April is National Poetry Month! Poetry month can be celebrated in many different ways from sharing poems with friends, carring around your faveorite poem in your pocket, and checking out new poets! We’ve gathered several collections, from modern to classic poetry for you to share and enjoy! Join us on April 24th, as we celebrate poetry month with poems in Classical Music.
Modern Poets
Cynthia Cruz, Back to the Woods
Leila Chatti, You Don’t Have to be Everything
Natalie Diaz, Postcoloniel Love Poem
Cathy Park Hong, Dance, dance revolution
Terrance Hayes, Watch Your Language
Sarah Kay, All our wild wonder
Amanda Gorman, Call us what we carry
Eileen Myles, A “working life”
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of Sable Venus and other poems
Danez Smith, Bluff
Maggie Smith, Good Bones
Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
Gregory Pardlo, Specitral evidence
Ocean Vuong, Time is a mother
Joy Harjo, Catching the light
Classic Poets
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Langston Hughes, Blues in stereo
Robert Frost, sixteen poems to learn by heart
Emily Dickinson, The pocket Emily Dickinson
Gwendolyn Brooks, The essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath, Complete Works
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems
Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Louise Gluck, Winter recipes from the collective
ee cummings, E.E. Cummings: a miscellany
Rita Dove, playlist for the Apocalypse
Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Sam Taylor Coleridge, Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gertrude Stein, a rose is a rose is a rose
William Blake, the complete poems
William Wordsworth, selected poems
Robert Burns, selected poems
Walt Whitman, the portable Walt Whitman
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