Be Poetic in April!

Join us as we celebrate the beauty, music, and truth of poetry during National Poetry Month! Each April, schools, libraries, bookstores, publishers and individuals join the Academy of American Poets to celebrate poets and their poems.

The Academy of American Poetry, online at poets.org, offers several great ways to focus on poetry. For example, you can search poets.org any day of the year to find complete poems and short biographies of American and international poets. However, my favorite feature on poets.org is Poem-A-Day, a service where you sign up to receive a new poem by email each day of April.

The Blume Library offers online access to poetry as well. You can find complete poems when you search either the 20^th Century American Poetry database or 20^th Century English Poetry database. There are also hundreds of books of poetry and poetry criticism in our NetLibrary e-book collection.

For those of you who like to hold a book in your hands…the library also has a large print collection of poetry which can be located by searching the library catalog.

So take a little time to experience poetry this spring. And don’t forget to smell the roses too!