#fridayreads: World Poetry Day

 

March 21 is World Poetry Day.

Who cares, you may say.

Poems are old-fashioned and difficult to understand.

Jessup Library would like to give you a hand.

We have poetry books from all corners of the (round) globe.

We even have electronic books so you can read at home in your robe.

Would you be willing to try a few?

Here is a selected list for you:

• Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems
  
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  
• The Complete Poetical Works of Keats
  
• The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
  
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson
  
• Iraqi Poetry Today
• Wordsworth and Coleridge
  
• Anne Sexton: Complete Poems (electronic book)
  
• Modern Sudanese Poetry (electronic book)
  
• The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry