NATIONAL POETRY MONTH April 21, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in New books in the Library, Web Resources.trackback
In case you somehow escaped hearing the news, April is National Poetry Month! We’ve boosted our collection of poetry anthologies in the last few months, including:
- Good poems; selected by Garrison Keillor (811.008 GOO)
- 100 great poems of the 20th century; Mark Strand, editor (821.9 ONE)
- The Norton anthology of poetry, shorter 5th ed. (821.008 NOR)
- Poetry 180; Billy Collins, editor (811.6 POE)
- 180 more; Billy Collins, editor (811.6 ONE)
- The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry (821.008 NOR)
- The Oxford book of American poetry (811.008 OXF)
We also have a number of books of poems by a single author, ranging from Shakespeare’s sonnets (822.32 SHA) to Walt Whitman (811.3 WHI) to John Keats (821.78 KEA) to Naomi Shihab Nye (811.54 NYE) to my personal favorite, Carl Sandburg (811.54 SAN).
Online resources for poetry abound. Here are just a few:
- Poetry 180 (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/). This site was started by Billy Collins when he was Poet Laureante of the U.S.
- An incomplete history of Slam : a biography of an evolving poetry movement (http://www.e-poets.net/library/slam). Res’ Poetry Slam team is amazing! Here’s a short history of how the whole slam experience began.
- Poets.org (http://www.poets.org). From the Academy of American poets. Find poems, events, podcasts, and more. You can even access the poems on your mobile device — but of course, students, not from school! The site has a list of “30 ways to celebrate” National Poetry Month, including Put a Poem on the Pavement and Recite a Poem to Family and Friends.
- The Writer’s Almanac (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org). This is the website for the daily public radio broadcast and includes both poetry and history.
- American Verse Project (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/). An electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
- Poetry Archives (http://www.emule.com/poetry/) provides a database of classical poems.
Individual poets often have their own website, including:
- Janet Wong (http://www.janetwong.com)
- Jimmy Santiago Baca (http://jimmysantiagobaca.com)
- Nikki Giovanni (http://nikki-giovanni.com)
If looking at books or websites is just too much work for you, stop and read the “Poem of the Week” posted in the hall outside the Res Library. If you started in August, you would have read over 35 poems by the time summer vacation rolls around and it would only have taken you a minute or two each week.
I could go on and on about poetry resources, but these are just a few ideas to get you started! Let us know how you’re celebrating National Poetry Month and share your favorite book, poet, or web site with us.
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