Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, once said that, "poetry is life distilled." Poetry means different things to different people, but most agree that poems demonstrate life: the ups, the downs, the outward, the inward, and everything in between. Whether poetry is already something you already enjoy or a new area for you, take a moment to read a poem or two. You may be inspired!
This reading list provides you with some collections of poetry that are currently available through Kinlaw Library. This list is not exhaustive of our collection, but is intended to provide some recommended titles. Consider this your encouragement to experience something new this year! If you know of additional resources we should add to our collection, please click "Suggest a Book" on the right-hand menu and let us know.
We have a copy of each title listed below in our physical collection in Kinlaw Library. This is only a small sampling of our collection, so check out our catalog for additional reading. Come in to the library to check out a title below from our Spotlight Display or you can Request a Hold to pick up your books on the go.
So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin
New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices) by Bell Hooks
All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye
Where Hope Comes From by Nikita Gill
Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (Karen Karbiener, editor)
The Great Poems of the Bible by James L. Kugel
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (verse novel)
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (verse novel)
A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (verse novel)
Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (verse novel)
a verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose.
Our e-books are not available for download, but can be viewed with any device that can open a PDF reader. You can print or download a set of pages from each book to read offline if you desire. You can view our e-book collection to search for additional titles.