In this installment, the Poetry Center shares work from our collection of poets who passed away within the year.

A Cup of Sin, Simin Behbahāni

Gaugin’s Chair, Robert Peters

Sadder than Water, Samīħ al-Qāsim

And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

Night of my Blood, Kofi Awoonor

Selected Poetry, Amiri Baraka

The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman

The Very Thing That Happens, Russel Edson

Dark Times Filled With Light, Juan Gelman

Sweet Youth, Allen Grossman

Poems - The Trial - Prison, Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Harm, Hillary Gravendyk

Human Chain, Seamus Heaney

The Head of the Bed, John Hollander

The Nearness of You, Carolyn Kizer

And Short the Season, Maxine Kumin

Poems for Death, Bill Knott

Selected Poems, José Emilio Pacheco

Trusty Sarcophagus Co., Rene Ricard

They Came to See a Poet, Tadeusz Różewicz

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