Rooftop Poetry Club

Resources for Writers

Looking for a good read? Try one of these favored volumes. Click the call number to see if a book is available from Butler Library.

POETS' PICKS

Angelou, M.
I Shall Not Be Moved. /
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1990
PS3551.N464 I17 1990
(picked by Carol)

Angelou, M.
Poems /
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1986
(picked by Carol)

Astley, Neil (ed.)
Staying alive: Real poems for unreal times /
New York : Miramax Books, 2003
PS3564.Y44 H8 1982
(picked by Charles Bachman)

Creeley, Robert.
Selected poems /
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991
S3505.R43 A6 1991
(picked by Lisa)

Giovanni, Nikki
The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni /
New York : William Morrow and Co., 1996
PS3564.Y44 H8 1982
(picked by Patrice Cathey)

Hughes, Langston
Selected poems of Langston Hughes /
PS 3515.U274 A6 1990
New York: Vintage Books, c1990
(picked by Sitsofe kwaku Agbemenu)

Katz, Joy.
Fabulae /
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002
PS3611.A79 F33 2002
(picked by Peter)

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee.
Miracle Fruit /
Tupelo Press, 2003.
PS3564.E995 M57
(picked by Irene)

Nye, Naomi Shihab
Hugging the jukebox /
New York : Dutton, c1982
PS3564.Y44 H8 1982
(picked by Jessica)

Pinsky, Robert
Jersey Rain /
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2000
PS3566.I54J47 2000
(picked by Steve Zabaldo)

Poems of Akhmatova /
(Selected, translated and introduced by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward)
PG3476. A324 A17 1973
Boston, Little Brown, c1973
(picked by Sitsofe kwaku Agbemenu)

Silverstein, Shel.
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein /
New York : Harper and Row, c1974
PR5502 .M35 2004
(picked by Walter)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Major poems and selected prose /
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004
PR5502 .M35 2004
(picked by Dennis)

Tapahonso, Luci
Sáanii Dahataa?, the women are singing /
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1993.
PS3570.A567 S2 1993
(picked by Jennifer)