April 1:
Recommended by the Poetry Committee
Mostly I'd like to be a spider web by C.T. Salazar
April 2:
Recommended by C.T. Salazar, Mississippi Poet
In the Library by Charles Simic
April 3:
Recommended by Dr. Catherine Pierce, Mississippi Poet Laureate, English Department
here yet be dragons by Lucille Clifton
April 4:
Recommended by Dr. Kelly Marsh, English department
You Are Late by Natasha Tretheway, former 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
April 5:
Recommended by Sam Kealhofer, Poet and English Alum
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson by Sam Kealhofer
April 7:
Recommended by Anita Winger, Automation Systems Manager/ Library Web Technologies
I Opened a Book by Julia Donaldson
April 8:
Recommended by Crystal Scott, Library Associate/ MSU Libraries
There is No Frigate Like a Book (1286) by Emily Dickinson
April 9:
Recommended by the Poetry Month Committee
Runny's Heading Habit's by Shel Silverstein
April 10:
Recommended by Dr. Peter DeGabriel, English Department
Amoretti I: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands by Edmund Spencer
April 11:
Recommended by Corinne Kennedy, Design Libraries/ MSU Libraries
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Library by Walt Whitman
April 12:
Recommended by Joy Dubose, Projects Cataloger for Special Collections
Library by Yuriy Andrukhovych/ Ukrainian Poet
April 13:
Recommended by C.T. Salazar, Mississippi poet
The Library of Bable by Alison C. Rolins
April 14:
Recommended by the Poetry Month Committee
Library by Brian Culhane
April 15:
Recommended by Corinne Kennedy, Design Librarian
A Valentine's Poem for Architecture Librarians by ChatGBT
April 16:
Recommended by Jennifer McGillan, Coordinator of Manuscripts for Special Collections
Photo of Melville; Back Room, Old Bookstore by Stephen Sandy
April 17:
Recommended by Julie Shedd, Web Technologies Director, MSU Libraries
The Crybaby at the Library by Caroline Knox
April 18:
Recommended by Dr. Catherine Pierce, Mississippi Poet Laureate, English Department
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
April 19:
Recommended by the Poetry Month Committee
Overdues by Shel Silverstein
April 20:
Recommended by C.T. Salazar, Mississippi Poet
I Have a Time Machine by Brenda Shaughnessy
April 21:
Recommended by Julie Shedd, Web Technologies Director, MSU Libraries
[lady in brown] "de library waz right down from de trolley tracks" by Ntozake Shange
April 22:
Recommended by Corinne Kennedy, Design Librarian
The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space by Jeffery Skinner
April 23:
Recommended by Lara Taylor, Library Associate in the CAAD Library
Reading Goodnight Moon by Maureen E. Doallas
April 24:
Recommended by C.T. Salazar, Mississippi Poet
Rosetta Stone Serious Study of Love Song (from the British Museum) by Ed Roberson
April 25:
Recommended by Jennifer McGillan, Coordinator of Manuscripts for Special Collections
Ars Poetica by Valzhyna Mort
April 26:
Recommended by Julie Shedd, Web Technologies Director, MSU Libraries
Tula ["Books are door-shaped"] by Margarita Engle
April 27:
Recommended by the Poetry Month Committee
Librarian by David Etter
April 28:
Recommended by Lara Taylor, Library Associate in the CAAD Library
Notes of the Art of Poetry by Dylan Thomas
April 29:
Recommended by C.T. Salazar, Mississippi Poet
Bell Theory by Emily Jungmin Yoon
April 30:
Recommended by Dr. Lis Pankl, Dean of Libraries
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats