Subject Week: “National Poetry Month”

March 30, 2026
Subject Week: “National Poetry Month”

National Poetry Month was begun by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. Its intention is to recognize and celebrate the importance of poetry and its role in our lives.

Print Books:

  1. Blake, W. (1991). Poems and Prophecies. Knopf Doubleday. PR4142 .P4647 1991
  2. Gluck, L. (2013). Poems 1962-2012. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.PS3557 .L8 C65 2013
  3. Hass, R. (1984). Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. Ecco Press. PN1271.H35 1984
  4. O’Hara, F. (1971). The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. Knopf Doubleday. PS3529.H28 1971
  5. Oliver, M. (2009). Evidence. Beacon Press. PS3565.L5 E95 2009
  6. Naruda, P. (2017). Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada. Seix Barral. PQ8097.N4 V4 2017
  7. Plath, S. (1966) Ariel. Harper & Row. PS3566.L27 A7 1966
  8. Rilke, R. M. (1991). Letters to a Young Poet. (M. D. Norton, Trans.) Norton & Company. (1929). PT2635.I65 Z53713 1993
  9. Seuss, D. (2021). Frank: Sonnets. Graywolf Press. PS3619.E94 F73 2021
  10. Siken, R. (2019). Crush. Yale University Press. PS3619.I48 A6 2019

E-books:

  1. Abdurraqib, H. (2016). The Crown Ain’t Worth Much. Button Poetry. EBSCOhost.
  2. Dickinson, E. & Miller, C. (2016). Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them. Belknap Press. EBSCOhost.
  3. Hamby, B. (2004). Babel. University of Pittsburgh Press. ProQuest.
  4. Mattix, M. (2011). Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Saying ‘I’. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ProQuest.
  5. Poe, E. A. (2017). Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems. Rockport Publishers. EBSCOhost.
  6. Powell, J. (2007). The Poetry of Sappho. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. ProQuest.
  7. Rudman, M. (2002). The Couple: The Rider Quintet, vol. 4. Wesleyan University Press. ProQuest.
  8. Whitman, W. (2018). Leaves of Grass. Floating Press. ProQuest.
  9. Wordsworth, W. (2019). The Prelude and Other Poems. Alma Books. EBSCOhost.
  10. Yeats, W. B. (2015). Selected Poems. Alma Books. EBSCOhost.