Poets.org Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Science and Steepleflower: Poetry
Forrest GanderPoets.orgThe @DodgePoetryFest is in full swing! Check out today's lineup of events, including Poetry & Craft: Metaphor, a conversation w/ @POETSorg Chancellors Ellen Bass, Kwame Dawes, Forrest Gander & Terrance Hayes. NJPAC Victoria Theater, 9:30am ET. Learn more: https://t.co/8voojm93xB https://t.co/HSkOxdELxA
Paperback, 1998
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Maggie SmithPoets.orgDon't miss our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: KEEP MOVING, a @WritersandBooks reading & conversation with @maggiesmithpoet, author of KEEP MOVING: NOTES ON LOSS, CREATIVITY & CHANGE (@AtriaBooks @OneSignalPub, 2020). Thurs 2/4 @ 730pm ET. Free with RSVP: https://poets.org/event/maggie-smith-keep-moving
Hardcover, 2020
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Ground
Fanny HowePoets.orgWhat is a poet but a person Who lives on the ground Who laughs and listens Without pretension of knowing Anything —Fanny Howe, born #OTD in 1940 https://t.co/gFRWPAcVSA
Paperback, 2004
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories
Ursula K. Le GuinPoets.orgThe people who cut trees, the people who break stones, want stories before they go to sleep. —Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin https://t.co/rMzTS9RZDe
Paperback, 2013
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Flanders Fields
John McCraePoets.orgIn Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. —John McCrae #MemorialDay2022 https://t.co/IuJlPAHkCx
Paperback, 2022
$13.95Member price:$12.56 + Free shipping10% off
Poems
Walt WhitmanPoets.orgTo think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue? —Walt Whitman, born #OTD in 1819 https://t.co/NOsWAdfb5O Find poems, essays, and resources on Whitman at: https://t.co/G3DQGuTGAL
Paperback, 2016
$12.25Member price:$6.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lauren Semmer's the Night Before Christmas
Clement C. MoorePoets.org'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; —Clement Clarke Moore https://t.co/CWjNs9dBIi #ChristmasEve
Hardcover, 2025
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Raven: Edgar Allan Poe & Gustave Doré
Edgar Allan PoePoets.orgOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— —Edgar Allan Poe, from "The Raven," which was published #OTD in 1845 https://poets.org/poem/raven
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The Night Before Christmas
Clement MoorePoets.org'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; —Clement Clarke Moore https://t.co/CWjNs9dBIi #ChristmasEve
Hardcover, 2019
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste LewisPoets.org"...all of them, taught me that love is not a plaything. Love is iron. Love is fire. Love is a constant battle, a battle at which we must be adept." Read our interview with Robin Coste Lewis about her new book, To the Perfect Realization of Helplessness: https://t.co/LMxtW8aI4b https://t.co/v0ek6SjlDk
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book