Introduction
This libguide is a joint project between the Center for Writing and Creative Expression and the Harrison Library. It launched on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in celebration of National Poetry Month and is updated every spring. It is our hope the books on this list will offer beauty, diversion, food for thought, and inspiration. Have a poet or topic to suggest? Please email the librarians @ library@ssw.edu.
Conversations
- Books and Authors, The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge "A Lot of the Trees Were Walking."Join the Rev. Neal McGowan as he talks with the Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Dean and President of the Seminary of the Southwest, about her collection of poetry based on the Gospel of Mark, "A Lot of the Trees Were Walking." Dean Kittredge provides invaluable insights into the Gospel of Mark through some excellent poems, and she even reads a few of them for us!
Southwest faculty, student, staff, and alumni works
A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems From the Gospel of Mark by Call Number: BS2585.52 .K58 2015ISBN: 9781498200509Publication Date: 2015-02-04
Poemas: Yo, Orfeo, Vuelvo de Nuevo a Cantar by Call Number: PQ7519.2 .P4 P53 2008
Baptized Rage, Transformed Grief: I Got Through, So Can You! by Call Number: PS3611.I75384 B37 2017ISBN: 9781532636134Publication Date: 2017-12-08
Moods: Comparisons, Conversations, and a Little More by Call Number: PS3616.A88 M66 2010ISBN: 9781450022811Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Open Book
At Southwest, we form ministers and counselors who are faithful, imaginative,
and able to communicate God’s healing presence through their words and
works. Open Book brings together the entire range of these expressions —
creative, reflective, scholarly, and contemplative — to celebrate each unique
offering and to witness collectively to our experience of God’s love in the world.
Nevertheless
Soul by Southwest brings you the spring 2022 collection, "Nevertheless."
The Literary and Visual Arts Journal of Seminary of the Southwest
Poems published on the web: Southwest writers
eBooks
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English by ISBN: 9780198661474Publication Date: 1994-04-14
Upstream by ISBN: 9780698405622
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by ISBN: 9780393356816Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Books of Poetry donated by The Rev. Kit Wallingford in 2023
Once in the West by Call Number: PS3573.I47843 O63 2014ISBN: 9780374227012Publication Date: 2014-09-09
Endless Life: Poems of the Mystics by Call Number: PS3553.A3943 L68 2014ISBN: 9781612615202Publication Date: 2014-02-01
Poetry by Roger Reeves
photo credit Ana Schwartz
The speaker at the 72nd Commencement Exercises celebrating the Class of 2023 was award-winning poet Roger Reeves. Reeves is the author of King Me and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 2015 Whiting Award, among other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Best Barbarian: Poems by Call Number: PS3618.E4456 B47 2022ISBN: 9780393609332Publication Date: 2022-03-22
Poetry Collections
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation by Call Number: PS591.A76 A83 2004ISBN: 0252029054Publication Date: 2004-05-26
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by Call Number: PS591.N4 F87 2020ISBN: 9780810141544Publication Date: 2019-12-16
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Call Number: PS591 .N4 O97 2006ISBN: 9780195125634Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by Call Number: PQ7087 .E5 T94 1996ISBN: 0292781407Publication Date: 1996-01-01
For children (and grown-ups, too!)
Websites
- National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996.
Print Books
An American Sunrise: Poems by Call Number: PS3558.A62423 A64 2019ISBN: 9781324003861Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Dark Testament: and Other Poems by Call Number: PS3563.U775 D37 2018ISBN: 9781631494833Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Deaf Republic: Poems by Call Number: PS3611.A467 A6 2019ISBN: 9781555978310Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Did You Sing Your Song?: Poems by Call Number: PS3605.A753 D6 2020ISBN: 9781947460072Publication Date: 2020-01-01
The Essential Rumi by Call Number: PS3503 .R7244 A6 2005ISBN: 9780062509581Publication Date: 2004-05-28
Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Call Number: PS3564.Y44 E94 2020ISBN: 9780063013452Publication Date: 2020-09-29
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by Call Number: PS595.G76 H69 2021ISBN: 9781635863864Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them by Call Number: PN6110.G2 L43 2023ISBN: 9781635865806Publication Date: 2023-08-29
New and Collected Poems by Call Number: PG7158.M553 A2 2001ISBN: 9780060514488Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Ode to My Mother's Voice: And Other Poems by Call Number: PS3623.A359526 O3 2019ISBN: 9781942956716Publication Date: 2019-08-30
The Poems of Rowan Williams by Call Number: PR6073 .I43293 P64 2004ISBN: 9780802826855Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Technicians of the Sacred by Call Number: PN1347 .T43 1985ISBN: 9780520049123Publication Date: 1985-05-08
Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine by Call Number: PG3934.4.W37 W67 2017ISBN: 9781618116666Publication Date: 2017-10-31
