April is National Poetry Month

“National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.  Organized by the Academy of American Poets, it serves as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. The Academy's website Poets.org serves as a hub for information about local poetry events during the month, and we would like to match their goodwill by celebrating our poetry collection at the library.” ~ Poets.org
 
If you are a poetry lover, you might enjoy these books. Find these and more by visiting our catalog, or visit our Pinterest page to get book recommendations.

• A good cry : what we learn from tears and laughter - Giovanni, Nikki
• Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver - Oliver, Mary
• Use your words: a 5th book of poetry - Pickford, Susan Bassler
• The rain in Portugal : poems - Collins, Billy
• Collected poems : 1974--2004 - Dove, Rita
• Milk and honey - Kaur, Rupi
• Felicity : poems - Oliver, Mary
• The poetry of Yehuda Amichai - Amichai, Yehuda
• Wait till I'm dead : uncollected poems - Ginsberg, Allen
• Notes on the assemblage - Herrera, Juan Felipe
• Breezeway : new poems - Ashbery, John
• The complete poetry - Angelou, Maya
• Splitting an order - Kooser, Ted
• Collected poems - Strand, Mark
• Blue horses : poems - Oliver, Mary
• At the foundling hospital - Pinsky, Robert     
• The Sun and Her Flowers – Kaur, Rupi