April is National Poetry Month! Check out our staff’s favorites below, and click the link to place a hold in our catalog.
Sarah V:
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Honorable Mention: Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón (available on Hoopla)
Jessica:
Legacy by Nikki Grimes
Sean:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Alice:
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
Cathy:
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
Katy K.:
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Microscope by Maxine Kumin
Honorable mention: When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano
Dana:
Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Charlie:
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman (available on Hoopla)