Celebrate April
National Poetry Month!

Read an older poem you learned as a child, or check out some of the Library’s newer titles.

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
Kevin Young, editor
811.008035 ART

The 100 Best African American Poems: (*But I Cheated)
Nikki Giovanni, editor
811.008089 ONE

Complete Poems
Dorothy Parker
811.52 PAR

No Surrender
Ai
811.54 AI

The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart: Poems
Deborah Digges
811.54 DIG

Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
Reginald Gibbons
811.54 GIB

The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
Robert Hass
811.54 HAS

The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010
Edward Hirsch
811.54 HIR

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Mary Oliver
811.54 OLI

Morning Haiku
Sonia Sanchez
811.54 SAN

White Egrets: Poems
Derek Walcott
811.54 WAL

Wait
C.K. Williams
811.54 WIL

Approaching Ice: Poems
Elizabeth Bradfield
811.6 BRA

Driving Montana, Alone
Katie Phillips
811.6 PHI

If There Is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems
Vera Pavlova
891.715 PAV

Here
Wislawa Szymborska
891.8517 SZY

***PS: Don’t forget “Poem in Your Pocket Day” (April 14, 2011) and share a favorite with friends or co-workers.  Great examples of poems to download or print can be found at The American Academy of Poets website.

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