INDIGENOUS POETRY
The Crooked Good
Holy Wild, by Gwen Benaway 🏳️⚧️
The Pemmican Eaters
North End Love Songs
Witness, I Am
Bones
This Wound is a World
NDN Coping Mechanisms
River Woman
Injun
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
In the Dog House
Totem Poles & Railroads
A Really Good Brown Girl
Songs of Eskasoni
Not Vanishing by Chrystos
When My Brother Was an Aztec (USA)
2SLGBTQIA+ POETRY
I Don’t Write About Race (USA & mixed-Chinese/Trans woman)
A Place Called No Homeland (CAN Trans woman)
Even This Page is White (CAN Trans woman)
Good Arabs (CAN Queer Arab)
Holy Wild, by Gwen Benaway 🏳️⚧️
transVersing (CAN Trans anthology)
Sympathetic Little Monster, by Cameron Awkward-Rich (USA Trans man)
Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
M X T; Lemonhound, by Sina Queyras (CAN Lesbian)
Otter, by Ben Ladouceur (CAN Queer)
Precordial Thump (CAN Queer)
Bone, by Yrsa Daley-Ward (USA)
Junk, by Tommy Pico (USA Queer)
When I Grow Up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities (USA Queer)
Homie | Don’t Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith (USA Queer)
Prelude to a Bruise by Saeed Jones (USA Queer)
Lord of the Butterflies, by Andrea Gibson (USA non-binary)
If They Come For Us, by Fatimah Asghar (USA Queer)
Diving into the Wreck, by Adrienne Rich (USA)
I Must Be Living twice: New and Selected Poems, by Eileen Myles (USA
BLACK POWER POETRY
Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman
Zong! By M. NourbeSe Philip (CAN)
Citizen: An American Lyric
Burning Sugar
Brown
The Gospel of Breaking
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
Helium
Fuchsia
There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Dated Emcees
Registers of Illuminated Villages
Native Guard
For Colored Girls who have Considred Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf
Felon
Head Off & Split
Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair
Life Power Soul
When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Finna
The Tradition
A Fortune for Your Disaster
How to Be Drawn
Magical Negro
The BreakBeat Poets Volumes 1 and 2
CANONICALLY CANADIAN
Coke Machine Glow, by Gordon Downie
Why ?haped Scars, by John Wing Jr.
The Essential P.K. Page, selected by Arlene Lampert and Thea Gray
Memories Have Tongue, by Afua Cooper
Al purdy: selected poems 1962-1996
The Cinnamon Peeler, by Michael Ondaatje
The Alphabet Game, a bp Nichol reader
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume Two: the later years
Land To Light On, by Dionne Brand
Thirsty, by Dionne Brand
Dearly: poems, by Margaret Atwood
Ardour, by Nicole Brossard, translated by Angela Carr (Quebec)
Eunoia, by Christian Bӧk
Whylah Falls and Execution Poems, by George Elliot Clarke
In Your Crib, by Austin Clarke
Queen Rat, by Lynn Crosbie
Old Hat, by Rob Winger
INSTAPOETRY
Love Her Wild, by Atticus
Sea of Strangers and Love & Misadventure, by Lang Leav
inward , by yung pueblo
The mermaid’s voice returns in this one and the witch doesn’t burn in this one, by amanda lovelace
Whiskey words & a shovel I, by r.h. Sin
Pillow Thoughts, by Courtney Peppernell
Bone, by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Milk & Honey, by Rupi kaur (CAN)
Homebody, by Rupi kaur (CAN)
The Sun and Her Flowers, by Rupi kaur (CAN)
I Have to Live, by aisha sasha John (CAN)
wild embers: poems of rebellion fire and beauty, by Nikita Gill
Adotolescence, by gabbie hanna
Yesterday i was the moon, by noor unnahar (Pakistan)
Mouthful of Forevers, by Clementine von Radics (Tumbler)
NOT NORTH AMERICAN
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone, by Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)
Adonis: selected poems (Syria)
Anna Akhmatova: poems (Russia)
Faces of Love and the Poets of Shiraz (Iran)
Language for a New Century: contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Ed. Tina Chang et. al. (Asia)
Comfort Food, by Ellen Van Neerven (Aboriginal Australian)
Love Poems and Death Threats, by Samual Wagan Watson (Aboriginal Australian)
Sunset, by Maggie Walsh (Aboriginal Australian)
Eelahroo (Long Ago), Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future), by Lionel G. Fogarty (Aboriginal Australian)
Yesterday i was the moon, by noor unnahar (Pakistan)
Classic Haiku (Japan)
100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda (Spain)
POEMS OF EXILE, MIGRATION & 2ND GENERATION
The Lives of Rain, by Nathalie Handal (Palestine/USA)
Dance, Dance Revolution: poems, by Cathy Park Hong (USA/South Korea)
Not My White Savior, bu Julayne Lee (USA/South Korea)
Calling a Wolf a Wolf, by Kaveh Akbar (Iran)
Port of being, by Shazia Hafiz Ramji (Canada)
BEEN AROUND
Maya Angelou: Poems
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery
The Rain in Portugal, by Billy Collins
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Witman
The Yeats Reader
The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück
Survival, by Margaret Atwood
Selected Poems, by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Best of It, by Kay Ryan
Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith
The Complete Poems of anne sexton
Space, in Chains, by Laura Kasischke
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
The People Look Like Flowers At Last, Charles Bukowski
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
NEXT-GEN CANADIAN
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, by Linda Besner
Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir
Waiting Room, by Jennifer Zilm
Light, by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Failure to Thrive, by Suzannah Showler
Could You Please Stop Singing? By Sabyasachi Nag
The Invisibility Exhibit, by Sachiko Murakami
Operations, by Moez Surani
Don’t Be Interesting, by Jacob McArthur Mooney
We are no longer the smart kids in class, by David Huebert
Personals, by Ian Williams
For Your Safety Please Hold On, by Kayla Czaga
Tell: poems for a girlhood, by Soraya Peerbaye
Masham Means Evening, by Kanina Dawson
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, by Liz Howard
Hacker Packer, by Cassidy McFadzean
Class Clown, by Pino Coluccio
A Pillow Book, by Suzanne Buffam
Stereoblind, by emma healey
How She Read, by Chantal Gibson
Listen Before Transmit, Dani Couture
Where The Words End and My Body Begins, by Amber Dawn
East and West, by Laura Ritland
Li’l Bastard, by David McGimpsey
Subway Stations of the Cross, by Ins Choi
None of This Belongs To Me, by Ellie Sawatsky
ANTHOLOGIES
Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, Eds. Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson
Resistance: Righteous rage in the age of #meetoo, Ed. Sue Goyette
Beauty is a Verb, Eds. Jennifer Bartlett et. al.
Language for a New Century: contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Ed. Tina Chang et. al.
Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
The Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 2
Poetry of the World Wars, Ed. Michael Foss
The Portable Beat Reader, Ed. Ann Charters
Canadian Poetry from World War 1, Ed. Joel Baetz
Prismatic Publics
The FSG book of twentieth-century Latin American poetry : an anthology 861.6
FRESH FACES
Motherland, Fatherland Homelandsexuals, by Patricia Lockwood
In the Pocketsof Small Gods, by Anis Mojgani
No planets strike, by josh bell
Racing Hummingbirds, by Jeanann Verlee
New American Best Friend and Life of the Party, by Olivia Gatwood
Not Here and This Way to the Sugar, by Hieu Minh Nguyen
Soft Science, by Franny Choi
Depression & Other Magic Tricks, by Sabrina Benaim
If My Body Could Speak, by Blythe Baird
Virgin, by Analicia Sotelo
The Only Worlds We Know, by Michael Lee