CSU Libraries’ Suggested Poetry to Read for National Poetry Month

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

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

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
If by Rudyard Kipling

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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 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

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

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

Columbus State University

http://www.mccullerscenter.org/fellowships.php

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.

CSU Libraries to Sponsor Annual Faculty Research Forum Lectures

The Simon Schwob Memorial Library is to sponsor its Annual Faculty Research Forum, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 starting at 12:00 noon. The CSU Libraries will host the second, of three, faculty research forum lectures. There will be two distinguished speakers proceeded by a light lunch. The presentations will take place in the forum area of Schwob Library.

Assistant Professor, and Chair, of the Department of Political Science and MPA program, Frederick Gordon and The Threading Stone author and Auburn University alumni, Carey Wilkerson, will both present.

Gordon is known for other accomplishments outside of CSU’s campus; his first book, Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation examines the nature of how nation states cooperate over scarce water resources. The Assistant Professor’s most recent work includes his 2014 article titled "Is the Executioner Wrong?" which explores how certain teaching controversies can enhance college student writing.

Wilkerson, an English professor at CSU since 2007, is greatly involved in the creative writing and poetry sector in the Columbus area, nationally, and as a published, performing and prolific literary artist. Many of Wilkerson’s professional works include numerous poetry selections in Polymatheme, Creative Loafing, and Frame. The Auburn graduate is also a recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts Writing Fellowship, twice.

Both CSU faculty members are to conduct a light dialogue, open for inquiries, after their presentations. Students, as well as, faculty and staff members are encouraged to attend the CSU libraries second faculty forum lecture. For more information, please see official CSU libraries webpages for additional details.


Dr. Frederick Gordon, Political Science
Topic:  "Game Over or have the Games Just Begun: How Executive Orders have Reshaped Environmental Policy Making"

Carey Scott Wilkerson, English
Topic:  "Late Stages: Writing Drama with a Post-modern Hand and a Neo-classical Heart"

ePress to Increase Research and Scholarship at CSU

There are many amenities and services within the Columbus State Libraries that help not only CSU students and faculty members but scholars everywhere. The CSU ePress, an Open Access digital archive, is an online service that preserves and collects various materials such as dissertations and theses, conference presentations, journal articles, student publications and poems.

Many scholars and students are presumed to use the CSU ePress because all works uploaded in the digital archive are accessible through Google Scholar and Google. Yet, one of the most significant and snubbed feature of the ePress is that all information provided is largely free.

This feature, and benefit, allows students to better conduct their research without the worry and burden of coming out of pocket. With the Open Access feature, scholars and students do not have to worry about certain copyright and licensing restrictions, as many scholars may have dealt with in the past.

The CSU ePress also offers search filter options and citations to better position patrons and scholars routing and conducting their research online. Many patrons of the Schwob Memorial Library are more than likely to conduct their research physically in a library; however, with the CSU ePress, finding a professor’s graduate dissertation or last winter’s issues of The Arden can be conducted from a home kitchen or in a dorm room.

The arrangement of resources available and benefit of the CSU ePress is far too accommodating for scholars and CSU students to not use. With the expansion of the CSU ePress, more and more works from faculty and staff members and students are becoming accessible; the CSU ePress helps students and scholars to conduct their research with ease, consistently.

The growing archive includes many student creative works and professional works from CSU faculty and staff that have and are presumed to improve visibility of scholarship and the rate of citations. Be sure to visit the CSU ePress and the CSU Libraries.

Arden Showcase Event

Stop by the library on December 3rd from 12:00-1:30 pm for the Arden Showcase featuring art, poetry, fiction and nonfiction works. This event will be held in the forum area at the Schwob Library, main campus. Lunch will be provided. Please see below for more information: