An annual April “National Poetry Month” post…a baker’s dozen of new collections of poems at the SLU Libraries:
- The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 selected by Glyn Maxwell
- Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn
- Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing edited by Andrew Schelling
- Special Powers and Abilities: Poems by Raymond McDaniel
- Black Crow Dress by Roxane Beth Johnson
- It Becomes You: Poems by Dobby Gibson
- Incarnadine: Poems by Mary Szybist
- The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground edited by Glenn O’Brien
- Celtic light: Poems 1885-2010 by Lee Perron
- Countee Cullen: Collected Poems edited by Major Jackson
- The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker
- Collected Poems, May Swenson edited by Langdon Hammer
- The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics by Paul Muldoon
May of these are found in the Browsing Collection on the shelves near our Paul and Anne Piskor Special Collections Reading Room…