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KU Libraries Celebrate National Poetry Month with a Poem a Day in April
April 2009
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Every weekday in April, KU Libraries will offer a new poem on this site.* Enjoy!
- April 1: "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" by Walt Whitman
- April 2: "O Mistress Mine" by William Shakespeare (from "Twelfth Night")
- April 3: "Jabberywocky" by Lewis Carroll (from "Through the Looking Glass")
- April 6: "Bright Star!" by John Keats
- April 7: "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- April 8: "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost
- April 9: "High Flight" by John Magee
- April 10: "On His Blindness" by John Milton
- April 13: "The Common Fate of Books" by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
- April 14: "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne
- April 15: "Poetry" by Marianne Moore
- April 16: "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- April 17: "Buffalo Dusk" by Carl Sandburg
- April 20: "Lines Written in Dejection" by William Butler Yeats
- April 21: "The Voice" by Sara Teasdale
- April 22: "Sea Fever"by John Masefield
- April 23: "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- April 24: "Witch-Wife" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- April 27: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
- April 28: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh
- April 29: "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
- April 30: "Flutes in Tunisia" by Julianne Buchsbaum
KU Libraries collections contain more than 28,000 books of or about poetry. Throughout April, a special selection of poetry books will be available for checkout in Watson Library near the 3rd floor service desk.
Check out our two special events on April 30 at Watson Library. Come share your favorite poem at the Favorite Poems Open Mic Reading at 4 p.m., and a lecture on American poet Wallace Stevens by librarian, poet and scholar Julie Buchsbaum. (More info...)
Pick up a Poem to Go. Each Monday in April, drop by participating KU Libraries service desks to pick up a copy of that week's Poem to Go.
*Notes on selection and further reading.
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