Need a little inspiration? Check out these prompts to get you started!
Join us for our National Poetry Month activity!
Scattered around the second floor of the LRC will be words sourced from two different poems.
Try and build a poem with as many of the words you find--need some punctuation? Stop by the circulation desk to grab some.
Once your poem is finished, make sure to take a picture and tag our Instagram--#coastalcarolinacclibrary--or have a librarian do it for you!
After you are done, just drop all the words you found off at the circulation desk on the 2nd floor!
African-American Poetry by 
The BreakBeat Poets by 
A Child's Anthology of Poetry by 
Contemporary Poetry of North Carolina by 
Neon Soul by 
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath by 
Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (LOA #3) by 
Washing the Dust from Our Hearts by Looking for more? Delve into the collection! Poetry can be found in the following call numbers:
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A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.
A collection of more than 3,700 ebooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.
62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
LitFinder covers world literature and authors throughout history, and contains a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials, including over 150,000 full-text poems and more than 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
