“There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Hybrida : poems Tina Chang

Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine

Elegy Owed Bob Hicok

Voices in the Air An American Obit The Book of Ruin Facts About the Naomi Shihab Sunrise: Poems Victoria Chang Rigoberto González Moon Nye Joy Harjo Dorianne Laux

Horoscopes for the Dead Billy Collins

Lord of the Butterflies Andrea Gibson

The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur

Swimming Lessons Lili Reinhart

In the Lateness of the World: Poems Carolyn Forché The Undressing Devotions: The Deep Lane: The Best of It: Li-Young Lee Selected Poems of Good Poems for Hard Times Poems New and Mary Oliver Garrison Keillor Mark Doty Selected Poems Mary Oliver Kate Ryan

Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry Julian Peters

Break Your Glass Slippers Amanda Lovelace

Summer Snow: New Poems Robert Hass

Feel Free: Poems Nick Laird

Night Sky with Wade in the Light Filters In: Poems Breath The Collected Exit Wounds Water: Poems Caroline Kaufman Philip Levine Poems of Lucille Ocean Vuong Tracy K. Smith Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton Ten Poems for Difficult Times Roger Housden