April is National Poetry Month, the most widely celebrated literary event in the world! Celebrate with the MIT Libraries by checking out some poems, literary magazines, books about poetry, translations, and more — personally selected by staff across the Libraries:
- Urban tumbleweed, Harryette Mullen
- Collected poems, Jean Toomer
- Notes on the assemblage, Juan Felipe Herrera
- Blue horses, Mary Oliver
- Haiku: an anthology of Japanese poems, edited by Stephen Addiss, Fumiko Yamamoto, & Akira Yamamoto
- House of lords and commons, Ishion Hutchinson
- Sappho: a new translation of the complete works, Diane J. Rayor & André Lardinois
- Bestiary, Donika Kelly
- Reconnaissance, Carl Phillips
- Hardly war, Don Mee Choi
- Milk and honey, Rupi Kaur
- Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein
- Absolute solitude, Dulce Maria Loynaz; translated by James O’Connor
- Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop
- The weary blues, Langston Hughes
- Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
- Collected poems, Mark Strand
- Then come back: the lost Neruda poems, Pablo Neruda; translated by Forrest Gander
- Starve the poets!, Yi Sha; translated by Simon Patton & Tao Naikan
- From the book of changes, Stephen Tapscott
- Howl: a graphic novel, Allen Ginsberg; animated by Eric Drooker
- The poem is you: sixty contemporary American poems and how to read them, Stephen Burt
- Poet’s choice, Edward Hirsch
- Best American Poetry
- The Lyric
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Poetry
- Poets & Writers
Most poetry is housed in Hayden Library, but you may request books for pick-up at any library through Your Account. Is there a poet or anthology the Libraries do not currently own? Add it to our collection using the Suggest a Purchase form. Happy reading!
