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National Poetry Month 2023

This guide will provide information on poetry and events for National Poetry Month

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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