey (stylized in all lowercase as "milk and honey") is an Indian-Canadian collection of both abstract fiction and …
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Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked …
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Salt in Wounds by Kishwar Naheed
An anthology of poems by Kishwar Naheed on occasion of her 80th birthday. This is bilingual edition in English and …
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Morning haiku by Sonia Sanchez
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: …
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4 stars
"Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth …
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Bright dead things by Ada Limón
"Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you …
