To celebrate National Poetry Month this April, Beloit Public Library will be hiding poems from many different poets throughout the library. They won’t be hard to find, just scattered in random places for anyone to find and enjoy.
If you find a poem, let a staff member at the front desk know, and you will be entered into a raffle to receive prizes at the end of the month! Also feel free to take and keep the poem you find. Many different poems will be displayed and continuously refreshed throughout the month of April.
Thanks to BPL’s on-staff poetry expert, Paul, for putting together this fun activity. Below is a list of all poems used in Find a Poem:
A Financial Planner Asks About My Goals, or Golden Shovel with Cardi B’s “Money” by Kemi Alabi
https://poets.org/poem/financial-planner-asks-about-my-goals-or-golden-shovel-cardi-bs-money
Sampling by Ralph Angel
https://poets.org/poem/sampling
To Prisoners by Gwendolyn Brooks
https://poets.org/poem/prisoners-0
i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen
https://poets.org/poem/i-love-you-moon
A Dream of Foxes by Lucille Clifton
https://poets.org/poem/dream-foxes
My Grandmother’s Love Letters by Hart Crane
https://poets.org/poem/my-grandmothers-love-letters
Mourning by Margarita Cruz
https://poets.org/poem/mourning
Poem for Haruko by June Jordan
https://poets.org/poem/poem-haruko
Alone for a Week by Jane Kenyon
https://poets.org/poem/alone-week
A Song for Many Movements by Audrey Lorde
https://poets.org/poem/song-many-movements
December, 1919 by Claude McKay
https://poets.org/poem/december-1919-0
And I in My Bed Again by Hilda Morley
https://poets.org/poem/and-i-my-bed-again
So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://poets.org/poem/so-much-happiness
At Night by Stanley Plumly
https://poets.org/poem/night-5
Plural Happiness by David Rivard
https://poets.org/poem/plural-happiness
My Father’s Leaving by Ira Sadoff
https://poets.org/poem/my-fathers-leaving
