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Whether you’re a lifelong poetry reader or are looking for your first collection to pick up, we’ve got something for you! Our writers cover new poetry, the best poetry for every reader, and more.

Book Riot’s Best Books of 2012

Editor’s note: We challenged our contributors to choose their top 2 books of 2012. Some were sassy and only picked one, others ...

Three Awesome Poetry Books You Should Read

We don’t talk about poetry enough!  Not here at Book Riot, not in life, not anywhere. Poetry is fabulous. And ...

World Book Night America Selections – A Discussion

Book Riot Contributing Editors Amanda Nelson and Kit Steinkellner talk about the selections for World Book Night US below: Kit ...

We Are the Dead: Observing Remembrance Day with Two WWI Poets

In Canada and across the Commonwealth today it’s Remembrance Day, and at 11:00 on November 11 many of us will ...

The Best of Book Spine Poetry

The concept of book spine poetry appeared in 1993 with Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books project. Katchadourian began collecting interesting titles ...

Early ’90s Drafts of Li Po’s Famous Poem “We sit together/ the mountain and I/ until only the mountain remains.”

Dude, when I was visiting college friends in Seattle, in the 90s, I was driving around in my van and ...

What’s Your Take on the National Book Award Shortlists?

The finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were announced this morning. The National Book Award celebrates American works (obviously) ...

Books To Read When You’re Blue

When you’re blue, what do you read? My mother said she reads John Donne poems. That is so cerebral, I ...

Sites We Like: Speak, Celebrity

There’s something about the intersection of pop culture and highbrow literary schtuff that just makes me go all a-tingly. This ...

The Bob Dylan Reading List

Much has already been written, both positive and negative, of Bob Dylan’s thirty-fifth studio album Tempest. Some critics consider the ...