Database Highlight #37: We've got the Poem for That
It’s National Poetry Month! All over the city and in the libraries, people will be celebrating the art of the poem. Finding the full-text of a poem or the life of a poet is easy with the Poetry & Short Story Reference Center. A featured poet and poem means you always have something new to discover.
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. – from the vendor
This week’s open site is the Academy of American Poets. Get a poem a day, browse poetry events, or watch archival videos of classic poets reading their poems! The site is a jumble of poetry and pictures. Have fun browsing the National Poetry Month page.
Action steps
- In Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, search for your favorite poet and/or poem. Leave a stanza or two in the comments!
- If you don’t have a favorite poet, discover one either through Poetry & Short Story Reference Center or the Academy of American Poets. Leave a stanza or two of your discovery in the comments!
- Checkout out the National Poetry Month site. Are you going to participate in “poem in your pocket” day?
Sticky pads (perfect for mini-poems to put in pockets) for all commenters.
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"On the banks of the Teche, are the towns of St. Maur and St. Martin.
There the long-wandering bride shall be given again to her bridegroom,
There the long-absent pastor regain his flock and his sheepfold.
Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit-trees;
Under the feet a garden of flowers, and the bluest of heavens
Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest.
They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana."
You can still visit the Evangeline oak tree in St Martinville, La.
"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room."
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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I don't intend to participate in the poem in your pocket, but now I'm not quite sure :)