THE MONTH OF APRIL is National Poetry Month. This annual celebration was created in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets.
April 18th is “Poem in Your Pocket Day,” when you are invited to select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others. The National Academy has a selected list of suggested poems.
Don’t forget that we have educational resources for poetry. Our research databases include the Poetry & Short Story Reference Center and Bloom’s Literature. Both databases contain thousands of full-text poems as well as scholarly analysis. Be sure to check them out.
And keep in mind that Bloom’s is on trial, so please contact the reference librarian at dgdavidson@nwosu.edu for the login information.
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Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques—including contemporary content from the finest publishers. -
Bloom’s Literature
With a dynamic new design, exciting new features, and the largest addition of new content in the history of the database, the award-winning Bloom’s Literature has been rebuilt from the ground up, making it an even better tool for enriching the study of literature. We’ve added to the product more than 200 additional full-length performance videos (bringing the total number to more than 400), the full contents of more than 1,000 classic literary works, more than 350 books edited by Harold Bloom, and thousands of images. In addition, Bloom’s Literature now features a comprehensive Shakespeare Center with everything your students need to study Shakespeare—including the full text of all of his plays—plus a redesigned “How to Write About” section with improved functionality and special sections covering how to write a good essay. Bloom’s Literature’s new, intuitive interface features a clean, dynamic design that provides easy access to all of this rich content.
