Poetry in springtime — the ideal medium at the ideal moment for reawakening, solace, connection and inspiration. Here to help you savor it all is our selection of the best and most exciting poetry from around the world and across time, from voices both mainstream and marginalized, in forms ranging from traditional to experimental. Reaffirm your love for the precision of Basho’s haiku or the sumptuousness of Neruda’s odes; experience Derek Walcott’s joy in the life and language of the Caribbean; revel in the graceful lines of Ocean Vuong or the taut fire of Layli Long Soldier; or delve into Pádraig Ó Tuama’s anthology of “Poems to Open Your World” — and find, as Emily Dickinson put it, that “If I feel like the top of my head is blown off, then I know it is poetry.”

Poetry is the perfect gift for your Easter or Passover host.