April Is Poetry Month

Celebrate Poetry Month with these books 📜🖋️

Updated March 10, 2025
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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You, too, could write a poem
Orr, David 1974-
Paper Book
A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place   Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands...
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Harjo, Joy.
Paper Book
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining...
I had a brother once : a poem, a memoir
Mansbach, Adam 1976-
Paper Book
A brilliant, genre-defying work-both memoir and epic poem-about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss "A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone... a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life...

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