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• Voices of Tacoma

  a Gathering of Poets

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  Includes the work of former Tacoma Poet Laureates, school teachers, well-known poets, first-time-published poets, and illustrated by the artwork of Tacoma artist Mauricio Robalino.

• A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology

  at the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers

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  Features compositions by 54 poets ranging from elementary school age to adult—most from the Muckleshoot Tribal School,

• Poetry

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  For more than 110 years, Poetry magazine has been a monthly gathering space for poets and readers.

• The Best American Poetry 2024

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  Guest editor Mary Jo Salter has picked 75 poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today.

• The Lantern and the Night Moths

  灯与夜蛾 : Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets

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  Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China's most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming, Qiu Jin, Zhang Qiaohui, Xiao Xi, and Dai Wangshu.

• Raised by Wolves

  Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems : a Graywolf Anthology

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  A gathering of poems from Graywolf Press’s 50 years, including established and emerging poets, international poets and poets in translation.

• The Universe in Verse

  15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry

  Popova, Maria,

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  Each of the book's 15 essays is paired with a poem reflecting its subject.

• We the Gathered Heat

  Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word

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  In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and through the contested terrain of AAPI identity.

• You Are Here

  Poetry in the Natural World

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  Challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry,' illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.

• The Book of Tree Poems

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  With poems by some of the world's best-loved poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, William Meredith and W.H. Auden, this collection will help you see trees as you've never seen them before.

• Leaning Toward Light

  Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them

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  Offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal—an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.

• The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

  110 Poets on the Divine

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  Presents a number of canonical voices alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices going up to the present day, that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time.

• Poetry Unbound

  50 Poems to Open Your World

  Ó Tuama, Padraig,

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  With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem’s artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives.

• Watch Your Language

  Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

  Hayes, Terrance,

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  Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in the author's contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development.

• We Call to the Eye & the Night

  Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

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  Featured, of course, are evocative explorations of love and of the beloved; there are also poems of friendship and family, heritage and homeland, transporting us from city centers to the depths of the sea and to the stars above.

• The Wonder of Small Things

  Poems of Peace & Renewal

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  A collection of accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.

• Embodied

  An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology

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  A diverse array of award-winning contemporary poets and comic book artists work together to create sequential art poems showcasing the relevance, urgency, and power of both genres.