Poetry Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Poetry Foundation on XThe Poetry Foundation works to amplify poetry & celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience & share poetry. Publisher of @PoetryMagazine

Somebody Else Sold the World
Adrian MatejkaThere is still time to register for our October book club, featuring SOMEBODY ELSE SOLD THE WORLD by @PoetryMagazine editor @adrian_matejka! 📖 https://t.co/MjZm0zrTAv
Paperback, 2021
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste LewisCheck out Sylee Gore's (@BerlinReified) review of TO THE REALIZATION OF PERFECT HELPLESSNESS by Robin Coste Lewis, published by @penguinrandom. #HarrietBooks Read the review: https://t.co/abBrGU6nKk https://t.co/hI2dbfUpA1
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger ReevesCheck out our review of Roger Reeves’s BEST BARBARIAN https://t.co/gwqppsj1c1 #NBAwards
Paperback, 2023
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paul Celan: Selections Volume 3
Paul CelanNo one bears witness for the witness. —Paul Celan #PoemOfTheDay Read a note from our Digital Archive Editor on June's selections https://t.co/dPs0jFOtS8 https://t.co/XBJiaOI473
Paperback, 2005
$34.95Member price:$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceToday is #Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce observed on June 16, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904. https://t.co/LAvvczz4cd https://t.co/UhYWl3GfmW
Paperback, 2022
$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Edna St Vincent MillayIn her early poems, there's a great deal of radical thought about what being a woman meant within bourgeois society’s restraints of marriage, respectability, and all-around good behavior. —@DeclanRBoxing on Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries https://t.co/lxYoleRQe9
Hardcover, 2025
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off
Fir-flower Tablets: Poems
Amy LowellAmy Lowell was born #OnThisDay in 1874. This poem was published in the April 1914 issue of @poetrymagazine, and is available in our collection of Queer Love Poems. https://t.co/OcRdjPcjWc https://t.co/V8ouaA0GWX
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Connecting the Dots: Poems
Maxine KuminAt night we will set our poems adrift in ginger ale bottles each with a clamshell rudder each with a piggyback spider waving them off by dogstar —Maxine Kumin, who was born #OnThisDay in 1925. https://t.co/8Isx4tjsE2
Paperback, 1998
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Blood Involved in Love
Maya MarshallLIMITED SPACE still available for this month's online book club! We're reading ALL THE BLOOD INVOLVED IN LOVE by @mayaamarshall, published by @HaymarketBooks. Register today! 📖 https://t.co/HO8wDEpF5U
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Weary Blues
Langston HughesThump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more— “I got the Weary Blues And I can’t be satisfied. —Langston Hughes, who was born #OnThisDay in 1901, with our #PoemOfTheDay. https://t.co/m31H8WR2tf
Paperback, 2022
$3.95Member price:$3.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)