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“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it begins as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”
-Mary Oliver
eBooks
Books
Media
Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy
by
Philip Mills
ISBN: 9783031786143
Publication Date: 2025-01-01
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
ISBN: 9780585219974
After a Thousand Tears
by
Jimmy Worthy II (Editor, Introduction by); Georgia Douglas Johnson; Maureen Honey (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780820362830
Publication Date: 2023-03-01
Calamities!
by
Jane Arthur
ISBN: 9781776920723
Publication Date: 2023-09-07
This Is a Story about Your Mother
by
Louise Wallace
ISBN: 9781776920716
Publication Date: 2023-09-07
The Ghetto, and Other Poems
by
Lola Ridge; Lawrence Kramer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781531500900
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
I, Divided
by
Chelsea Dingman
ISBN: 9780807180174
Publication Date: 2023-11-01
The Horse Fair
by
Robin Becker
ISBN: 9780822957201
Publication Date: 2000-03-09
Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers
by
Kelly McQuain (Contribution by); Jeff Mann
ISBN: 9781680033328
Publication Date: 2023-02-15
The Nectar Dancer
by
Donald Mace Williams
ISBN: 9798986407890
Publication Date: 2023-08-21
The Way Things Go
by
Louis Bury
ISBN: 9781685711184
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
Come Kingdom : Poems
ISBN: 9780807178249
Doll Apollo : Poems
ISBN: 9780807178270
Keep the Feast : Poems
ISBN: 9780807178065
Our Lady of Bewilderment : Poems
ISBN: 9780807177181
The Judas Ear : Poems
ISBN: 9780807177433
Light at the Seam : Poems
ISBN: 9780807177419
Lures : Poems
ISBN: 9780807177266
Mining the Bright Birds
by
Jody L. Collins
ISBN: 9781666782943
Publication Date: 2023-08-15
Black Pastoral
by
Ariana Benson; Willie Perdomo (Selected by)
ISBN: 9780820365183
Publication Date: 2023-09-15
The Paradise Notebooks
by
Richard J. Nevle; Steven Nightingale; Mattias Lanas (Drawings by)
ISBN: 9781501762697
Publication Date: 2022-04-15
To Taste the River
by
Baiba Bičole; Bitite Vinklers (Translator)
ISBN: 9781951508029
Publication Date: 2021-07-20
Unbound
by
Gabrielle McIntire
ISBN: 9780228006176
Publication Date: 2021-07-15
No More Time
ISBN: 9780807174272
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod
by
Traci Brimhall
ISBN: 9781556595806
Publication Date: 2020-03-31
Poems and Prose of Mihai Eminescu
by
Ioana Lupusoru (Illustrator); A. K. Brackob
ISBN: 9781592110292
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
Mountains Piled upon Mountains
by
Jessica Cory (Editor)
ISBN: 9781946684905
Publication Date: 2019-08-01
So Far So Good
ISBN: 9781619321892
Listening Through the Bone
by
Willy Conley
ISBN: 9781944838416
Publication Date: 2018-11-29
Oceanic
by
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
ISBN: 9781556595264
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Between Wind and Water
by
berni m janssen
ISBN: 9781925581591
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Written in Exile
by
Liu Tsung-yuan; Red Pine (Translator)
ISBN: 9781556595622
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Rebel Poet
by
Louis V. Clark (Two Shoes)
ISBN: 9780870209291
Publication Date: 2019-08-14
Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey : Poems
ISBN: 9780807177013
Tender the River
by
Matt W. Miller; Andre Dubus (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781680032246
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
A Body of Water
by
Chioma Urama
ISBN: 9780820358574
Publication Date: 2021-02-15
The Book / or / the Woods
by
Jeff T. Johnson
ISBN: 9781953035516
Publication Date: 2021-05-20
Once upon a Twin
by
Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781944838768
Publication Date: 2021-02-10
Bring Now the Angels
by
Dilruba Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822966074
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Sisyphus and I
by
Ilja Kostovski; Jack Hirschman (Translator); Donald Hitchcock (Translator)
ISBN: 9780996072243
Publication Date: 2020-05-30
Semiotics
by
Chekwube Danladi
ISBN: 9780820358109
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Poetry
by
John Strachan; Richard Terry
ISBN: 0814797962
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Poetry ; and, Imaginations of my days / Leszek Czuchajowski
ISBN: 8386225548
Decapitated Poetry
by
Ko-hua Chen; Wen-chi Li (Translator); Colin Bramwell (Translator)
ISBN: 9781803091648
Publication Date: 2023-04-25
Ai Qing
ISBN: 9787020053179
Su Shi shi ci xuan = Selected poems of Su Shi
ISBN: 9787543850002
Elizabeth Bishop
by
C. K. Doreski
ISBN: 9780195079661
Publication Date: 1993-05-27
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)
by
Robert Giroux (Editor); Lloyd Schwartz (Editor)
ISBN: 9781598530179
Publication Date: 2008-02-14
Blue Horses
by
Mary Oliver
ISBN: 9781594204791
Publication Date: 2014-10-14
Rules for the dance : a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse
by
Mary Oliver
ISBN: 039585086X
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
by
Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 0688140475
Publication Date: 1996-01-11
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
by
Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 0060541334
Publication Date: 2003-11-25
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
by
Morgan Parker
ISBN: 9781941040539
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Voyage of the Sable Venus
by
Robin Coste Lewis
ISBN: 9781101875438
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Allegiance
by
francine j. harris
ISBN: 9780814336182
Publication Date: 2012-02-29
We Speak Your Names
by
Pearl Cleage; Zaron W. Burnett (As told to)
ISBN: 9780345490278
Publication Date: 2006-05-09
Poems of Phillis Wheatley
by
Phillis Wheatley
ISBN: 9781557092335
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
The Complete Works of Pat Parker
by
Pat Parker
ISBN: 9781938334221
Publication Date: 2016-10-15
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