Curated category · 2006—2025

Best poetry

Award-winning and editorially recommended poetry across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections: 458
Authors: 416
Lists & prizes: 3

Showing 241–288 of 458

2019Poetry

Be Recorder: Poems

Carmen Giménez Smith

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2019Poetry

Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, And Mine

Emily Bernard

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2019Poetry

Coventry: Essays

Rachel Cusk

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2019Poetry

Cyborg Detective

Jillian Weise

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2019Poetry

Deaf Republic: Poems

Ilya Kaminsky

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2019Poetry

Dunce

Mary Ruefle

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2019Poetry

Everything Inside: Stories

Edwidge Danticat

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2019Poetry

Exhalation: Stories

Ted Chiang

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2019Poetry

Felon: Poems

Reginald Dwayne Betts

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2019Poetry

Growing Things And Other Stories

Paul Tremblay

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2019Poetry

Hybrida: Poems

Tina Chang

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2019Poetry

I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution

Emily Nussbaum

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2019Poetry

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

Mary Laura Philpott

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2019Poetry

Lima :: Limón

Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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2019Poetry

Lot: Stories

Bryan Washington

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2019Poetry

Love Poems For Married People

John Kenney

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2019Poetry

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Leslie Jamison

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2019Poetry

Nightingale

Paisley Rekdal

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2019Poetry

Nobody's Looking At You: Essays

Janet Malcolm

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2019Poetry

Oculus: Poems

Sally Wen Mao

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2019Poetry

Orange World And Other Stories

Karen Russell

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2019Poetry

Sight Lines

Arthur Sze

National Book Award for Poetry

2019Poetry

Sing To It: New Stories

Amy Hempel

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2019Poetry

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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2019Poetry

Song For The Unraveling Of The World

Brian Evenson

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2019Poetry

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang

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2019Poetry

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

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2019Poetry

The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West

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2019Poetry

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

Rion Amilcar Scott

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2019Poetry

Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom

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2019Poetry

Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

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2019Poetry

What My Mother And I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence

Michele Filgate (editor)

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2018Poetry

A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

Donald Hall

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2018Poetry

A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems

Emily Jungmin Yoon

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2018Poetry

A Lucky Man: Stories

Jamel Brinkley

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2018Poetry

A Thousand Beginnings And Endings

Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (editors)

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2018Poetry

All The Names They Used For God

Anjali Sachdeva

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2018Poetry

American Hate: Survivors Speak Out

Arjun Singh Sethi

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2018Poetry

Back Talk: Stories

Danielle Lazarin

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2018Poetry

Brown: Poems

Kevin Young

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2018Poetry

Calypso

David Sedaris

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2018Poetry

Cenzontle

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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2018Poetry

Citizen Illegal

José Olivarez

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2018Poetry

Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith

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2018Poetry

Florida

Lauren Groff

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2018Poetry

Heads Of The Colored People: Stories

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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2018Poetry

How Are You Going To Save Yourself

JM Holmes

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2018Poetry

How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories

N.K. Jemisin

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