Since President Bill Clinton’s issued proclamation in 1996,
April is annually celebrated as National Poetry Month. Each year, the Academy
of American Poets and others around the country and global celebrate, encourage
and increase awareness and appreciation of poetry.
The poetry celebration is one of the most awaited
celebrations for literati, poets and bibliophiles. The Found Poetry Review
invites and encourages poets to participate in their annual National Poetry
Month project, PoMoSco. The project
is an opportunity for poets, of any experience level or publication history, to
earn more than 30 merit badges and all poetry, for PoMoSco, will be posted on a centralized site to encourage others
to particularly focus their attention to poetry.
CSU libraries encourage students and patrons to participate
and read various selections of poetry. For this year’s poetry month, CSU
libraries suggests poets, writers, and all patrons to review and read as much
poetry as possible to help spread the awareness and increase the appreciation
for poetry.
**List not in any order of significance
**List not in any order of significance
Poetry and Other
Selections
The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
The Elephant by Hilare
Belloc
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
Let America Be America
Again by Langston Hughes
If by Rudyard Kipling
If by Rudyard Kipling
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
I Carry Your Heart with Me by E.E. Cummings
I Carry Your Heart with Me by E.E. Cummings
Why I am Not a Painter
by Frank O’Hara
The Waste Land by
T.S. Eliot
The Selected Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
Young Goodman Brown
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is a Dog from
Hell by Charles Bukowski
The Langston Hughes
Reader by Langston Hughes
A Dream within a Dream
by Edgar A. Poe
The Poor Ghost by Christina Rossetti
The Poor Ghost by Christina Rossetti
The Second Coming
by William B. Yeats
A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Vanity of Human
Wishes by Samuel Johnson
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
On Being Brought from
Africa to America Phyllis Wheatley
Ulysses and In Memoriam by Lord Tennyson
Before the Birth of
One of Her Children and Contemplations
by Anne Bradstreet
Leaves of Grass by
Walt Whitman
A Room of One’s Own
by Virginia Woolf
To Autumn by John Keats
To Autumn by John Keats
The Rape of the Lock by
Alexander Pope
Outside of The Found Poetry Review’s PoMoSco, there are other literary projects, festivals, poetry
slams and events hosted in the state of Georgia and in the city of Columbus.
For more information, review the below list or browse The Southern
Literary Trail: 2015 Georgia Events, supported by the Georgia Humanities Council, and The Georgia
Poetry Society.
THE MARGUERITE AND
LAMAR SMITH FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS
Deadline: April 1, 2015
The Carson McCullers Center Fellowship Program- English Department
Deadline: April 1, 2015
The Carson McCullers Center Fellowship Program- English Department
Columbus State University
AN AFTERNOON WITH
POET NOAH BLAUSTEIN
Tuesday, April 13, 2015
The Carson McCullers Center of Columbus, Georgia
EUDORA WELTY: A LIFE
IN LETTERS
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The Balzar Theater at Herren's, Atlanta
AN EVENING OF
MASTERFUL STORYTELLING: ERSKINE CALDWELL, THE SHORT STORY WRITER
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Moreland, Georgia
A READING WITH POET
ACE BOGGESS
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Carson McCullers Center of Columbus, Georgia
ACTRESS BRENDA BYNUM
PERFORMS "JORDAN IS SO CHILLY: AN ENCOUNTER WITH LILLIAN SMITH,"
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Brenda Bynum Dillard, Georgia
A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY
GRAMMY NOMINEE TED OLSON AT THE BYRON HERBERT REECE FARM
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Blairsville, Georgia
BOURBON, LITERATURE
AND SOUTHERN CHARM: SOUTHERN LITFEST 2015
Friday and Saturday, June 5 & 6, 2015
Newnan, Georgia
As the semester comes to an end, CSU libraries encourage all,
particularly students, to partake in some of the literary events around campus,
the city and the state. For more information, browse CSU libraries official page and CSU Gil-Find Catalog to locate
items and visit The Georgia
Poetry Society.