Celebrating National Poetry Month
If you’re like a lot of people, you’ve probably heard that poetry is boring. This April, we at the Krupp Library are here to prove that idea wrong. The selection of books in our National Poetry Month exhibit covers all sorts of topics from all sorts of poets. You’re bound to find a poem you connect with—maybe even two or three.
Here’s a small sampling of what we have on offer:
I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou (1990, Random House).
We Are Mermaids: Poems by Stephanie Burt (2022, Graywolf Press).
My House: Poems by Nikki Giovanni (1972, William Morrow & Company Inc.).
Hijito by Carlos Andrés Gómez (2019, Platypus Press).
The Hill We Climb: an Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman (2021, VIking).
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo (2015, W.W. Norton & Company).
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (2015, Andrews McMeel Publishing).
Dothead: Poems by Amit Majmudar (2016, Alfred A. Knopf).
The Ground: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (2014, Graywolf Press).
For those who prefer a more modern reading experience, we also have plenty of poetry ebooks available on our website!