Celebrate April-the month of poetry, aquariums and zoos- with a selection of poems to amuse and enlighten. Hear Cool Women reading poems of birds and beasties, wild and tame, common and rare. Each performance has a theme. Each poet brings poems, but does not know what the others have brought. […]
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April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, drop by the teen room all month long and create unique, original poetry using words and letters cut from magazines. Will you make a sonnet, Haiku, or epic poem? Or maybe throw out all the rules and go free verse? Want to share […]
In celebration of National Poetry Month this week’s staff pick is the works of E.E. Cummings. Known for his experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, Cummings was the second most widely read poet in the US at the time of his death and remains one of the world’s most […]
Sadly, National Poetry Month is almost over. Hopefully you’ve taken some time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not […]
The incomparable Maya Angelou is this week’s Poet of the Week (in honor of National Poetry Month). She’s been a staff pick before, and she absolutely deserves to be again. An American author, activist, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books […]
It’s National Poetry Month! It’s time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not a problem. Try a novel […]
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 […]
It’s National Poetry Month, and who better to be the poet of the week then one of the most popular poets in America. Billy Collins has said about his poetry that it is “suburban, it’s domestic, it’s middle class, and it’s sort of unashamedly that.” Accessible, delightful, and celebrating and mourning the […]
It’s National Poetry Month! It’s time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not a problem. Try a novel […]
Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, most commonly referred to as Rumi, was a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi Mystic, among other things. His poetry covers a wide range of topics, and are amazingly relatable and full of advice centuries later. These two collections showcase this magnificent poet’s work. […]