It's National Poetry Month and our booksellers have selected some of our favorite volumes of poetry for your perusal this April. Featured poets include English poet Stevie Smith, "mordantly amusing and fresh as a sassy cat;" Porsha Olayiwola with her debut collection I Shimmer Sometimes, Too, which soars with the power and presence of live performance; Ada Limón with The Carrying, winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award; and an anthology collection including Eileen Myles, Margaret Atwood, and Oscar Wilde in The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.

Shop our selections in the store this month and here on harvard.com.

Monday, April 5, 7PM ET

Davarian L. Baldwin—the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College—discusses In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Joining him in conversation is Eddie R. Cole, associate professor higher education and organizational change at UCLA and author of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom. Online via Zoom.

Tuesday, April 6, 7PM ET

Melissa Febos—author of the acclaimed memoirs Whip Smart and Abandon Me—discusses Girlhood, a blend of investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship that examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female. She will be joined in conversation by ZZ Packer, author of the beloved story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Online via Zoom.

Thursday, April 8, 7PM ET

Jeremy DeSilva—associate professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College and editor of A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution—discusses First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. Online via Zoom.

Friday, April 9, 12PM ET

Eminent legal scholars Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Philip G. Schrag discuss their latest, co-authored book, The End of Asylum, a comprehensive examination of the rise and demise of the U.S. asylum system. Online via Zoom.

Friday, April 9, 7PM ET

Acclaimed author and filmmaker Sandi Tan—director of the award-winning documentary Shirkers—discusses Lurkers, a novel of interlocking stories about a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood's public and private dramas. She will be joined in conversation by Kevin Kwan, author of the bestselling Crazy Rich Asians series and, most recently, Sex and Vanity. Online via Zoom.

Into the Video Archive

“Through her international investigation into a single photograph of the shooting of a Jewish family, Wendy Lower presents the Holocaust on the level of personal crime, uncovering the identities and stories of the victims, including the Jewish child, the killers, the neighbors, and the photographer. Seventy years after the crime, Lower, a historian dedicated to unveiling truths, solves what would otherwise have remained a ‘cold case.’ Her story is breathtaking.”—Father Patrick Desbois, author of National Jewish Book Award winner The Holocaust by Bullets

This week we hosted a virtual event with Professor Wendy Lower for her book, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed. She was joined in conversation by Joshua Rubenstein, associate, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Check out the video on the HBS Channel, where you can explore our virtual event archive, in addition to previous event recordings.

This week's new titles include new titles from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib. In case you missed it, check out our latest "New This Week" newsletter, and come browse our virtual New Arrivals shelves for all the very latest new books, updated every Tuesday!