2021 97ɫ Library Poetry Month Bookmarks!

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Thanks to everyone who sent me your favorite poem! 

This year's poetry month bookmarks contain some nature poems, some poems about peeking at other people's houses (consensually), an ode to James Baldwin, and several more. 

screenshots of the bookmark images to accompany 2021's poems

Click through to download previous years' and 2021's 97ɫ Library Poetry Month bookmarks, which include Joy Harjo's “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith's “little prayer,” Kay Ryan's “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz's “Halley’s Comet,” Rita Dove's “My Mother Enters the Work Force,” Karl Shapiro's “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass's “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes's “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte's “Horses Moving on the Snow.”

The file is a pdf, so you can print your own (and color them in, if that's your thing). 

Click on the image of the bookmark to view, print, and download. 

2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Joy Harjo's “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith's “little prayer,” Kay Ryan's “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz's “Halley’s Comet,” and Rita Dove's “My Mother Enters the Work Force”


2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Karl Shapiro's “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass's “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes's “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte's “Horses Moving on the Snow.”
2019 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Hummingbirds" by Mary Oliver, "We Were All Odysseus in those Days" by Amorak Huey, "The Good Life" Tracy K. Smith, "For a Coming Extinction" by 
W.S. Merwin, and "Ode to My Shoes" by Francisco X. Alarcon
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Anecdote of Men by the Thousand" by Wallace Stevens, "The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz" by Alicia Ostriker, "Cotton Candy" by Edward Hirsch, and "My Madonna" by Robert W. Service
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Sea Grapes" by Derrek Walcott, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" by e.e. cummings, [a haiku rumination on sushi] by Yosa Buson, and "Exit" by Rita Dove
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, "Next Time Ask More Questions" by Naomi Shihab Nye, "The Tyger" by William Blake, and "El Poema" by Homero Aridjis (translated by Eliot Weinberger)

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