National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month! 

Bluffton Public Library staff have curated a list of poetry materials available at our library to celebrate.

To learn more about this month of celebration, visit poets.org.

FOR ADULTS

• Too much and not the mood / Durga Chew-Bose.
• Gmorning, gnight! : little pep talks for me & you / Lin-Manuel Miranda ; illustrations by Jonny Sun.
• Sailor songh [musical score] : the shanties and ballads of the high seas / Gerry Smyth ; illustrated by Jonny Hannah.
• Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie.
• An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
• On earth we're briefly gorgeous / Ocean Vuong.
• Elegy for a broken machine : poems / Patrick Phillips.
• The sun and her flowers / Rupi Kaur.
• Home body / Rupi Kaur.
• Earthling : poems / James Longenbach.
• Prelude to bruise : poetry / Saeed Jones.
• The crying book / Heather Christle.
• Tales of two Americas : stories of inequality in a divided nation / edited by John Freeman.
• How to be drawn / Terrance Hayes.
• Sight lines / Arthur Sze.
• Calling a wolf a wolf / Kaveh Akbar.
• Deaf republic : poems / Ilya Kaminsky.
• Voyage of the Sable Venus : and other poems / Robin Coste Lewis.
• Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz.
• In the still of the night / Dara Wier.
• Dissolve / Sherwin Bitsui.
• The poetry and prose of E. E. Cummings / Robert E. Wegner.
• Look : poems / Solmaz Sharif.
• I know your kind : poems / William Brewer.
• The abridged history of rainfall / Jay Hopler.
• Felicity / Mary Oliver.
• Break your glass slippers / Amanda Lovelace ; [illustrations by Janaina Medeiros ; foreword by Nikita Gill].
• The witch doesn't burn in this one / Amanda Lovelace.
• The princess saves herself in this one / Amanda Lovelace.
• The mermaid's voice returns in this one / Amanda Lovelace.
• Violet bent backwards over the grass [compact disc] / Lana Del Rey.
• The tradition / Jericho Brown.
• Be with / Forrest Gander ; with six photographs by Michael Flomen.
• Bright dead things : poems / by Ada Limón.
• Alone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19 / edited by Jennifer Haupt ; illustrations, Ailsa Weisnewski.
• New poets of Native nations / edited by Heid E. Erdrich.
• Fantasia for the man in blue / Tommye Blount.
• Archeophonics / Peter Gizzi.
• Collected poems : 1974--2004 / Rita Dove.
• Dearly : new poems / Margaret Atwood.
• There are more beautiful things than Beyonce / Morgan Parker.
• Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei : (with more ways) / Eliot Weinberger ; afterword by Octavio Paz.
• Be recorder : poems / Carmen Gimenez Smith.
• Black aperture : poems / Matt Rasmussen.
• Incarnadine : poems / Mary Szybist.
• The performance of becoming human / Daniel Borzutzky.
• African-American poetry : an anthology, 1773-1927 / edited by Joan R. Sherman.
• 81 famous poems [book on CD] : an audio companion to the Norton anthology of poetry, third edition, regular and shorter.
• The best American poetry 2015 / guest editor, Sherman Alexie ; series editor, David Lehman.
• City Lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
• Bruce Springsteen's America : the people listening, a poet singing / Robert Coles.
• Red comet : the short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath / Heather Clark.
• My wars are laid away in books : the life of Emily Dickinson / Alfred Habegger.
• The complete poems of Emily Dickinson / edited by Thomas H. Johnson.
• Edgar Allan Poe : the fever called living / Paul Collins.
• The poet and the vampyre : the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters / Andrew McConnell Stott.
• Robert Browning : selected poems.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning : selected poems.
• Phenomenal woman : four poems celebrating women / Maya Angelou.
• John Donne : selected poems.
• W.B. Yeats : selected poems.
• The selected poems of Robert Frost.
• Lord Byron : selected poems.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley : selected poems.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson : selected poems.
• William Blake : selected poems.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : selected poems.
• John Keats : selected poems.
• The best poems of the English language : from Chaucer through Robert Frost / selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom.
• William Wordsworth : selected poems.
• The selected poems of Carl Sandburg.
• A family affair : poems / by Ruth Naylor.
• Abandoned homeland : poems / by Jeff Gundy.
• Somewhere near Defiance : poems / Jeff Gundy.
• Lovingly : poems for all seasons.
• Collected poems, 1953-1993 / John Updike.
• Edgar Allan Poe : complete poems.
• The storm king [book on CD] : stories, narratives, poems : spoken word set to a world of music / Pete Seeger ; presented by Jeff Haynes.
• We begin in gladness : how poets progress : essays / Craig Morgan Teicher.

FOR TEENS & TWEENS

• Poetry / Mark Mussari.
• Early British poetry : "words that burn" / Paula Johanson.
• Early American poetry, "beauty in words" / Stephanie Buckwalter.
• For everyone / Jason Reynolds.
• I'm nobody! Who are you? : poems / by Emily Dickinson ; edited by Edric S. Mesmer ; with an introduction by Virginia Euwer Wolff.
• The poet X / a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo.
• Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty / Christine Heppermann.
• Shout : a poetry memoir / by Laurie Halse Anderson.

FOR CHILDREN

• Keep a pocket in your poem : classic poems and playful parodies / written and selected by J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Johanna Wright.
• Sail away / poems by Langston Hughes ; art by Ashley Bryan.
• Poems aloud / [text, Joseph Coelho ; illustrations, Daniel Gray-Barnett].
• A song about myself / a poem by John Keats ; illustrated by Chris Raschka.
• A beautiful day in the neighborhood : the poetry of Mister Rogers / lyrics by Fred Rogers ; illustrations by Luke Flowers.
• Wham! it's a poetry jam : discovering performance poetry / by Sara Holbrook ; foreword by Jane Yolen.
• National Geographic book of nature poetry : more than 200 poems with photographs that float, zoom, and bloom! / edited by J. Patrick Lewis, former U.S. Children's Poet Laureate.
• Every month is a new year : celebrations around the world / by Marilyn Singer ; collages by Susan L. Roth.
• A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet / Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Paul Lee.
• Just like me / Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
• Voices from the March on Washington / poems by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon.
• Thunder underground / poems by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Josée Masse.
• Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets / Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth ; illustrated Ekua Holmes.
• Poetree / Shauna LaVoy Reynolds ; illustrated by Shahrzad Maydani.
• Poems to learn by heart / [selected by] Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
• Jump back, Paul [book on CD] : [the life and poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar] / Sally Derby.
• Edgar Allan Poe's pie : math puzzlers in classic poems / J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Michael Slack.
• Tomie dePaola's book of poems.
• You have to write / by Janet S. Wong ; illustrated by Theresa Flavin.
• Snow birds / words by Kirsten Hall ; pictures by Jenni Desmond.
• Phrases of the moon : lunar poems / by J. Patrick Lewis ; illustrated by Jori van der Linde.
• Poem-mobiles : crazy car poems / J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian ; pictures by Jeremy Holmes.
• The poet's dog / Patricia MacLachlan.
• Dave, the potter : artist, poet, slave / by Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.
• Stella Endicott and the anything-is-possible poem / Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen.
• Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
• Wet cement : a mix of concrete poems / Bob Raczka.
• Enormous smallness : a story of E.E. Cummings / by Matthew Burgess ; illustrations by Kris Di Giacomo.
• No more poems! : a book in verse that just gets worse / by Rhett Miller ; art by Dan Santat.
• The death of the hat : a brief history of poetry in 50 objects / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Chris Raschka.
• Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet / Joyce Sidman ; illustrations by Miren Asiain Lora.
• The lost words : a spell book / Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris.
• Wee rhymes : baby's first poetry book / Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Jane Dyer.
• No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history / edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley ; illustrated by Jeanette Bradley.
• Maya Angelou / written by Lisbeth Kaiser ; illustrated by by Leire Salaberria.
• Hard-boiled bugs for breakfast : and other tasty poems / Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by Ruth Chan.
• When green becomes tomatoes / poems for all seasons by Julie Fogliano ; pictures by Julie Morstad.
• Chicken Lily / Lori Mortensen ; illustrated by Nina Victor Crittenden.
• Fancy Nancy, poet extraordinaire! / written by Jane O'Connor ; illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.
• The poetry of US / edited by J. Patrick Lewis.
• Lullaby & kisses sweet [board book] : poems to love with your baby / selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Alyssa Nassner.
• Bigfoot is missing! / by J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt ; illustrated by MinaLima.
• No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history / edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley ; illustrated by Jeanette Bradley.
• Chuckles and smiles : children's poems / written by Raven Howell ; illustrated by Jordan Wray.
• Classic poetry : an illustrated collection / selected by Michael Rosen ; pictures by Paul Howard.
• Home run, touchdown, basket, goal! : sports poems for little athletes / Leo Landry.
• Hypnotize a tiger : poems about just about everything / Calef Brown.
• Woke : a young poet's call to justice / Mahogany L. Browne, with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood ; foreword by Jason Reynolds ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.
• The palm of my heart : poetry by African American children / edited by Davida Adedjouma ; illustrated by Gregory Christie ; introduction by Lucille Clifton.
• Bravo! : poems about amazing Hispanics / Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rafael López.

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