April is one of our favorite months at Bookstore1. We love poetry and we love supporting poets. To prepare for Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 29th, we asked the Bookstore1 staff for some of their favorite poems. Here are their moving and diverse selections.
Andrea's Pick:
[love is more thicker than forget] by e.e. cummings.
Suggested book: e. e. cummings Selected Poems
Bryn's Pick:
I Am Really Just a Tambourine by Hafiz
Suggested book: The Gift
Doug's Pick
The Colonel by Carolyn Forché
Suggested book: The Country Between Us
Georgia's Pick:
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
Suggested book: At the Foundling Hospital
James Pick:
The Moon and the Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
Suggested book: The Collected Poems
Katia's Pick:
I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee
Suggested book: The Undressing
Roxanne's Pick:
The Pasture by Robert Frost
Suggested book: A Collection of Poems
Scott's Pick:
Ars Poetica? by Czeslaw Milosz
Suggested book: Selected and Last Poems