Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up 13 collections by Atlanta poets.

Check out these Canadian poetry collections we're excited about in spring 2025! If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is currently accepting submissions. You can submit an ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

At just 16 years old, Kyo Lee of Waterloo became the youngest person to win the CBC Poetry Prize. That was in 2023. Now at 18 ...

CD Esklison’s new poetry collection examines this connection, whether overtly or by putting the two things side by side and leaving the associations up to the reader's interpretation. Eskilson’s broad ...

The collection brings Ceremonies back into print alongside a number of uncollected pieces pulled from the archives of such long-running publications as Obsidian, among others, spotlighting the work of ...

In "Late to the Search Party," Steven Espada Dawson's elegies grapple with addiction, loss, grief and belonging.

Contemporary poetry is fun, exciting, and so refreshingly accessible. Now's your time to pick up a collection and dive into verses that will snap you out of your morning commute. There really is ...