Summer Reads

Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me?Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest...

Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and...

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRYWINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARDWINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZEA LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATUREON NPR BOOKS'S...

In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your...

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!   What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our...

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by...

A wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverFascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. With ancient roots in pagan belief,...

(Available after 3-20 days)A collection from one of contemporary American poetry's finest craftsmenThrough birdcalls and ancient songs, rain patter and a child's scribble, the poems in Far-Fetched "sound the empty space / to test how long / how far."...

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (NPR).“Where are you from …? No—where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never...

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.In this powerful gathering of poems about her own...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHubA new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetryIn Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh collection, the image of a...

From the renowned Booker Prize–winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and COVID-19.In our times of crisisThe mind has its powersThis book brings together many of...

(Available after 3-20 days)Titled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis May’s poems describe mental...

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of “quiet” in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.“Bulley’s stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they]...

(Available after 3-20 days) "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.”  —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead    Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New...

A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI’m a song, changing. I’m a lightrain falling through a vastdarkness toward a differentdarkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.   In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...

In the “thrilling...masterful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted, and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to...

(Available after 3-20 days) Jordan and his Riverdale Academy Day School classmates are off on an epic school trip – to Paris! This hilarious and heartfelt graphic novel about friendship, fitting in, and standing out is an excellent addition to the New...