W. Peter Flaig Library

Hot Poetry Reads

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BullSEE THE STORY OF THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! B...

CitizenA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American...

Citizen Illegal“Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the pe...

The Collected Poems of Thomas MertonIn 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton’s first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis ...

A Collection of NightmaresHold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from open eyes and endless insomnia. ...

Corona ObscuraSonnets like you’ve never experienced before! Condensed… Expanded … Exploded. Leading you deeper and deeper into a never-ending circle of...

The Devil's DreamlandWinner of the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. H.H. Holmes committed ghastly crimes in the late 19th century. ...

DevotionsPulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than f...

Don't Call Us DeadAward-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call...

The DoorThe Door, Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These...

Electric ArchesElectric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending s...

Fast AnimalThis collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like...

Field Guide to the End of the WorldField Guide to the End of the World, winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, delivers a whimsical look at our culture’s obsession with...

For Every OneOriginally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dea...

For The BrokenFor The Broken is an exquisite collection of poetry divided into four chapters. Each chapter serves a different purpose. The chapters are...

Ghost OfGhost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across t...

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I Could Chew on This (Animal Lovers book, Gift book, Humor poetry)A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee...

I Could Pee on ThisCat lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds ...

I Could Pee on This, TooThere's a new cat in town! This feisty sibling of the international bestseller I Could Pee on This will be making its own sensational mar...

If They Come for UsPoet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contempor...

I Just Hope It's LethalThe teenage years are a time filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. Sometimes it feels that every day bri...

Ink Knows No BordersA poetry collection for young adults brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of t...

Live My Lief Remix (2017 Revisions)Steve Roggenbuck is perhaps most famous for his YouTube videos. Many of these YouTube videos are similar to poetry and describe his appre...

Look*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award**Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award*Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks ...

Mess and Mess andPoetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding...

The New Oxford Book of War PoetryThere can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and ce...

Night of the RepublicAn urgent and timely collection by one of America’s most inventive and accessible poetsIn Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on...

Our Numbered DaysIn 2013, Neil Hilborn’s performance of his poem “OCD” went viral. To date, it has been watched over 10 million times. Our Numbered Days i...

Paint Me Like I AmToday my name is colorful.Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. Th...

Poetry 101Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of s...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am with CDPoetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive in-find the p...

The Poet XA young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut no...

The Portable Beat ReaderBeginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude...

The Selected Poems of Wendell BerryThe Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been...

ShoutA searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson! Bestselling au...

Skin, Inc. The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick RoomNaturally, ...

Small SpiritsA collection of poetry dark and light about dolls from many countries --mystical, ghostly, dolls of legends, memories. Fully illustrated ...

Turn Me LooseAround the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both befor...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairWhen it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a gene...

Wade in the Water Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The extraordinary new poetry ...

War DancesAl centro dei racconti e delle poesie di Danze di guerra ci sono uomini che, di fronte a una scelta che cambierà le loro vite, cercano la...

What I've Stolen, What I've EarnedPoetry. Native American Studies. "One of the major lyric voices of our time" (NY Times Book Review), winner of the National Book Award, A...

WhereasIncisively capturing the oddities of our logic and the whimsies of our reason, the poems in Whereas show there is always another side to ...

Where the Sidewalk EndsWhere the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! Celebrate with this anniversary edition that features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. Thi...

White RoseA gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenged the Nazi regime...

Words That KillWords That Kill is a collection of poetry about one's breaking point. Themes included are depression, anxiety, abuse, body dysmorphic dis...

Writing and Enjoying HaikuWriting and Enjoying Haiku shows how haiku can bring a centered, calming atmosphere into one's life, by focusing on the outer realities o...

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