Welcome! This is a selective guide to resources related to poets and poetry.
E-books
Almanac by Austin SmithAlmanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land.
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ISBN: 9781400848034
Publication Date: 2013-09-22
Faster Than Light by Marilyn NelsonConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857.
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ISBN: 0807147354
Publication Date: 2012-11-12
Hope Mirrlees: Collected Poems by Hope Mirrlees; Sandeep Parmar (Editor)Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees's poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer's later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poem?a daylong, psycho-geographical flânerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post?World War I Paris. Groundbreaking and illuminating, this volume is a testament to Mirrlees's contribution to 20th-century poetry.
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ISBN: 1847773508
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
The Light That Puts an End to Dreams by Susan Sherman; Josephine Sacabo (Photographer); Margaret Randall (Introduction by)An autobiography told in poems, this selection of work spans more than 40 years, beginning with the avant-garde arts movement and political activism of the 1960s. A mixture of intense political poems, intimate love poems, and provocative reflections, it traces the journey of a woman intimately involved with many significant events of the 20th century-the antiwar, feminist, and gay liberation movements, including time spent in Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Barcelona
Kanopy Streaming VideoThis link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, independent and classic feature films, educational videos, and award-winning films and shorts. Distributors include PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and more.
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Distributors part of Kanopy Streaming include Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and many more.
Alexander Street Press Streaming VideoThis link opens in a new windowVideos and audio covering a wide variety of subjects. Individual collections include Black Studies in Video, Black Thought & Culture, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vols.1-3, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Ethnographic Video Online :Vols.1-2, Filmmakers Library Online: Vols.1-2, LGBT Studies in Video, New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, Nursing Education in Video, and Theatre in Video: Vol.2.
Ambrose Video 2.0This link opens in a new windowEducational videos in the subjects of social studies, literature, fine arts and the sciences. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Plays.
Poetry Month Celebration
April is National Poetry Month
Poetry Month Celebration
TBA APRIL 2020
Wintrust Student Commons (1st floor of Maguire)
Come enjoy refreshments, creative activities, and a book raffle!
Books
Here are some poetry books that you can read for the event!