April is National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate by checking out these books by award-winning poets.

Native guard / Natasha Trethewey, 2006
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass, 2007
2007 National Book Award for Poetry

Elegy: poems / Mary Jo Bang, 2007
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Tom Thomson in purgatory / Troy Jollimore, 2006
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

A new hunger / Laure-Anne Bosselaar, 2007
In a prominent bar in Secaucus: new and selected poems, 1955-2007 / X.J. Kennedy, 2007
American Library Association’s Best Poetry Books of 2007

The voice at 3:00 a.m.: selected late and new poems / Charles Simic, 2007
Current U.S. Poet Laureate

The poet’s corner: the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family / [selected by] John Lithgow, 2007

Gulf music / Robert Pinsky, 2007

Wall of two: poems of resistance and suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and beyond / Henia and Ilona Karmel, 2007

A worldly country: new poems / John Ashbery, 2007

The door / Margaret Atwood, 2007

New collected poems / Eavan Boland, 2008

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