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Celebrating National Poetry Month: Home

Join us on Earth Day for our open mic poetry reading!

On writing poems

The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
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Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within by Kim Addonizio
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A Poet's Craft by Annie Finch
Call Number: PN1059.A9 F56 2012, Basement
Next Line, Please by David Lehman (Editor); Angela Ball (As told to); Robert Wilson (Foreword by)

Nature poets

William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth; Oliver Ford Davies (Narrated by); Jasper Britton (Narrated by)
John Keats: Complete Poems by John Keats; Jack Stillinger (Editor)
Call Number: PR4831 .S75 1982, Third Floor
The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Mitchley
Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
Gary Snyder: Collected Poems by Gary Snyder; Anthony Hunt (Editor)
Call Number: PS3569.N88 A6 2022, Third floor
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
Call Number: PS3552.E75 A6 2012

In honor of Earth Day

More collections from poets who celebrate the natural world

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon (Editor)
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The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
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Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Laughter Before Sleep by Robert Pack
Jim Harrison: Complete Poems by Jim Harrison; Terry Tempest Williams (Introduction by); Joseph Bednarik (Editor)
The End of Michelangelo by Dan Gerber
The Flicker Tree by Nancy Holmes
Winterkill by Todd Davis
The Afterlife of Trees by Brian Bartlett
Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature by Denise Levertov
Call Number: PS3562.E8876 L48 1997; Third floor