Stop by the John T. Richardson Library’s 2nd Floor poetry display this month to browse new and classic books of poetry from our collection. Wherever I’m At and City of the Big Shoulders are two anthologies of collected work by Chicago poets and artists “with a range of style and complexity that mirrors Chicago’s varied and nuanced character.” H. Melt’s There Are Trans People Here celebrates and honors the trans community in Chicago and beyond through a collection of intimate poetry. And Too Much Midnight features poems and artwork by Chicagoan Krista Franklin, who draws on themes of pop culture, Pan African histories, Black Surrealism, Afrofuturism, and racial violence. Explore poetry beyond Chicago with Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World, and I Wait for the Moon: 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda.
If you see something you’d like to take home and read, poetry books on display can be checked out at the 1st Floor Access Services Desk. This month’s display was curated by librarians Firouzeh Rismiller and Heather Jagman.
