National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month (April) is a time to honor the many contributions and achievements of poets throughout the world. The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Learning Resource Center is celebrating this important month with the following activities and materials:
Introductory Information about National Poetry Month
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month (NPM) brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations celebrate this month with readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.
Selected Poetry Websites
A compilation of websites focused on poetry and the celebration of National Poetry Month.
Bibliography
A list of some of our many library items related to poetry.
Bluegrass Community & Technical College Learning Resource Center
| Author(s): Sullivan, Charles, 1933- Title: America in poetry: with paintings, drawings, photographs, and other works of art Call Number: PS584 .A38 1988 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Emrich, Duncan, 1908-1977. Title: American folk poetry: an anthology Call Number: PS593.L8 E5 1974 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Cronyn, George W. (George William), b. 1888. Title: Path on the rainbow. American Indian poetry: an anthology of songs and chants Call Number: PM197.E3 P38 1991 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Foerster, Norman, 1887- Title: American poetry and prose Call Number: PS507 .F6 1970b Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Halpern, Daniel, 1945- Title: The American poetry anthology Call Number: PS615 .A4 1975b Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Title: American poetry: the nineteenth century. Call Number: PS607 .A56 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Title: American poetry. The twentieth century. Call Number: PS613 .A4 2000 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Goldensohn, Lorrie. Title: American war poetry: an anthology Call Number: PS595.W36 A46 2006 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Pinsky, Robert. Dietz, Maggie. Favorite Poem Project (U.S.) Title: Americans' favorite poems: the Favorite Poem Project anthology Call Number: PN6101 .A46 2000 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Farrell, Kate. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Title: Art & love: an illustrated anthology of love poetry Call Number: PN6110.L6 A66 1990 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Heaney, Seamus. Title: Beowulf. English & English (Old English) Beowulf: a new verse translation Call Number: PE1583 .H43 2000 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Bloom, Harold. Title: The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Frost Call Number: PR1175 .B4566 2004 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: McCartney, Paul. Other Author(s): Mitchell, Adrian, 1932- Title: Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics, 1965-1999 Call Number: PR6063.C354 B58 2001 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Everson, William, 1912-1994. Other Author(s): Gelpi, Albert. Title: The blood of the poet: selected poems Call Number: PS3509.V65 B52 1994 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Harrison, G. B. (George Bagshawe), 1894-1991. Title: A Book of English poetry: Chaucer to Rossetti Call Number: PR1175 .B648 1950 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980. Title: The branch will not break: poems Call Number: PS3545.R58 B7 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Chang, Victoria M., 1970- Title: Circle Call Number: PS3603.H3575 C57 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Harmon, William, 1938- Title: Concise Columbia book of poetry. The classic hundred: all-time favorite poems Call Number: PR1175 .C6443 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Title: Collected poems, 1909-1962 Call Number: PS3509.L43 A17 1970 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Berry, Wendell, 1934- Title: Collected poems, 1957-1982 Call Number: PS3552.E75 A17 1985 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Other Author(s): Burt, John, 1955- Title: The collected poems of Robert Penn Warren Call Number: PS3545.A748 A17 1998 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Title: Collected poems, prose & plays Call Number: PS3511.R94 A6 1995 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Plath, Sylvia. Other Author(s): Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Title: The collected poems Call Number: PS3566.L27 A17 1981 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Giovanni, Nikki. Title: The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 Call Number: PS3557.I55 A17 2003 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Bukowski, Charles. Other Author(s): Martin, John, 1930- Title: Come on in!: new poems Call Number: PS3552.U4 C57 2006 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Title: The complete poems of Carl Sandburg Call Number: PS3537 .A618 1970 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Other Author(s): Johnson, Thomas H. Title: Complete poems of Emily Dickinson Call Number: PS1541 .A1 1960b Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Poulin, A. Title: Contemporary American poetry Call Number: PS613 .C66 1996 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Cucinella, Catherine. Title: Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide / Call Number: PS151 .C665 2002 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Reference |
| Other Author(s): Bradley, Anthony, 1942- Title: Contemporary Irish poetry Call Number: PR8858 .C65 1988 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Boes, Don, 1958- Other Author(s): Ammons, A. R., 1926- Title: The eighth continent Call Number: PS3552.O423 E34 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906-1984. Other Author(s): Taylor, Geoffrey, 1900- Title: English love poems Call Number: PR1184 .E54 1957 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Stryk, Lucien. Title: The Gift of great poetry Call Number: PR1175 .G46 1992 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Berry, Wendell, 1934- Title: Given: new poems Call Number: PS3552.E75 G58 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Keillor, Garrison Title: Good poems for hard times Call Number: PS586 .G59 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Niatum, Duane, 1938- Title: Harper's anthology of 20th century Native American poetry Call Number: PS591.I55 H37 1988 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Vendler, Helen Hennessy Title: The Harvard book of contemporary American poetry Call Number: PS615 .H37 1985 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 Title: Idylls of the king: and a selection of poems Call Number: PR5558 .A1 1961 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Title: The Inferno of Dante: a new verse translation Call Number: PQ4315.2 .P47 1994 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Acosta Hernandez, Juvenal. Title: Light from a nearby window: contemporary Mexican poetry Call Number: PQ7263.E5 L54 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Lovin, Christina. Title: Little fires: poems Call Number: PS3562.O875 L58 2007 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Tate, James, 1943- Title: Memoir of the hawk: poems Call Number: PS3570.A8 M46 2002 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Worley, Jeff, 1947- Other Author(s): Olsen, Lance, 1956- Title: Natural selections: poems Call Number: PS3573.O6928 N37 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Lee, A. Robert, 1941- Title: Nineteenth-century American poetry Call Number: PS316 .N56 1985 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: West, Don. Title: No lonesome road: selected prose and poems Call Number: PS3545.E8279 A6 2004 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Dove, Rita. Title: On the bus with Rosa Parks: poems Call Number: PS3554.O884 O52 1999 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Worley, Jeff, 1947- Title: The only time there is: poems Call Number: PS3573.O6928 O5 1995 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Erdrich, Louise. Title: Original fire: selected and new poems Call Number: PS3555.R42 O75 2003 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Hunt, John Dixon. Title: The Oxford book of garden verse Call Number: PR1195.G2 O96 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. Title: Poems and sketches of E.B. White. Call Number: PS3545.H5187 A6 1981 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Title: The poems Call Number: PR5900 .A3 1983 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Lanier, Parks, 1944- Title: The poetics of Appalachian space Call Number: PS286.A6 P64 1991 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Boes, Don, 1958- Title: Railroad crossing: poems Call Number: PS3552.O423 R35 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Van Dyne, Susan R. Title: Revising life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems Call Number: PS3566.L27 Z947 1993 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Erickson, Lee. Title: Robert Browning: his poetry and his audiences Call Number: PR4238 .E7 1984 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Other Author(s): Cook, Ferris. Title: The rose window and other verse from New poems Call Number: PT2635.I65 R3813 1997 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Sanchez, Sonia, 1935- Title: Shake loose my skin: new and selected poems Call Number: PS3569.A468 S53 1999 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Erskine, Albert. Title: Six centuries of great poetry Call Number: PR1175 .S59 1992 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Title: Sonnets from the Portuguese and other love poems Call Number: PR4189 .A1 1990 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Chappell, Fred, 1936- Title: Spring garden: new and selected poems Call Number: PS3553.H298 S69 1995 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Lifshin, Lyn. Title: Tangled vines: a collection of mother and daughter poems Call Number: PS595.M65 T3 1992 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Collins, Billy. Title: The trouble with poetry and other poems Call Number: PS3553.O47478 T76 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Schwartz, Howard, 1945- Rudolf, Anthony, 1942- Title: Voices within the ark: the modern Jewish poets Call Number: PN6109.5 .V6 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Rezmerski, John Calvin. Title: What do I know?: new & selected poems Call Number: PS3568.E95 W48 2000 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Lovin, Christina. Title: What we burned for warmth: poems Call Number: PS3562.O875 W43 2006 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Jia, Dao, 779-843. Other Author(s): O'Connor, Mike. Title: When I find you again, it will be in mountains: Selected poems of Chia Tao Call Number: PL2677.C42 A26 2000 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Still, James, 1906-2001. Title: The wolfpen poems Call Number: PS3537.T5377 W6 1986 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Author: Stevenson, Jane, 1959- Title: Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century Call Number: PA8050 .S74 2005 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
| Other Author(s): Oakes, Elizabeth. Olmstead, Jane. Western Kentucky University. Title: Writing who we are: poems by Kentucky feminists Call Number: PS589 .W75 1999 Location: Bluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks |
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