Poetry Month

Find a new poem or poet to enjoy during National Poetry Month, or learn about the history of the craft 🖊️

Updated February 9, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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The making of poetry : Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and their year of marvels
Nicolson, Adam 1957-
Paper Book
Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan," as...
A little history of poetry
Carey, John
Ebook
Beowulf : a new verse translation
Heaney, Seamus
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later...

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