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- How Poetry Can HealPsychologists and writers understand the healing power of writing. Here's how.
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- Mental Health: Poems for TeensBrowse poems about anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues, as well as poems about hope, resilience, and survival.
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Recommended Books
Happy, Okay?: Poems About Anxiety, Depression, Hope, & Survival by Call Number: 811.6ISBN: 9781642501360Publication Date: 2019Paloma is faking it. On the outside, she's A-Okay: she's electrified at work; there is a cadence in her step as she walks her dog; she posts memes on Facebook; and she keeps up with most relationships. Looks can be deceiving, however: Inside, Paloma is just going through the motions, and she feels like things are spiraling out of control. But when things are at their darkest, dawn arrives with clarity and focus, and with it, healing. Paloma learns to value small glimmering moments of joy rather than searching for constant happiness, thus building hope for her future.
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Call Number: 811.5ISBN: 9780525565345Publication Date: 2019Robert Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes with this collection, published in 1923. It contains some of his most enduring and best-known poems, including "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Fire and Ice," "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Field of Light and Shadow by Call Number: 811.54ISBN: 9781524712334Publication Date: 2023A newly expanded career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language, and new poems that reflect a continued artistic interest in these subjects. Young's settings are at once local and universal-an adolescence in Omaha, late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature, between the literary and the philosophical, microcosm and macrocosm.
Quiet by Call Number: 821.92ISBN: 9780593535646Publication Date: 2023A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love. These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the impulse to guard one's inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, "your silence will not protect you."
Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic by Call Number: 811.008ISBN: 9780593318720Publication Date: 2020As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality.
Little Poems by ISBN: 9780593536308Publication Date: 2023From Sappho and Li Bai to Sandra Cisneros and Ocean Vuong: a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems from around the world and through the ages Short poems have been popular for centuries, from the famous fragments of Sappho in ancient Greece to the traditional haiku of Japan, from the Imagist poems of Ezra Pound and H. D. to the witty couplets of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash, from lyrical gems by Shakespeare and Rumi to modern classics by W. H. Auden and Margaret Atwood. This collection brings together brief poems--defined as fewer than fourteen lines--from a wide range of poetic traditions.
Wind, Trees by Call Number: 811.6ISBN: 9781556596483Publication Date: 2022A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed?
Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy by Call Number: 811.54ISBN: 9780394707792Publication Date: 1982More than 150 poems from her seven books of poetry written between 1963 and 1982.
Black Swim by Call Number: 811.6ISBN: 9781556596513Publication Date: 2022In Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness. This stunning debut collection is at once "forged from the hurt parts of the ground," and "proof of a miracle," spinning ache and sweat and sweetness into a new model of feeling through language. Black people, queer/trans/nonbinary people, flamboyant people, lonely people, gaudy people, kind people, witches, artists, and angry people will meet themselves and each other in these pages. Amidst death and against injustice, Goodly's poems bear gifts for and from the ancestors--a necklace, a mirror, a form of offered prayer: "If there is a purpose in this life / let me wash my face in it."
The World Has Need of You: Poems for Connection by ISBN: 9781556596230Publication Date: 2023In times of joy and sorrow, celebration and confusion, people turn to poetry. Amid the initial uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the staff and interns of Copper Canyon Press created The World Has Need of You, a response to our community's need for balm, for fuel, for a sense of connection. Curated from our in-house catalogue of poems, this anthology is dedicated to our community of poets and readers with deep gratitude and awe: Your support and collaboration ensures that poetry will continue to flourish, bring comfort, and ignite change.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Call Number: 811.6ISBN: 9781644450147Publication Date: 2020Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages--bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers--be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.
Poems of the Sea by Call Number: 808.81932162ISBN: 9780375413292Publication Date: 2001Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin
Milk and Honey by Call Number: 811.6ISBN: 9781449496364Publication Date: 2018The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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DePaul Resources
- African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Poems by African Americans. Search by keyword, poem title, author, genre, or time period.
- American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Poems from the Colonial period to the end of the 19th century.
- Canadian Poetry This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems and offers a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.
- English Poetry This link opens in a new window
Contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. 180,000+ poems by 1,250+ poets. 2nd edition.
- Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new window
Poems published by Faber and Faber in the 20th century.
- Twentieth-Century African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Over 50,000 poems by 300+ American poets, including: Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new window
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 English poets.