Books of Poetry

• A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
• Ridiculous Masterpiece by Caitlyn Siobhan Howe
• Beast Stories by Nathan Young
• The Illiad by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
• The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
• Mahabharata by Vyasa
• The Lusiad by Luís Vaz Camões
• The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora
• Song Of Lawino by Okot P'Bitek
• Sailing Without Ahab by Steve Mentz
• Trilogy by Hilda Doolittle
• When my Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Díaz
• I Remember by Joe Brainard
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
• The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
• The Cattle Raid of Cooley by Anonymous
• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
• The Lusiads by Luís de Camões
• The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
• The Song of Roland by Anonymous
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
• Hyperion by John Keats
• Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
• Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Kalidasa’s Meghaduta by Kalidasa
• Tales of the Hall by George Crabbe
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
• Don Juan by Lord Byron
• Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Beowulf by Anonymous
• The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
• (S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi
• Knucklehead by Tony Keith Jr.
• We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
• Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro
• Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
• Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
• Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan (LGBTQ)
• Saints of the Household by Ari Tison
• Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin
• The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson
• I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta
• The Truth Project by Dante Medema
• What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann
• The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
• When You Ask Me Where I’m Going by Jasmin Kaur
• An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• Solo by Kwame Alexander & Mary Rand Hess
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
• Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole
• I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins
• Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
• How The Boogeyman Became A Poet by Tony Keith Jr.
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woods

Poetry Anthologies

• 150 Most Famous Poems: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and Many More edited by Poetry House
• 100 Poems That Matter edited by The Academy of American Poets
• The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost edited by Harold Bloom
• 101 Famous Poems edited by Roy J. Cook
• I Will Not Go edited by Rajiv Mohabir
• Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
• Gurlesque edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallwothy
• The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh, Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
• Poemhood: Our Black Revival, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin
• Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro, and Mohammed El-Kurd
• Objects from April and May by Zena Agha and Hanna Stephens
• Here Poetry Journal edited by Daniel Donaghy, et al.
• Breathing Poetry edited by Shreya Mishra, et. al.

Books by Individual Poets