Poetry is not a luxury : poems for all seasons / edited by the curator of @Poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
2025
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Title
Poetry is not a luxury : poems for all seasons / edited by the curator of @Poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.
Edition
First Washington Square Press/Atria Books hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781668062555 (hardcover)
1668062550 (hardcover)
1668062550 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Washington Square Press/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
xiv, 159 pages ; 19 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1460925154
Summary
"From the creator of the beloved @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account, a gorgeously wrought poetry anthology that is a gift and a guide for readers through every season of life"-- Provided by publisher.
"Inspired by writer and philosopher Audre Lorde's famous claim: "Poetry is not a luxury," this anthology proves the vitality of poetry as a crucial source of inspiration, comfort, and delight. In a first section, "Summer," you'll find lush landscapes and love poems for weddings and anniversaries, alongside poems on travel, protest, and expressions of sheer joy and exhilaration. "Autumn" ushers in nostalgic poems about home and family and friendship, fall leaves, nesting and gratitude. You may turn to "Winter" should you require a poem for mourning, some lyrics for loneliness, or an ode to comfort. Rounding out a year's worth of verse is "Spring," in which you'll discover celebratory poems, in the form of praise for rain and flowers, new beginnings, and all that the future might hold. Each poem within has been chosen from centuries of verse from around the world, with an emphasis on living poets. Friends old and new await, with selections from Rita Dove, Victoria Chang, Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab Nye, C.D. Wright, Eileen Myles, Ada Limón, Ross Gay, Ilya Kaminsky, Jos Charles, and more. From love poems to elegies, from the heights of new love to the furrows of anxiety, from special occasions to a morning pick-me-up, there is something here for longtime poetry lovers and novices, in any season of need." -- Provided by publisher.
"Inspired by writer and philosopher Audre Lorde's famous claim: "Poetry is not a luxury," this anthology proves the vitality of poetry as a crucial source of inspiration, comfort, and delight. In a first section, "Summer," you'll find lush landscapes and love poems for weddings and anniversaries, alongside poems on travel, protest, and expressions of sheer joy and exhilaration. "Autumn" ushers in nostalgic poems about home and family and friendship, fall leaves, nesting and gratitude. You may turn to "Winter" should you require a poem for mourning, some lyrics for loneliness, or an ode to comfort. Rounding out a year's worth of verse is "Spring," in which you'll discover celebratory poems, in the form of praise for rain and flowers, new beginnings, and all that the future might hold. Each poem within has been chosen from centuries of verse from around the world, with an emphasis on living poets. Friends old and new await, with selections from Rita Dove, Victoria Chang, Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab Nye, C.D. Wright, Eileen Myles, Ada Limón, Ross Gay, Ilya Kaminsky, Jos Charles, and more. From love poems to elegies, from the heights of new love to the furrows of anxiety, from special occasions to a morning pick-me-up, there is something here for longtime poetry lovers and novices, in any season of need." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Summer. One heart / by Li-Young Lee
/'migrant/ / by Tiana Nobile
Idea / by Kate Baer
The love cook / by Ron Padgett
The ways of the many / by Aja Monet
Strawberry moon / by Franny Choi
On seeing and being seen / by Ama Codjoe
Cento for the night I said, "I love you" / by Nicole Sealey
I went / by C.P. Cavafy
Loveable / by Raymond Antrobus
Tired of love poems / by Megan Fernandes
Tin bucket / by Jenny George
Happiness / by Mary Ruefle
Ode to hunger / by Zeina Hashem Beck
Pattern / rby Garous Abdolmalekian
At a waterfall, Reykjavik / by Eileen Myles
Summer Solstice / by Jenny Zhang
Think of others / by Mahmoud Darwish
43 / by Robin Coste Lewis
Jupiter / by Nicholas Hogg
Ode / by Noor Hindi
Tender / by Sophie Klahr
Just the wind for a sound, softly / by Carl Phillips
To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next stall / by Kim Addonizio
Phases of the moon/Things I have done / by Ella Frears
Starlings / by Maggie Smith
Sunday / by Primus St. John
Autumn. The responsibility of love / by G. E. Patterson
Against nostalgia / by Ada Lim?n
Going home / by Mark Nepo
When you go / by Edwin Morgan
This morning / by Hannah Bonner
Why did it / by William J. Harris
Passage / by Victoria Chang
A leaf, a shadow-hand / by Jean Valentine
On friendship / by Henri Cole
Text / by Carol Ann Duffy
[As I dig for wild orchids) by Izumi Shikibu
To a daughter leaving home / by Linda Pastan
Flowers / by Jay Bernard
A drunken phone call / by Nikki Giovanni
The wind did what the wind came to do / by Luther Hughes
I love you to the moon & / by Chen Chen
Everything is dying, nothing is dead / by Saeed Jones
My beloved finds me everywhere but here / by Rio Cortez
Fall song / by Joy Harjo
Song of the night worker / by Jessica Traynor
Fall / by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you aren't busy I think I'm on fire / by Wendy Xu
Ode to my homegirls / by Safia Elhillo
What came to me / by Jane Kenyon
Dream with horse / by Aria Aber
[We mention the cat] / by CA Conrad
New York, November / by J. Mae Barizo
Sleeping with you / by Ellen Bass
Thank you / by Ross Gay
Winter. Lake Z?rich / by Charif Shanahan
Wake up / by Noelle Kocot
Poem with evening coming on / by C.D. Wright
The voice in my head speaks English now / by Jos? Olivarez
Dear
/ by Donika Kelly
im going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense / by Danez Smith
There you are / by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Perfect song / by Heather Christle
These days / by Charles Olson
[I won't be able to write from the grave] / by Fanny Howe
Miss you. Would love to take a walk with you / by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Watching my friend pretend her heart is not breaking / by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Self-care / by Solmaz Sharif
Author's prayer / by llya Kaminsky
I still have everything you gave me / by Naomi Shihab Nye
Elogy VIII (missing you) / by Jason Schneiderman
The years / by Alex Dimitrov
I am filled with love / by Anna Swirszczynska
What is now will soon be past / by Yrsa Daley-Ward
January 7, 1997 / by Joe Wenderoth
Winter honey / by June Jordan
To the winter apricot blossom / by Emily Jungmin Yoon
On a train / by Wendy Cope
Maybe in another life / by Tiana Clark
Endings / by Sandra Lim
Morning love poem / by Tara Skurtu
Advice / by Langston Hughes
To know the dark / by Wendell Berry
Letter to a moon child / by Michael S. Harper
Spring. Coping / by Audre Lorde
[I want to wake up] / by Bhanu Kapil
As for what the rain can do / by D.A. Powell
I could let you go / by Thomas Dooley
Why bother? / by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I need a poem / by Kyla Jamieson
Myth / by Ata Moharreri
3 O'clock in the morning / by Jasmine Mans
Romance / by Timothy Liu
[You] / by Jos Charles
A cedary fragrance / by Jane Hirshfield
I am the horse / by Dorothea Lasky
Praising spring / by Linda Gregg
What she might pray / by Moyra Donaldson
Truth is I would like to escape myself / by Nour Al Ghraowi
Splendor / by Cole Krawitz
Miracles / by Brenda Shaughnessy
Orchard / by Andrea Cohen
The poem / by Franz Wright
Travelling together / by W.S. Merwin
How to not be a perfectionist / by Molly Brodak
Checkout / by Caroline Bird
Fluent / by John O'Donohue
Meditations in an emergency / by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Don't be afraid / by Alicia Ostriker
No romance / by Jacqueline Suskin
Scarf / by Rita Dove
We love what we have / by Mosab Abu Toha
[from For M] / by Mikko Harvey
[To be alive) / by Gregory Orr.
/'migrant/ / by Tiana Nobile
Idea / by Kate Baer
The love cook / by Ron Padgett
The ways of the many / by Aja Monet
Strawberry moon / by Franny Choi
On seeing and being seen / by Ama Codjoe
Cento for the night I said, "I love you" / by Nicole Sealey
I went / by C.P. Cavafy
Loveable / by Raymond Antrobus
Tired of love poems / by Megan Fernandes
Tin bucket / by Jenny George
Happiness / by Mary Ruefle
Ode to hunger / by Zeina Hashem Beck
Pattern / rby Garous Abdolmalekian
At a waterfall, Reykjavik / by Eileen Myles
Summer Solstice / by Jenny Zhang
Think of others / by Mahmoud Darwish
43 / by Robin Coste Lewis
Jupiter / by Nicholas Hogg
Ode / by Noor Hindi
Tender / by Sophie Klahr
Just the wind for a sound, softly / by Carl Phillips
To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next stall / by Kim Addonizio
Phases of the moon/Things I have done / by Ella Frears
Starlings / by Maggie Smith
Sunday / by Primus St. John
Autumn. The responsibility of love / by G. E. Patterson
Against nostalgia / by Ada Lim?n
Going home / by Mark Nepo
When you go / by Edwin Morgan
This morning / by Hannah Bonner
Why did it / by William J. Harris
Passage / by Victoria Chang
A leaf, a shadow-hand / by Jean Valentine
On friendship / by Henri Cole
Text / by Carol Ann Duffy
[As I dig for wild orchids) by Izumi Shikibu
To a daughter leaving home / by Linda Pastan
Flowers / by Jay Bernard
A drunken phone call / by Nikki Giovanni
The wind did what the wind came to do / by Luther Hughes
I love you to the moon & / by Chen Chen
Everything is dying, nothing is dead / by Saeed Jones
My beloved finds me everywhere but here / by Rio Cortez
Fall song / by Joy Harjo
Song of the night worker / by Jessica Traynor
Fall / by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you aren't busy I think I'm on fire / by Wendy Xu
Ode to my homegirls / by Safia Elhillo
What came to me / by Jane Kenyon
Dream with horse / by Aria Aber
[We mention the cat] / by CA Conrad
New York, November / by J. Mae Barizo
Sleeping with you / by Ellen Bass
Thank you / by Ross Gay
Winter. Lake Z?rich / by Charif Shanahan
Wake up / by Noelle Kocot
Poem with evening coming on / by C.D. Wright
The voice in my head speaks English now / by Jos? Olivarez
Dear
/ by Donika Kelly
im going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense / by Danez Smith
There you are / by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Perfect song / by Heather Christle
These days / by Charles Olson
[I won't be able to write from the grave] / by Fanny Howe
Miss you. Would love to take a walk with you / by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Watching my friend pretend her heart is not breaking / by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Self-care / by Solmaz Sharif
Author's prayer / by llya Kaminsky
I still have everything you gave me / by Naomi Shihab Nye
Elogy VIII (missing you) / by Jason Schneiderman
The years / by Alex Dimitrov
I am filled with love / by Anna Swirszczynska
What is now will soon be past / by Yrsa Daley-Ward
January 7, 1997 / by Joe Wenderoth
Winter honey / by June Jordan
To the winter apricot blossom / by Emily Jungmin Yoon
On a train / by Wendy Cope
Maybe in another life / by Tiana Clark
Endings / by Sandra Lim
Morning love poem / by Tara Skurtu
Advice / by Langston Hughes
To know the dark / by Wendell Berry
Letter to a moon child / by Michael S. Harper
Spring. Coping / by Audre Lorde
[I want to wake up] / by Bhanu Kapil
As for what the rain can do / by D.A. Powell
I could let you go / by Thomas Dooley
Why bother? / by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I need a poem / by Kyla Jamieson
Myth / by Ata Moharreri
3 O'clock in the morning / by Jasmine Mans
Romance / by Timothy Liu
[You] / by Jos Charles
A cedary fragrance / by Jane Hirshfield
I am the horse / by Dorothea Lasky
Praising spring / by Linda Gregg
What she might pray / by Moyra Donaldson
Truth is I would like to escape myself / by Nour Al Ghraowi
Splendor / by Cole Krawitz
Miracles / by Brenda Shaughnessy
Orchard / by Andrea Cohen
The poem / by Franz Wright
Travelling together / by W.S. Merwin
How to not be a perfectionist / by Molly Brodak
Checkout / by Caroline Bird
Fluent / by John O'Donohue
Meditations in an emergency / by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Don't be afraid / by Alicia Ostriker
No romance / by Jacqueline Suskin
Scarf / by Rita Dove
We love what we have / by Mosab Abu Toha
[from For M] / by Mikko Harvey
[To be alive) / by Gregory Orr.
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