April is National Poetry Month.
Iambic pentameter, what a treat!
Not a fan of poetry? Harrumph!
You’ve just read a poem, short and sweet.
Well, someone might be a poet — and not know it. But this librarian has no such delusions, so I hope you’ll forgive my silly little rhyme. The point is to check out a book of poetry — in April, or any ol’ time. To borrow a line from a Nat King Cole song, “kids from one to ninety-two” can enjoy every type of poetical creation. The list below has adult and juvenile poetry titles added to the library’s collection in 2020 and 2021, and I just want to point out one thing:
So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Thank you, William Carlos Williams.
- “16 Words: William Carlos Williams & ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’” written by Lisa Jean Rogers, illustrated by Chuck Groenick.
- “Black Girl, Call Home” by Jasmine Mans.
- “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde” by Audre Lorde.
- “Dearly: New Poems” by Margaret Atwood.
- “Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems” written by Irene Latham, illustrated by Amy Huntington.
- “Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution” introduction by Julia Alvarez, edited by Mark Eisner and Tina Escaja.
- “Whale Day: And Other Poems” by Billy Collins.
- “White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose” by Paul Auster.
