Celebrate National Poetry Month
Rebecca Feind, Reference Librarian

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, readers, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.  Carrier Library will be celebrating National Poetry Month by displaying poems and books of poetry.   

If you would like to read more poetry, try current issues of the following literary journals, available at the Periodicals Desk on the second floor:   

• American Poetry Review

• Field

• Flyway

• Missouri Review

• Parnassus

• POETRY

• Poetry East

• Shenandoah

Here are some poetry sites to visit virtually as well:

• http://www.poets.org  The website for the Academy of American Poets

• http://www.poems.com/home.htm  Poetry Daily—a new poem served up every day. 

• http://www.favoritepoem.org/  The online archive of Americans reading their favorite poems.

• http://epc.buffalo.edu/  The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo.

• http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/  The American Verse Project at University of Michigan.

• http://webdelsol.com/Five_Points/content.htm  Five Points, a journal of literature and art.