Poems We Love

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