Poetry Month ✒️
A pril is a time for renewal, it is the start of Spring and the first buds of trees and flowers are beginning to bloom. In the literary world, we use this time to refresh our souls with poetry during National Poetry Month. From the Beat poets, we have Allen Ginsberg's Reality Sandwiches , or you can enjoy some free-form poetry from E.E. Cummings in his 100 Selected Poems . If you prefer something contemporary, please jump into Native American author Joy Harjo's How We Became Human . Celebrate the life and work of late Virginia poet Nikki Giovanni in The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni . Explore the past and come to see the connections between ancient poets and new, in the volume Japanese Women Poets , which spans centuries from ancient folk songs to contemporary works. And of course, you can embrace the force of nature that is presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman in her book of poems Call Us What We Carry . From Shakespeare to Maya Angelou, we celebrate the forms and hea...