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Slyvia Plath was a mid-20th century poet. Her poems and writing exploreds the mental anguish, tensions and fears simmering underneath the surface of modern American life.
TS ELiot was a distinguished American writer and critic and a key figure in setting a new style for modern poetry. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1948. The Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock was written in 1910.
Warsan Shire is a contemporary British-Somali poet, whose writing featured on Beyonce's Lemonade visual album.
Button Poetry produces and distributes poetry media, including: video from local and national events, chapbooks, collaborative audio recordings, scholarship and criticism, and many other products. Button seeks to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
Click HERE to learn more about chapbooks. The library has a small collection of contemporary poetry chapbooks published by independent presses.
Edgar Allen Poe was early American writer, known for his gothic short stories and poetry, collected in the Tales of Mystery and the Macabre. The Raven was published in 1845.
Maya Angelou was highly a celebrated American writer and activist. Her first book, the autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings, was written in 1969. she writes about her remarkable life, celebrates the strength of women and the human spirit, and campaigns for social justice.
E.E. Cummings was an American mid-20th century writer and artist. His poetry expressed romantic attitudes in an innovative style, playfully experimenting with form, structure, syntax and punctuation.
When you type a word or two into Google search, a handful of autocomplete suggestions pop up automatically. And sometimes, but just sometimes, those autocomplete suggestions are quite poetic. Click on the image above to view examples.
"The Hill We Climb" is a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman and recited by her at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2021. The poem was written in the weeks following the 2020 United States presidential election, with significant passages written on the night of January 6, 2021, in response to the storming of the United States Capitol. Gorman was twenty-two years old when she recited the poem, making her the youngest inaugural poet ever.