In celebration of National Poetry Month, we've selected for your consideration several enthralling collections, including spoken-word artist Sarah Kay's "enchanting and honest" A Little Daylight Left, which invites even readers who don't read much poetry to "fall in love with the form." You'll find that "nature and language are saving graces" in Robin Walter's Little Mercy, and that the "allusions and wordplay" are "razor-sharp" in Ahmad Almallah's Wrong Winds. Meanwhile, Sarah Suk delivers "an impressive, multilayered story of love" in Meet Me at Blue Hour, a YA novel about friends from childhood who reconnect in an unexpected time and place.
For The Writer's Life, award-winning poet Amy Gerstler discusses the "nimble and capacious genre" of poetry as possibly "the most protean of art forms." This wide-ranging interview also touches upon the lessons to be learned from women who act boldly and the joys to be found in our fellow creatures on this planet.