April is National Poetry Month
Celebrate the arrival of spring by observing National Poetry Month. Sign up to receive a poem each day during April at Poets.org . Find a poem about spring at the Poetry Foundation such as Walt Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d. Listen to poetry readings at Poetry Archive. The GSU Library also has many poetry books in traditional print form that you can check out for your own spontaneous poetry reading. Here are a few you may enjoy:
- Bicycles: love poems by Nikki Giovanni
- Essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud edited by Robert Pinsky
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: selected poems
- Leavings: poems by Wendell Berry
For more information about Poetry, consult the Poetry Research guide.