100 Poems That Matter

A lovely collection with many familiar poems and poets and even more who were unknown to me. I appreciate that there was an effort to have diverse voices in this collection. You can never go wrong with Warsan Shire, Mary Oliver, and William Butler Yeats.

100 POEMS THAT MATTERBY: THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETSThis compilation of poetry is excellent and it has some of my favorite poets contained within this excellent resource. Some of the themes explored within this are love, loss and nature. I enjoyed this immensely, but I didn't care for discovering it is delivered via PDF format instead of reading them on my Kindle. I will return to these poems again and again, but will purchase my copy when it reaches publication to really enjoy them more. Recommended!Publication Date 12-13-2022 Available Now!

Some of the pies were wonderful but others were political polemics. Even if I agree with them they don't work as poems

Bought for a Christmas gift at work. My co worker love them.

A poem for keeping your head on straight. Universal topics from classic writers to modern poets. My husband loved this for Father’s Day.

Great book to refer to in all seasons of life...

Bought this book as a Christmas gift for a poetry lover. He read some of the poems and felt they were vulgar and offensive. Returned it the day after Christmas

This is an anthology that will help you cry and soothe you at the same time!I’ve been subscribed to poets.org for the longest time. Not only am I a huge fan of the poems they send, but it’s amazing to be be able to go and read a poem on the site. Sometimes your heart needs a certain poem and it’s fantastic to be able to access it so quickly! When I found out that this book was being published by the same people, I knew it would be amazing and reading it only provided that assumption right!The anthology is split into five sections, each covering an overarching theme such as grief, the body, desire, etc. It took me a few minutes to understand but when I did I fell in love with the titles of these sections! I think I was slow on the uptake because the only one I was immediately familiar with was ‘Practice Losing Further, Losing Faster.’This review is not very objective, because as it just so happens I needed the third and the fifth poems quite badly. And while the book had quite a few that I’ve read before and loved, I was also introduced to some fantastic new ones that I’ll turn to in the future!I should also admit that I prefer anthologies like this one over collections that are purely one poet. If you really love a poet I’m sure you’ll love an entire book comprised of just them, but anthologies such as this one are the ones that give you comfort and introduce you to those poets. To steal the music analogy from this book, sometimes an entire album by an artist might not work for you, but a song by them on the right playlist will!