Take a break from your studies to celebrate National Poetry Month by checking out some poetry, personally selected by staff across the Libraries:
- American smooth, Rita Dove
- Appalachian elegy : poetry and place, bell hooks
- Birds of paradise, Christine Kitano
- Drone, Allan Popa
- Ex Machina, Jonathan Ball
- Flowers from hell, Nguyen Chi Thien; translated by Huynh Sanh Thong
- Four from Japan, translated by Sawako Nakayasu
- Here, Wislawa Szymborska; translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Baranczak
- In the presence of absence, Marmoud Darwish; translated by Sinan Antoon
- Interpretive work, Elizabeth Bradfield
- Inventory, Dionne Brand
- Leadbelly, Tyehimba Jess
- Nature poem, Tommy Pico
- Oval hour, Kathleen Peirce
- Poems of Akhmatova, Anna Andreeva Akhmatova; translated by Stanley Kunitz
- S.O.S : poems 1961-2013, Amiri Baraka; selected by Paul Vangelisti
- Selected poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
- Torn, C. Dale Young
- When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities, Chen Chen
- Why poetry, Matthew Zapruder
- Writing the real : a bilingual anthology of contemporary French poetry, edited by Nina Parish and Emma Wagstaff
Most poetry is housed in Hayden Library, but you may request books for pick up at any library through Your Account. If you need help finding a book, stop by the Information Desk and ask a staff member.
Want more poetry? Check out last year’s list or suggest a purchase to add to our collection. Happy reading!
