Library staff recorded some of their favorite poems for National Poetry Month. We think the poems are enjoyable anytime of the year. Sample a few. We think you'll agree.
Cassie - "'Hope is a thing with feathers' - 314" by Emily Dickinson
Rebecca - "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
Emrys - "Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there]" by William Hughes Mearns
Rebecca - "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry Month 2020
Rebecca - "Elmer's Tune" by Elmer Albrecht
Michele - "Daffodil's Return" by Bliss Carman
Ali - "Noise, by Pooh" by A.A. Milne
Rebecca - "Summer Rain" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rosie - "A Library" by Nikki Giovanni
Beth - "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
Cassie - "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
Bailee - "Zorgamazooby" by Paul Robert Weston
Emrys - "The Aeneid" by Virgil
Maria - "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
Ali - "The People Upstairs" by Odgen Nash