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Task #24: A collection of poetry published since 2014 #ReadHarder 2019
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The Poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
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Milk and honey
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)
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Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
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Anxiety
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
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If They Come for Us
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Don't Call Us Dead
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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In the House of My Father
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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Not Here
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Hieu Minh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 369,583 ratings
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
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The Rise of Genderqueer
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Electric Arches
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Eve L. Ewing (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 3,568 ratings
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To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)
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Long Way Down
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blud
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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Sabrina Benaim (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 16,923 ratings
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Like: Poems
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4.07 avg rating — 384 ratings
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2015 Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries (Battle of the Bards, #3)
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Poudre River Public Library District (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 171,
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American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
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Tracy K. Smith (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 669 ratings
score: 166,
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Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
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Christine Heppermann (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 6,021 ratings
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Look: Poems
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Even This Page Is White
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Vivek Shraya (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 2,058 ratings
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Whereas
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The Carrying
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Ada Limon (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 9,129 ratings
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Blood Water Paint
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Joy McCullough (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 9,829 ratings
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
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4.29 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
score: 139,
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Mad Honey Symposium
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Sally Wen Mao (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 272 ratings
score: 137,
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 10,610 ratings
score: 135,
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Brown: Poems
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4.06 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Cape Verdean Blues (Pitt Poetry Series)
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3.81 avg rating — 273 ratings
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How to Dress a Fish
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4.36 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
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Anthony Holden (Editor)
3.68 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Dear Mother: Poems on the hot mess of motherhood
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4.36 avg rating — 743 ratings
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Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.40 avg rating — 463 ratings
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
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4.16 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Dear Diary: Political, Poetic, Pleasure & Pain
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Summer of Dead Birds
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4.26 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Poūkahangatus
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Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel I
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
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The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 48,916 ratings
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The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
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4.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,237 ratings
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The End of The World Again
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A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
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Marilyn Chin (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
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4.38 avg rating — 794 ratings
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Magical Negro
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4.30 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
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how to survive a hotel fire
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4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Kumukanda
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3.96 avg rating — 559 ratings
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What We Carry
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Dorianne Laux (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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New Poets of Native Nations
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4.40 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Her Blue Body
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Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Racing Hummingbirds
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Jeanann Verlee (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Black Movie
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This Way to the Sugar
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Hieu Minh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Any Man
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Amber Tamblyn (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 15,084 ratings
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Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
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Cleo Wade (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 10,206 ratings
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Unveiled
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Rumki Chowdhury (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
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Wade in the Water: Poems
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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Patricia Lockwood (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
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Sea of Strangers
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Lang Leav (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 14,411 ratings
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The New Nudity
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Brooklyn Antediluvian
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There Should Be Flowers
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 400 ratings
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A Place Called No Homeland
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Passage
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Calling Down the Sky
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Trailer Park Elegy
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Composition of a Woman
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Christine E. Ray (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Felicity
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Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
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Dorianne Laux (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Helium
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Jabberwalking
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Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
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Liz Howard (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Loop of Jade
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Prelude to Bruise
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Saeed Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,697 ratings
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The Shark Cage
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Rapture: Poems
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Liffey Swim
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Beautiful Nerve
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Sheila Squillante (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Verging Cities (Mountain West Poetry Series)
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color
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Sincerity
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Marys of the Sea
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Joanna C. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Sexting Ghosts
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Joanna C. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Like a Beggar
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Good Bones
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Maggie Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,798 ratings
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Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
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Nikita Gill (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 11,974 ratings
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
