📚 National Poetry Month

 

As John Keating says in the film Dead Poet's Society, "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

That is why we are celebrating National Poetry Month this April, dusting off some older tomes, from authors such as Keats, Yeats, and Anne Bradstreet (a colonial American poet from the 1600s), and Phyllis Wheatley (the first African American female poet from the 1700s). On the more contemporary side, we have pulled books from our collection such as Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry, Najwa Zebian's Sparks of Phoenix, and Laurie Halse Anderson's memoir written in poetry Shout. 

From Beowulf to Maya Angelou, to how to write poetry, we have got the bases covered on poetry month!