April 30, 2010
Has it been a month already?? Check your calendar, poetry fiends, it seems that it has. April is over, May flowers (and their attendant pilgrims) are on the way, and National Poetry Month is history for another year. We hope that you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have, and that you’ll continue to read, […]
April 30, 2010
Reading poetry is not always easy. It’s a kind of writing that most of us aren’t used to seeing very often. There are many different types of poems, structures, rhyme schemes, free verse, prose poetry, all with different forms, all of which require a different way of reading. Words dance around on the page. Line […]
April 30, 2010
April 18 by Sylvia Plath the slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull and if my stomach would contract because of some explicable phenomenon such as pregnancy or constipation I would not remember you or that because of sleep infrequent as a moon of greencheese that because of food nourishing […]
April 29, 2010
The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
April 28, 2010
Poetry month has been fun, hasn’t it? I’m feeling kind of bereft now that April’s almost over. A great way to keep in touch with poetry is the Favorite Poem Project. Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, founded the Favorite Poem Project shortly after the Library of Congress appointed him to […]
April 28, 2010
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my […]
April 27, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed learning about famous and not-so-famous poets in doing research for National Poetry Month. I came across two wonderful collections which are designed to introduce the reader to classic poems and provide some insights into the poets’ lives. The first one is 100 Essential Modern Poems, selected and introduced […]
April 27, 2010
Did you know that Thornton Wilder is the only writer to have won the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and drama? You’ll learn this and other fascinating information from Brad Hooper’s article on The Bridge of San Luis Rey in the April 15, 2010 issue of Booklist. Laura H., Reader’s Services
April 27, 2010
Patrons at the Baltimore Public Library can now check out a copy of “Catcher in the Rye” as well as a loaf of rye bread. The city’s Virtual Supermarket Project was designed to promote healthy eating while addressing the inner city’s problem of “food deserts.” Read (or listen) to NPR’s “All Things Considered” report here. Barbara L., Reader’s Services
April 27, 2010
Aspiration by Langston Hughes I wonder how it feels To do cart wheels? I sure would like To know. To walk a high wire Is another desire, In this world before I go. This poem was selected by Andy R. (Reader’s Services) Poetry Copyright Notice
