April is National Poetry Month, and the Acquisitions Department is celebrating in the best way we know how: with a list of recent arrivals. (If you can't get enough book lists, see our Black History Month 2021 and Women's History Month 2021 lists.)

There are over 200 books here—poems and poets across centuries, cultures, styles, and schools. You will find multi-author anthologies; single-author collections; revealing biographies and memoirs, including letters and journals; in-depth criticism, essays, and history; and a handful of epics newly translated. A selection from our Children's Library, including books for young adults, follows. 

Newly published poetry collections can be discovered in our Lobby and our large collection of poetry (and criticism) lives on Stack 9. We encourage you to slowly peruse the shelves—you never know what you might find. Additionally, the Lyn Chase Poetry Collection in the Whitridge Room—now temporarily restricted due to COVID—is an excellent browsing collection. You can read about Lyn Chase (trustee emerita) and the ways in which her outstanding generosity has enriched our poetry collection in this blog post.

ANTHOLOGIES

• 81 famous poems: an audio companion to the Norton anthology of poetry (audiobook download)
• 100 Poems to break your heart (ebook available) (Edward Hirsch, editor, don't miss Edward Hirsch's reading and lecture on April 21st)
• African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song (Kevin Young, editor)
• Firsts: 100 years of Yale younger poets (edited by Carl Phillips)
• Poems from Greek antiquity (edited by Paul Quarrie)
• Shadowed dreams: women's poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (edited and with an introduction by Maureen Honey)
• Smart devices: 52 poems from the Guardian 'poem of the week' (selected and reviewed by Carol Rumens)
• The Cubist poets in Paris: an anthology (edited by L.C. Breunig)
• The mind has cliffs of fall: poems at the extremes of feeling (edited by Robert Pinsky)
• The poetry of war: 1939-1945 (edited by Ian Hamilton)
• The poetry pharmacy: tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul (edited by William Sieghart)
• Together in a sudden strangeness: America's poets respond to the pandemic (edited by Alice Quinn)
• Villanelles (edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali)
• When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through: a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry (edited by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster)

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Ackmann, Martha - These fevered days: ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson
• Basbanes, Nicholas A. - Cross of snow: a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Bate, Jonathan - Radical Wordsworth: the poet who changed the world
• Berkson, Bill - A Frank O'Hara notebook (introduction by Ron Padgett, afterword by Constance M. Lewallen)
• Berryman, John - The selected letters of John Berryman
• Blanco, Richard - The prince of los Cocuyos: a Miami childhood (acclaimed memoir by Hispanic poet)
• Clark, Heather L. - Red comet: the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath (ebook available)
• Doherty, Maggie - The equivalents: a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s (ebook available) (featuring Anne Sexton & Maxine Kumin) 
• Doty, Mark. - What is the grass: Walt Whitman in my life
• Frost, Robert - Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3
• Ginsberg, Allen - The fall of America journals, 1965-1971
• Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (edited by David Stephen Calonne)
• Gioia, Dana - Studying with Miss Bishop: memoirs from a young writers life
• Giorno, John - Great demon kings: a memoir of poetry, sex, art, death, and enlightenment
• Griffin, Howard - Conversations with Auden
• Holladay, Hilary - The power of Adrienne Rich: a biography (ebook available)
• Hong, Cathy Park - Minor feelings: an Asian American reckoning (memoir in essays)
• Lehman, David - One hundred autobiographies: a memoir
• McDowell, Marta - Emily Dickinson's gardening life: the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
• McDowell, Nicholas - Poet of revolution: the making of John Milton
• Murphy, Peter T.  - The long public life of a short private poem: reading and remembering Thomas Wyatt
• Oppen, Mary - Meaning a life: an autobiography 
• Rollyson, Carl E. - The last days of Sylvia Plath
• Rosenblitt, J. Alison - The beauty of living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
• Snodgrass, W. D. - After-images: autobiographical sketches
• Travisano, Thomas J. - Love unknown: the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop (watch a recording of Mr. Travisano's NYSL lecture on Love Unknown)
• Trethewey, Natasha D. - Memorial Drive: a daughter's memoir (ebook and audiobook available)
• Warren, Rosanna - Max Jacob: a life in art and letters (see Jacob collection below)

COLLECTIONS

• Abdolmalekian, Garous - Lean against this late hour (translated from the Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey)
• Abdurraqib, Hanif - A fortune for your disaster: poems
• Adonis - Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks; first published in the early 1960s, key collection in the Arab modernist poetry movement )
• Armantrout, Rae - Conjure
• Atwood, Margaret - Dearly: new poems
• Awkward-Rich, Cameron - Dispatch: poems
• Belieu, Erin - Come-hither honeycomb: poems
• Bellerby, Frances - The first-known and other poems
• Berman, David - Actual air
• Betjeman, John - Harvest bells: new and uncollected poems
• Betts - Felon
• Bialosky, Jill - Asylum: a personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
• Blanco, Richard - How to love a country
• Blaser, Robin - The holy forest: collected poems of Robin Blaser (foreword by Robert Creeley; with a new afterword by Charles Bernstein)
• Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich - Selected poems (translated from the Russian by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France)
• Boland, Eavan - The historians: poems
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - Voices in the night: the prison poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (editor and translator, Edwin Robertson)
• Brown, Jericho - The tradition
• Burt, Stephanie - After Callimachus: poems
• Carr, Angela - Without ceremony
• Catullus - Catullus: the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (2018 translations by Roz Kaveney)
• Chang, Victoria - Obit
• Choi, Don Mee - DMZ colony
• Christle, Heather - The crying book
• Coleman, Wanda - Wicked enchantment: selected poems (edited & introduced by Terrance Hayes)
• Collins, Billy - Whale day: and other poems
• Conquest, Robert - Collected poems
• Cooley, Nicole - The afflicted girls
• Davison, Peter - The poems of Peter Davison, 1957-1995
• Denby, Edwin - The complete poems (edited and with an introduction by Ron Padgett, and with essays by Frank O'Hara and Lincoln Kirstein; photographs by Rudy Burckhardt)
• Derricotte, Toi - i: new and selected poems
• Dorantes, Dolores - Style = Estilo (translated by Jen Hofer)
• Du, Fu - The selected poems of Tu Fu (expanded and newly translated by David Hinton)
• Dumas, Henry - Knees of a natural man: the selected poetry of Henry Dumas (edited and with an introduction by Eugene B. Redmond)
• Dunn, Stephen - Keeper of limits: the Mrs. Cavendish poems
• Eliot, T. S. - The poems of T.S. Eliot read by Jeremy Irons (audiobook download)
• Ewing, Eve L. - 1919 (connected poems that explore the Chicago Race Riot of 1919)
• Fagles, Robert - I, Vincent: poems from the pictures of Van Gogh
• Farley, Paul - The mizzy
• Forché, Carolyn - In the lateness of the world
• Fried, Michael - To the center of the earth
• Gay, Ross - Be holding
• Gay, Ross - Catalog of unabashed gratitude
• Giménez Smith, Carmen - Be recorder: poems
• Giovanni, Nikki - Make me rain: poems & prose
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - West-eastern divan (translated from the German and annotated by Eric Ormsby)
• Goldbarth, Albert - To be read in 500 years: poems
• Graham, Jorie - Runaway: new poems
• Greenberg, Samuel - Poems from the Greenberg manuscripts (New Directions: edited by James Laughlin & Garrett Caples) ("the unknown poet Hart Crane plagiarized”)
• Hacker, Marilyn - Blazons: new and selected poems, 2000-2018
• Ḥafez - Beloved: 81 poems from Hafez (14th-century poetry translated by Mario Petrucci)
• Hahn, Kimiko - Brood
• Hanshan - The complete Cold Mountain: poems of the legendary hermit Hanshan (Tang dynasty (7th - 10th-century) Chinese poetry translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt)
• Hartley, Marsden - Selected Poems
• Hass, Robert - Summer snow: new poems
• Heller, Michael - Telescope: selected poems (New York Review Books)
• Herrera, Juan Felipe - Every day we get more illegal
• Heym, Georg - Poems (translated with an introduction and notes by Antony Hasler)
• Hirsch, Edward - Stranger by night: poems
• Howard, Richard - RH [loves] HJ and other American writers (New York Review Books)
• Howe, Fanny - Love and I: poems
• Huchel, Peter - These numbered days (translated from German by Martyn Crucefix)
• Hunt, Erica - Jump the clock: new & selected poems
• Jacob, Max - The selected poems of Max Jacob (edited and translated by William Kulik)
• Jacobsen, Josephine - Contents of a minute: last poems
• Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne - The age of Phillis (Phillis Wheatley-inspired collection)
• Jonas, Stephen - Arcana: a Stephen Jonas reader (1921–1970)
• Kaminsky, Ilya - Dancing in Odessa
• Kaminsky, Ilya - Deaf republic: poems
• Katz, David M. - In praise of Manhattan
• Kaufman, Bob - Collected poems
• Kenny, Maurice - Only as far as Brooklyn
• Kenyon, Jane - The best poems of Jane Kenyon (selected by Donald Hall)
• Kingsolver, Barbara - How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons): poetry
• Kooser, Ted - Red stilts: poems
• Kunial, Zaffar - Us
• Layton, Irving - The darkening fire: selected poems 1945-1968
• Lowell, Robert - The dolphin: two versions, 1972-1973
• Major, Clarence - The essential Clarence Major: prose & poetry
• Malroux, Claire - Daybreak: new and selected poems (translated from the French and with an introduction by Marilyn Hacker; New York Review Books)
• Mandelʹshtam, Osip - Concert at a railway station: a selection of poems (2018 translation by Alistair Noon)
• Martin, Dawn Lundy - Good stock strange blood
• Mathews, Harry - Collected poems: 1946-2016
• Mayer, Bernadette - A Bernadette Mayer reader
• McHugh, Heather - Feeler
• Mew, Charlotte Mary - Selected poetry and prose
• Mickiewicz, Adam - Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855: selected poems
• Molloy, Dorothy - The poems of Dorothy Molloy
• Momaday, N. Scott - The death of sitting bear: new and selected poems
• Monroe, Melissa. - Medusa Beach: and other poems (New York Review Books)
• Morgan, Edwin - Centenary: selected poems
• Moten, Fred - All that beauty
• Muldoon, Paul - Frolic and detour
• Murray, Les A. - The best 100 poems of Les Murray
• Oates, Joyce Carol - American melancholy: poems
• O'Hara, Frank - In memory of my feelings: a selection of poems (edited by Bill Berkson)
• Olds, Sharon - Arias
• Oswald, Alice - Nobody
• Parker, Morgan - Magical negro: poems
• Pascoli, Giovanni - Selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli (translated by Taije Silverman with Marina Della Putta Johnston)
• Perdomo, Willie - The crazy bunch (watch a recording of Mr. Perdomo's NYSL reading from The Crazy Bunch)
• Pessoa, Fernando - The complete works of Alberto Caeiro (edited by Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari)
• Phillips, Carl - Wild is the wind
• Pico, Tommy - Feed
• Piercy, Marge - On the way out, turn off the light: poems
• Plomer, William - Collected poems
• Prikryl, Jana. - No matter: poems
• Prince, F. T.  - The doors of stone: poems, 1938-1962
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - Selected poetry (translated by Antony Wood)
• Riley, Denise - Selected poems: 1976-2016
• Rilke, Rainer Maria - The Voices & other poems (Kristofor Minta, translator) 
• Rilke, Rainer Maria - Poems to night (translated by Will Stone)
• Roberts, Michael - Michael Roberts: selected poems and prose
• Robertson, Robin - Grimoire: new Scottish folk tales  (retold in verse, with an introduction by Val McDermid)
• Rosenberg, Isaac - The collected poems of Isaac Rosenberg (foreword by Siegfried Sassoon)
• Ruefle, Mary - Dunce
• Sadoff, Ira - Country, living: a collection of poems
• Sanders, Ed - Thirsting for peace in a raging century: selected poems, 1961-1985
• Scotellaro, Rocco - The dawn is always new: selected poetry of Rocco Scotellaro (translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann)
• Seidel, Frederick - Frederick Seidel selected poems
• Shakespeare, William - All the sonnets of Shakespeare (edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells; presents material in what is now thought to be the chronological order in which they were written; also prologues, epilogues, dialogues, and monologues that Shakespeare wrote in sonnet form) 
• Shapiro, Alan - Covenant
• Shaughnessy, Brenda - The octopus museum: poems
• Siddall, Elizabeth - My ladys soul: the poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
• Simic, Charles - Dismantling the silence
• Smith, Danez - Homie: poems
• Solie, Karen - The Caiplie Caves
• Stern, Gerald - The preacher: a poem
• Stevenson, Anne - Completing the circle
• Stevenson, Anne - Correspondences: a family history in letters
• Stone, Ruth - The essential Ruth Stone
• Sullivan, Hannah - Three poems
• Sze, Arthur - Sight lines
• Tate, James - Lost river
• Taylor, Henry - This tilted world is where I live: new and selected poems, 1962-2020
• Tomlinson, Charles - Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems
• Valéry, Paul - The idea of perfection: the poetry and prose of Paul Valéry (translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody)
• Wade, Sidney - Deep gossip: new and selected poems
• Warren, Rosanna - So forth: poems
• Wharton, Edith - Selected poems of Edith Wharton
• Wicomb, Zoë - Still life
• Wilner, Eleanor - Before our eyes: new and selected poems, 1975-2017
• Wiman, Christian - Survival is a style
• Wright, Charles - Oblivion banjo: the poetry of Charles Wright
• Wright, Charles - The wrong end of the rainbow: poems
• Zapruder, Matthew - Father's day
• Zhadan, Serhiy - What we live for, what we die for: selected poems (translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps)

CRITICISM, ESSAYS, HISTORY

• Bloom, Harold - Take arms against a sea of troubles: the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death
• Burnside, John - The music of time: poetry in the twentieth century
• Carey, John - A little history of poetry
• Duncan, Robert - Collected essays and other prose
• Hetherington, Paul -  Prose poetry: an introduction
• Hinton, David  - Awakened cosmos: the mind of classical Chinese poetry
• Hull, Akasha Gloria - Color, sex, & poetry: three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson)
• Nicholson, Catherine - Reading and not reading the Faerie Queene: Spenser and the making of literary criticism
• Owens, Susan - Spirit of place: artists, writers and the British landscape
• Paterson, Don  - The poem: lyric, sign, metre
• Sandler, Matt - The Black romantic revolution: abolitionist poets at the end of slavery
• Villani, Cédric - Mathematics is the poetry of science (translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)
• Whitman, Walt - Every hour, every atom : a collection of Walt Whitman's early notebooks & fragments (edited by Zachary Turpin and Matt Miller)

EPICS

• Headley, Maria Dahvana - Beowulf (a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley)
• Karthika Nair - Until the lions: echoes from the Mahabharata
• Virgil - The Aeneid (translated by Shadi Bartsch)
• The book of Taliesin: poems of warfare and praise in an enchanted Britain (translated by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams)

CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT

• Alexander, Kwame - The Undefeated
• Bauer, Marion Dane - The Stuff of Stars
• Brown, Skila - Clackety Track: poems about trains
• Elliott, Zetta - A Place Inside of Me
• Hopkins, Lee Bennett - Construction People
• Latham, Irene - This Poem is a Nest
• Macfarlane, Robert - The Lost Words: a spell book
• Madan, Vikram - A Hatful of Dragons
• Nye, Naomi Shihab - Everything Comes Next: collected and new poems
• Prelutsky, Jack - Hard-boiled Bugs for Breakfast and other tasty poems
• Sidman, Joyce - Hello Earth! Poems to our Planet
• Steinglass, Elizabeth - Soccerverse: poems about soccer
• Wright, Richard - Seeing into Tomorrow: haiku by Richard Wright

Novels-in-verse and Memoirs-in-verse

• Acevedo, Elizabeth - Clap When You Land (ebook and audiobook available)
• Alexander, Kwame - Crossover (graphic novel)
• Andersen, Laurie Halse - Shout: a poetry memoir
• Atta, Dean - Black Flamingo (audiobook available)
• Elliott, David - Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
• Grimes, Nikki - Ordinary Hazards: a memoir
• Hagan, Ellen - Reckless, Glorious, Girl
• Iloh, Candace - Every Body Looking
• McCullough, Joy - Blood Water Paint (ebook available)
• Warga, Jasmine - Other Words for Home
• Woodson, Jacqueline - Before the Ever After (ebook and audiobook available)
• Ziboi, Ibi and Salaam, Yusef - Punching the Air (ebook available)