National Poetry

  • Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems

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    A NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNER SELECTED AND WITH A FOREWORD BY BRENDA HILLMAN

    A collection of poems that explores rural Missouri, violence, queer desire / intimacy, addiction, familial and wildlife

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Walquist, Kieron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 0807021253
    • Language: English
  • Sweet Movie: Poems

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    “What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”–Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet Movie

    A National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Dietzman, Alisha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807013285
    • Language: English
  • Bone Map: Poems

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    “These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    Selected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson’s stunning, deeply visceral first collection pu

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Johnson, Sara Eliza
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 16 2014
    • ISBN10: 1571314695
    • Language: English
  • The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket: Poems

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    The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi… [more below]

    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Drake, Kinsale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0820367303
    • Language: English
  • The Good Thief

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    The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this uniq… [more below]

    • Series: National Poetry #0
    • Author: Howe, Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 54
    • Publish Date: January 17 1988
    • ISBN10: 0892551275
    • Language: English
  • What It Doesn’t Have to Do with: Poems

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    Lindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Bernal, Lindsay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: September 15 2018
    • ISBN10: 0820353949
    • Language: English
  • Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems

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    Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

    Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry

    Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry

    Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National P

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Skeets, Jake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 10 2019
    • ISBN10: 1571315209
    • Language: English
  • Leadbelly: Poems

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    “It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”–Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge

    A biography in poems,

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Jess, Tyehimba
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: October 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0974635332
    • Language: English
  • Survival Strategies: Poems

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    Survival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, this collection of poems follows a narrative arc.The speaker, who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after ma

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Black, Tennison S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0820365157
    • Language: English
  • Ask the Brindled: Poems

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    Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life–the body, a people, their language. It is a[more below]

    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Revilla, No’u
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: August 09 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550003
    • Language: English
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