Are you – Nobody – too? The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 137

By Gwen Glazer, Librarian
April 11, 2019

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Our poetry bonanza has arrived! In this episode—titled to pay homage to Frank's favorite Emily Dickinson stanza—he and Gwen get to read and hear poems suggested by their listeners.

Poetry Bonanza

Listener Poetry Recommendations

"My Mother Says I Am Sickening" in The New Kid On the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky

“Good Hot Dogs” by Sandra Cisneros in A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poems for Children by Caroline Kennedy

"Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" in Selected Poem by Mary Ruefle

"Kal" in  If They Come for Us by Fatima Asghar

The title poem in What the Living Do: Poems  by Marie Howe

"What Resembles the Grave but Isn't" by Anne Boyer

Tommy Pico

IRL by Tommy Pico

The title poem in Inventory by Dionne Brand

"I want a dyke for president" by Zoe Leonard 

"Girls of the Wild" in Wild Embers  by Nakita Gill

"Fold" in You & Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Scientific Romance" by Tim Pratt

"Where the Mind is Without Fear" from Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore

Also mentioned:

NYPL's Poem in Your Pocket Day

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