April is National Poetry Month! As we distance ourselves from each other during this difficult time, what better way to keep us connected than with the powerful words of poetry?
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Want more poetry? Check out the titles offered to all ages through Overdrive/The Libby app and hoopla, featuring both classic and contemporary poetry, including the following:
On Overdrive/Libby:
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Poisoned Apples: Poems for Your, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann
Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez
On hoopla:
101 Great American Poems by American Poetry & Literacy Project
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
I Could Pee On This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano
Live or Die by Anne Sexton
On Overdrive/Libby and hoopla:
Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
ebook on hoopla and audiobook on Overdrive/Libby
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
on Overdrive and hoopla
The Lunatic by Charles Simic
on Overdrive and hoopla
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
on Overdrive and hoopla
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