In this installment, Mary Austin Speaker shares some of her favorite books from our collection. 

Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, Dawn Lundy Martin

Western Practice, Stephen Motika

Zoologies, Alison Hawthorne Deming

Bone Map, Sara Eliza Johnson

Sand Opera, Philip Metres

Park Elderberry Branch, Marina Tsvetaeva

The Living Method, Sara Nicholson

Rude Woods, Nate Klug

My Enemies, Jane Gregory

A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind, Alfred Starr Hamilton

Occasional Work & Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture, Lisa Robertson

This Isa Nice Neighborhood, Farid Matuk

Case Sensitive, Kate Greenstreet

Coal, Audre Lorde

Plainwater, Anne Carson

The Countess from Minneapolis, Barbara Guest

Poems, Bill Knott

Discipline, Dawn Lundy Martin

Midwinter Day, Bernadette Mayer

Inri, Raul Zurita

American Music, Chris Martin

National Anthem, Kevin Pruffer

New Collected Poems, George Oppen

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

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From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.