i don't pay attention to the world ending

it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.
–Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

It’s National Poetry Month! Here are some things you can do to celebrate, as suggested by the Academy of American Poets:

• Sign-up for a daily poem here.
• Subscribe to the Poem-a-Day podcast.
• Browse poems for kids, and share them with the keiki in your life!
• Create an online anthology of your favorite poems on Poets.org.
• Read essays about poets and/or poetry.
• Honor Mother Nature by reading these poems about Earth Day.

Library Resources

We have a lot of poetry available to you! Check out:

• the following ebooks:
  • The Routledge anthology of poets on poets poetic responses to English poetry from Chaucer to Yeats (link)
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (link)
  • Paradise Lost (link)
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets (link)
  • No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay (link)
  • The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (link)
  • Little Anodynes by Jon Pineda (link)
  • Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall (link)
  • Slow War by Benjamin Hertwig (link)
• Browse poems that were published in American Poetry Review
• Read essays and critiques about Victorian Poetry