National Poetry Month was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 to celebrate the integral role of poets and poetry in our culture. One of the ways we are celebrating National Poetry Month at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers is through this discovery list of our favorite poetry collections and poems. If you are interested in other ways to celebrate national poetry month this month, you could try participating in our Adult Poetry Contest.
Poetry Collections
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
Lucky Wreck : Poems by Ada Limón
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
One Last Word: Wisdom From the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death, and Spring by Sarojini Naidu
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio.
Life On Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
Poems
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, which you can read in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, which you can read in which you can read in Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, which you can read in which you can read in Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, which you can read in Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which you can read in The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
To Autumn by John Keats, which you can read in Keats, Truth & Imagination written and compiled by K.E. Sullivan.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, which you can read in And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
All the World’s A Stage by William Shakespeare, which you can read in As You Like it by William Shakespeare.
Romance by Edgar Allan Poe, which you can read in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe.
Song at Sunset by Walt Whitman, which you can read in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Stars by Robert Frost, which you can read in Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson, which you can read in Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron, which you can read in Poems to Read Again and Again: a Selection of the Famous and Familiar edited with an introduction by Sarah Anne Stuart
