April is National Poetry Month and celebrates the contributions of poets and poetry to our culture. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, poetry is defined as literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
To celebrate the wisdom, language, and ideas of the craft, we’ve shared a few recent, prize-winning poetry books from our collections at the NYU Libraries. We’ve also created a Poems and Poets Research Guide, a gateway to books, journal articles, video, and web resources related to poets and poetry. The NYU Libraries also provides users access to the Columbia Granger's World of Poetry database, a great resource for finding information about where poems have been published and anthologized.
Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019; Pulitzer Prize)
Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020; National Book Award for Poetry)
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press, 2020; National Book Award finalist)
Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019; National Jewish Book Award for Poetry)
Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart (Liverpool University Press, 2020; T.S. Eliot Prize)
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015; National Book Award for Poetry)
Xandria Phillips, HULL (Nightboat Books, 2019; Lambda Literary Award)
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency (Coffee House Press, 2018; National Book Award for Poetry)
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf Press, 2017; National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014; National Book Critics Circle Award, Forward Prize for Poetry)
Arthur Sze, Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019; National Book Award for Poetry)
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