From Angelou to Yeats, Ancient Greece to Modern Indonesia, explore a world of poetry for National Poetry Month 2005.

Individual Authors:

Adonis.  The Pages of Day and Night. (tr. Samuel Hazo).  PJ7862 .A519 A24 2000

Angelou, Maya.  The Complete Collected Poems.  PS3551 .N464 A17 1994

Bashō, et al.  Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Bashō and His Followers.  PL782 .E3 C525 2002

Bayati, Abd al-Wahhab.  Love, Death, and Exile.   (tr. Bassam K. Frangieh).  PJ7816 .A92 A23 1990

Blake, William.  The Essential Blake.  PR4142 .K8 1987

Brooks, Gwendolyn.  Selected Poems.  PS3503 .R7244 A6 1999

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.  Selected Poems.  PR4182 .F67 1988

Browning, Robert.  Robert Browning's Poetry.  PR4202 .L59 1979

Byron, George.  Byron's Poetry.  PR4352 .M28 1978

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  PR4479 .A1 1970

Collins, Billy.  Sailing Alone Around the Room.  PS3553 .O47478 .S25 2001

Dickinson, Emily.  Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson.  PS1541 .A6 1959b

Dove, Rita.  Mother Love.  PS3554 .O884 M68 1995

Dove, Rita.  On the Bus with Rosa Parks.  PS3554 .O884 O52 1999

Frost, Robert.  Poetry & Prose.  PS3511 .R94 A6 1984

Giovanni, Nikki.  Blues: For All the Changes.  PS3557 .I55 B68 1999

Giovanni, Nikki.  The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998.  PS3557 .I55 A17 2003

Hô, Huân Hu'o'ng.  Spring Essence. (tr. John Balaban).  PL4378.9 .H5425 H62 2000

Hughes, Langston.  The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.  PS3515 .U274 A17 1994

Issa, Kobayashi.  The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku.  (tr. Sam Hamill).  PL797.2 .A24 1997

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor.  Sor Juana's Love Poems/Poemas de Amor (tr. Joan Larkin & Jaime Manrique).  PQ7296 .J6 A24 1997

Marechera, Dambudzo.  Cemetery of Mind.  PR9390.9 .M3 C46 1999

Mistral, Gabriela.  Poemas de las Madres/The Mothers' Poems.  PQ8097 .G6 P55 1996

Neruda, Pablo.  The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.  PQ8097 .N4 A2 2003

Nhat Hanh, Thich.  Call Me By My True Names:  The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat  Hanh.  PL4378.9 .N55 A17 1993

Olds, Sharon.  The Dead and the Living.  PS3565 .L34 D4 2003

Oliver, Mary.  Dream Work.  PS3565 .L5 D74 1986

Paz, Octavio.  The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz.  PQ7297 .P285 A29 1987

Plath, Sylvia.  Ariel.  PS3566 .L27 A7 1999

Pope, Alexander.  The Rape of the Lock.  PR3629 .A1 1968

Pound, Ezra.  Selected Poems.  PS3531 .O82 A6 1957a

Qabbani, Nizar.  On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani.  (tr. Lena Jayyusi & Sharif Elmusa).  PJ7858 .A2 O5 1996

Rich, Adrienne.  Dark Fields of the Republic.  PS3535 .I233 D37 1995

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.  The Essential Rossetti.  PR5242 .H65 1990

Rumi.  The Essential Rumi.  (tr. Coleman Barks).  PK6480 .E5 B37 1996

Sappho: A New Translation.  (tr. Mary Barnard).  PA4408 .E5 B3 1986

Shakespeare, William.  Shakespeare's Sonnets.  PR2848 .A2 D86x 1989

Shelley, Percy Bysshe.  Shelley's Poetry and Prose.  PR5403 .R4

Tagore, Rabindranath.  Final Poems.  (tr. Wendy Barker & Saranindranath Tagore).  PK1722 .A2 B37 2001

Tennyson, Alfred.  Tennyson's Poetry.  PR5551 .H5 1999

Walcott, Derek.  Omeros.  PR9272.9 .W3 O44 1990

Whitman, Walt.  The Leaves of Grass and Other Writings.  PS3204  2002

Wordsworth, William.  The Essential Wordsworth.  PR5853 .H4 1988

Yeats, W.B.  The Poems of W.B. Yeats.  PR5900 .A3 1983

 Anthologies: 

An Anthology of Somali Poetry.  (tr. B.W. Andrzejewski).  PJ2534 .Z95 E5 1993

Brown, Iem & Joan Davis (ed., tr.).  Di Serambi/On the Verandah: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry.  PL5086 .D56 1995

Habib, M.A.R. (ed., tr.).  An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry.  PK2184 .A56 2003

Chang, Kang-I Sun & Haun Saussy (ed.).  Women Writers of Traditional China:  An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism.  PL2278 .W65 1999

Liu, Wu-Chi and Irving Yucheng Lo (ed.)  Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry.  PL2568 .E3 S84 1990

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China.  (tr. David Hinton).  PL2518.8 .N3 M68 2002

Lowitz, Leza & Miyuki Aoyama (ed., tr.).  Other Side River: Free Verse.  PL782 .E3 O85 1995

Lowitz, Leza, et al. (ed., tr.)  A Long Rainy Season: Haiku & Tanka.  PL782 .E3 L66 1994

Rutt, Richard (ed., tr.).  The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo.  PL984 .E3 R8 1998

Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology.  (tr. Steven D. Carter).  PL782 .E3 T7 1991

Classical Korean Poetry.  (tr. Jaihiun Kim).  PL984 .E3 C38 1994

Modern Korean Poetry.  (tr. Jaihiun Kim).  PL984  .E3 M64 1994

Huỳnh, Sanh Thông (ed., tr.).  An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries.  PL4378.65 .E5 A57 1996

Tapscott, Stephen (ed.).  Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology.  PQ7087 .E5 T94 1996

Handal, Nathalie (ed.).  The Poetry of Arab Women.  PJ7694 .E3 P64 2001

Carmi, T. (ed., tr.).  The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse.  PJ5059 .E3 P38 1997

Mandelbaum, Allen & Robert D. Richardson, Jr. (ed.).  Three Centuries of American Poetry.  PS584 .T48 1999

Paschen, Elise & Rebekah Presson Mosby (ed.).  Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath.  PS323.5 .P58 2001

Good Poems.  Selected by Garrison Keillor.  PS586 .G58 2002

Harper, Michael S. & Anthony Walton (ed.).  The Vintage Book of African American Poetry.  PS591 .N4 V56 2000

Sherman, Joan R. (ed.).  African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology.  PS591 .N4 A35 1992

Honey, Maureen (ed.).  Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.  PS591 .N4 S54 1989

Harper, Michael & Anthony Walton (ed.).  Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep:  An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945.  PS591 .N4 E94 1994

Major, Clarence (ed.).  The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry.  PS591 .N4 G37 1996

Orfalea, Gregory & Sharif Elmusa (ed.).  Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry.  PS591 .A7 G7 2000

Carlson, Lori M. (ed.).  Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States.  PS591 .H58 C66 1995

Milligan, Bryce, et al. (ed.).  Floricanto Sí: A Collection of Latina Poetry.  PS591 .H58 F58 1998

Natum, Duane (ed.).  Harper's Anthology of 20^th Century Native American Poetry  PS591 .I55 H37 1988

Poetry Slams: Reasserting Poetry's Oral Tradition (video).  PS615 .P6292x 2000

Glazner, Gary Mex (ed.).  Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry.  PS615 .P629 2000