{"id":144468,"date":"2022-04-08T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144468"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T14:30:04","slug":"staff-picks-our-favorite-poems-and-poetry-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144468","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Our Favorite Poems and Poetry Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

April is poetry month so we thought we’d share some of our favorite poems and poetry collections.<\/p>\n

Poetry Collections<\/h3>\n

Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay<\/strong><\/a> by Mary Oliver.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited<\/strong><\/a> by Tony Trigilio.<\/p>\n

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho<\/strong><\/a> translated by Anne Carson<\/p>\n

Ariel<\/strong><\/a> by Sylvia Plath.<\/p>\n

\"\"Life on Mars<\/strong><\/a> by Tracy K. Smith<\/p>\n

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s poems<\/strong><\/a> selected and with an introduction by Thomas H. Johnson.<\/p>\n

World’s End<\/strong><\/a> by Pablo Neruda; translated by William O’Daly.<\/p>\n

Men, Women and Ghosts<\/strong><\/a> by Amy Lowell<\/p>\n

Favorite Poems<\/h3>\n

“From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee find it in Good Poems<\/strong><\/a> selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy find it in Mondo Barbie<\/strong><\/a> edited by Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody.<\/p>\n

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe find it in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong><\/a> by Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p>\n

“Junior Addict” by Langston Hughes find it in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes<\/strong><\/a> edited by Arnold Rampersad<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Blackberry-Picking” by Seamus Heaney find it in A Child’s Anthology of Poetry<\/strong><\/a> edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword<\/p>\n

“I Carry Your Heart with Me by E.E. Cummings” find it in Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems and Letters<\/strong><\/a> compiled by Paul B. Janeczko.<\/p>\n

“Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost” find it in The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing<\/strong><\/a> edited by Kevin Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April is poetry month so we thought we’d share some of our favorite poems and poetry collections. Poetry Collections Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver. Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Life on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":144469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,48,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-poetry-collections","category-staff-picks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/3096313.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BA8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144476,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144468\/revisions\/144476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}