It’s National Poetry Month, a perfect time to enrich our lives with poetry. If you’re not sure where to start, here are some suggestions. We’ll be back with more next time; our shelves are full of verses and rhymes.
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Anthologies to Pick and Choose From
American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, selected and with an introduction by Tracy K. Smith
Essential Pleasures : A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, edited by Robert Pinsky
A Family of Poems : My Favorite Poetry for Children, selected by Caroline Kennedy
Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry, selected and with an introduction by Billy Collins
The Top 500 Poems, edited by William Harmon

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#OwnVoices Poetry
African American Poetry : 250 Years of Struggle and Song, Kevin Young, editor
Haiku : Poetry Ancient & Modern, an anthology compiled by Jackie Hardy
LatiNext, edited by Felicia Rose Chavez, Jose Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo
When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through : A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, editors, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster

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Local Poets
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Alive Together by Lisel Mueller
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, edited by Elizabeth Alexander
A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval, foreward by Chance the Rapper
Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg, edited by Paul Berman

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