Celebrate National Poetry Month this April

Celebrate National Poetry Month this April

April 3, 2023

April is National Poetry Month. Explore a new author or style of poetry by checking out one of these selections from our catalog:

Classics 

• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (first edition)
• T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
• Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost
• Maya Angelou, Poems
• Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Contemporary Poetry

• Louise Glück, A Village Life
• Saeed Jones, Alive at the End of the World
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
• Billy Collins, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
• Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
• Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind
• Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Children’s Poetry

• Jack Prelutsky, My Dog May be a Genius 
• Where We Come From
• Elizabeth Garton Scanlon, A Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes
• J. Patrick Lewis, A Hippopotamusn’t and Other Animal Verses
• Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

Poetry Anthologies

• The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine
• American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
• Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry 
• Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
• Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry

You can also explore the Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives’ collection of the Friends of the Scranton Public Library’s Poetry Series, featuring historical recordings of readings from poets like Carolyn Forché, Tess Gallagher, and Louise Glück.