For this week’s National Poetry Month Poet-themed staff pick of the week, we are highlighting 3 prominent and very different poets. One is the widely acclaimed Shel Silverstein, the immortal bard William Shakespeare, and the popular children’s poet Jack Prelutsky.
Silverstein is well known for his children’s poetry collections A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends. You can check out these and some of his other works here.
We’re pretty sure that everyone has read at least one piece of Shakespeare’s work, or at least seen one of the many, many movies based on his work. The Bard really needs no introduction, so we’ll just connect you to our catalog.
You may or may not know Jack Prelutsky, who writes wonderful children’s poetry like Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast. He’s quite prolific and we have quite a few of his works in the library.
We hope you enjoy these poets of the week! We’ll leave you with this:
Where the Sidewalk Ends
from the book “Where the Sidewalk Ends” (1974)
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.
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