POETRY MONTH READING LIST We've identified the following poets, poems, and poetry collections that you might enjoy over the month of April! Click a topic below to jump to that section.

● MONTANA POETS

● HARLEM RENAISSANCE

● IMAGIST

● VICTORIAN

● BEAT

● CONFESSIONAL

● AWARD WINNING

● YOUNG ADULT

● ESSAYS, MEMOIR, CRITICISM

● CLASSIC

● AUDIO/VIDEO

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Happy Poetry Month! M ONTANA POETS

● Lowell Jaegar (Montana Poet Laureate) ○ Suddenly, out of a long sleep ○ Poems across the Big Sky : an anthology of Montana poets ○ New poets of the American West : an anthology of poets from eleven Western states ● Karen Volkman ○ [I believe there is a song that is stranger than wind . . .] ○ Casanova in Love ○ From Shore ● Sandra Alcosser ○ Each Bone a Prayer ○ The Entomologist's Landscape ○ Ruddy Glow against a Black Background ● Richard Hugo ○ Making certain it goes on : the collected poems of Richard Hugo ○ Selected poems ○ The triggering town : lectures and essays on poetry and writing ○ What thou lovest well, remains American ● Patricia Goedicke ○ Danger of Falling ○ The Hills in Half Light ○ Looking through the Window at the Future ● Richard Brautigan ○ June 30th, June 30th ○ Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan ● Greg Keeler ○ Spring catch ○ Trash fish : a life ○ American Falls : poems ○ The far bank ○ A mirror to the safe ○ Epiphany at Goofy's gas : poems ● Greg Pape ○ Black branches ○ American flamingo ○ Storm pattern ○ Border crossings ● Henry Real Bird ○ Wolf teeth : poems ○ Horse tracks : poems ● Sheryl Noethe ○ As is : poems ○ The ghost openings ○ The descent of heaven over the lake ● Tami Haaland ○ When we wake in the night : poems ○ Little Girl ○ Returning ○ A Colander of Barley ● Michael Earl Craig ○ Advice for Horsemen ○ In a Grove ○ Night Nurse ○ Winter H ARLEM RENAISSANCE

● Langston Hughes ○ The collected poems of Langston Hughes ○ The dream keeper and other poems ● American poetry : the twentieth century

I MAGIST

● William Carlos Williams ○ The collected poems of William Carlos Williams ○ "Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams ● Ezra Pound ○ The bughouse : poetry, politics, and madness of Ezra Pound ○ Poems and translations

V ICTORIAN

● Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ○ Poems and other writings ○ Favorite poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ● Elizabeth Barrett Browning ○ Elizabeth Barrett Browning : selected poems ○ Love poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning ● Edgar Allen Poe ○ The complete tales & poems of Edgar Allan Poe ○ Nevermore : a graphic adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. ○ Edgar Allan Poe's pie : math puzzlers in classic poems ○ Nevermore : prose and poems B EAT

● Allen Ginsberg ○ American scream : Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation ○ Collected poems, 1947-1997 ○ Howl and other poems ○ Death & fame : poems, 1993-1997 ● Diane di Prima ○ The Poetry deal ● Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology ● Richard Brautigan ○ June 30th, June 30th ○ Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan

C ONFESSIONAL

● Sylvia Plath ○ Ariel ○ The collected poems ● Anne Sexton ○ Selected poems of Anne Sexton ○ Love poems ● Ted Hughes ○ Collected poems ○ Collected poems for children ○ Ted Hughes : the unauthorised life

A WARD WINNING

● Omeros ● Olio ● Digest ● 3 sections ● Stag's leap ● Life on Mars : poems

Y OUNG ADULT

● Voices against silence ● Please excuse this poem : 100 new poets for the next generation ● Leave this song behind : teen poetry at its best ● How to (un)cage a girl ● One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance ● Dizzy in your eyes : poems about love ● Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States ● Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty

E SSAYS, MEMOIR, CRITICISM

● Poetry will save your life : a memoir ● The ocean, the bird, and the scholar : essays on poets and poetry ● The state of the art : a chronicle of American poetry, 1988-2014 ● American originality : essays on poetry ● I've heard the vultures singing : field notes on poetry, illness, and nature ● A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry ● Why poetry ● Ideas of order : a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets ● Why Homer matters ● My poets

C LASSIC POETRY

● Metamorphoses ● The Iliad ● The Odyssey ● The Aeneid ● Shakespeare’s Sonnets ● If not, winter : fragments of Sappho ● The songs of the south : an ancient Chinese anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and other poets ● The essential haiku : versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa ● The oresteia ● Dante's Inferno

A UDIO/VIDEO

● Poetry out loud : National poetry recitation contest ● Howl ● A child's garden of poetry ● Poetry on record: 98 poets read their work, 1888-2006. ● Papa is a poet : a story about Robert Frost ● Louder than a bomb ● Ages of man ● Backroads of Montana. [episode 29], Rockets, peaks and poets ● Classics of American literature