April is poetry month, and what better way to celebrate than by reading poetry! Here we have selected some of our favorite poetry books and poetry collections that you can find in our online bookstore. Happy reading!

The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void by Jackie Wang

The intimate poems from Jackie Wang’s debut collection take us somewhere beyond our waking world, yet that remains intimately tied to it. Wang’s journey through dreams shows us how they tie us to history and society, humor and pain, and ultimately renew and inspire our waking lives.

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz’s second collection of poetry is a brilliant showcase of works that reclaim the language of desire–pleasure can arise from discomfort, and love is both grief and joy. Diaz shows how the inscrutable damage imposed on Indigenous peoples and communities can cause something more powerful than hope to sprout from within.

Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes

Bronx native Lara Mimosa Montes exists in two spaces at once: the present and the Bronx of the 1970s and 80s. This abstract meditation on grief and healing combines streams of consciousness with contemplations on death, philosophy, poetry, history, and art, with fragments from other texts and authors to create one cohesive and transformative vision.

Oracle: A Cosmology by Destiny Hemphill

In this chapbook, Hemphill transforms the familial into the cosmic as she imagines new realms of existence through her exploration of family narratives and her reflections on communal liberation.

Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist by Monica Teresa Ortiz

Monica Teresa Ortiz reports live from a “Death-World” where she confronts the rugged landscape of Texas and the Southwest, faces the receptions of her sexuality, and describes her friendship with death. In this post-apocalyptic space, death congregates Ortiz’s passages, but multiple lives are contained in every line.

Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young

This collection, the first translated to English, by the Korean writer Moon Bo Young, invites the reader to take these poems not so seriously. These poems contain multitudes and they are only as serious as you make them. Instilled with vulnerability, surrealism and humor still spill through the pages of this collection as Moon Bo Young disrupts the conventional aims of the poet.