Poetry Resources at Mabee Library

April is National Poetry Month. Here are some items available from Mabee Library's collection.

Kansas

The Kansas Experience in Poetry
WU Mabee Stacks PS595.K35 K3

Sunflowers: A Book of Kansas Poems
WU Mabee Stacks PS595.K35 S8


Classics

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 / T.S. Eliot
WU Mabee Stacks PS3509.L43 A17 1963

Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman
WU Mabee Stacks PS3201

The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
WU Mabee Stacks PS3566.L27 B4

Collected poems, 1947-1997 / Allen Ginsberg
WU Mabee Stacks PS3513.I74 A17 2006


Reference

The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices / William Packard
WU Mabee Reference PN1021 .P23 1989

The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry
WU Mabee Reference PN1021 .G7 1990

World Poets / Ron Padgett, editor in chief
WU Mabee Reference PN1021 .W67 2000


Periodicals

Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Full text available from Humanities Full Text: 01/01/1995 to present
Full text available from ProQuest Research Library: 01/01/1998 to present
Full text available from Wilson OmniFile: 01/01/1995 to present

Poet's Market
WU Mabee Reference PN1059.M3 P59 2007


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So it goes...

Kurt Vonnegut passed away late in the evening on April 11th. He was 84. Check out the following links for more information about his life and work:

His Obituary in The New York Times

The Official Web Site of Kurt Vonnegut

Resources from Mabee Library's Collection

A Great Blog Entry from The Onion

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month FAQ's


History and Highlights


Kansas on poets.org


Poetry-A-Day
poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month.


Life Lines
We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "Life Lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter.


Against National Poetry Month As Such
by Charles Bernstein


Rejected Marketing Slogans for National Poetry Month
from McSweeney's