The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Poetry Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 30, 2023.

Bestseller "Devotions" by Mary Oliver1. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263

2. Above Ground: Poems
Clint Smith, Little, Brown, $27, 9780316543033

3. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256

4. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792

5. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Norton, $27.95, 9781324035473

6. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808

7. The Hurting Kind: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $24, 9781639550494

8. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $24, 9780593300237

9. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839

10. The Carrying: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571315137

11. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

12. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066

13. And Yet: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780063115552

14. Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571314710

15. Clarity & Connection
Yung Pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781524860486

16. Musical Tables: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780399589782

17. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Storey Publishing, $14.95, 9781635863864

18. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $16, 9781556594953

19. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506

20. 100 Poems That Matter
The Academy of American Poets, Andrews McMeel, $19.99, 9781524858131

21. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo, Norton, $25, 9781324036487

22. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
James Crews (Ed.), Storey Publishing, $14.95, 9781635865332

23. Promises of Gold
José Olivarez, Henry Holt and Co., $24.99, 9781250878496

24. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

25. 100 Poems To Break Your Heart
Edward Hirsch, Ecco, $17.99, 9780358699354