Poetry Public

Created and curated by Josh Simmons

  1. Poet in New York by 

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  2. Given Sugar, Given Salt by 

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    In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems …

  3. The Dead and the Living by  (Knopf poetry series -- 13.)

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  4. God's trombones by  (Penguin classics)

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    The inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson.

    James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one …

  5. The Rose That Grew from Concrete by 

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    A collection of brilliant and intense poems, in the handwritten and typed version, by the rapper Tupac Shakur.

  6. Said the Shotgun to the Head by 

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    "Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies …

  7. Flammable Solid by 

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  8. You Better Be Lightning by 

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    You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection.

    The poems range …

  9. Gardening secrets of the dead by 

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  10. Haikudelka by 

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    "A collection of haiku and drawings by that hack Jon Kudelka." A collection of 35 illustrated haiku. Saddle stitched, A6.

  11. Scar and Flower by 

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  12. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by 

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    When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, she immediately took …

  13. Black nature by 

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  14. Love Poems by 

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    In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of …

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