{"id":11225,"date":"2022-04-14T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:05:01","slug":"celebrate-national-poetry-month-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2022\/04\/14\/celebrate-national-poetry-month-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Legendary Chicago poet Carl Sandburg once said \u201cpoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.\u201d Less-legendary second son Benedict Bridgerton also once said \u201cpoetry is the art of revealing precious truth through words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether historic or fictional, we celebrate poets and their words every April as part of National Poetry Month. A tradition of the Academy of American Poets since April of 1996, \u201cNational Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters,\u201d according to their official website https:\/\/poets.org\/<\/a>. \u201cOver the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K\u201312 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and\u2014of course\u2014poets, marking poetry’s important place in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, DePaul University Library is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem-A-Day display in the entrance of the John T. Richardson Library on the Lincoln Park Campus. Come by to check out a new poem each day, most recommended by one of our staff librarians or Peer Research Tutors. Each poem will direct you to where you can find more works by that poet.<\/p>\n

To browse volumes of poetry available at DePaul, head to the following Dewey Decimal call numbers, all of which will be located on the fourth floor of the John T. Richardson Library:<\/p>\n