2023 Durham Tech Library Poetry Month Bookmarks!

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Durham Tech Library's 2023 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before” by Ina Cariño, “Allowables” by Nikki Giovanni, "Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale" by Dan Albergotti, "[after Ross Gay’s 'A Small Needful Fact' and Jay Ward’s 'Ars Poetica in Which the Dead Child is Renamed as a Flower']" by Durham's first Poet Laureate (2022-23) DJ Rogers, and “What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use” by current US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
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2023's poetry month bookmarks have “Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before” by  Ina Cariño, “Allowables” by Nikki Giovanni, "Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale" by Dan Albergotti, "[after Ross Gay’s 'A Small Needful Fact'(link is external) and Jay Ward’s 'Ars Poetica in Which the Dead Child is Renamed as a Flower']" by Durham's Poet Laureate (2022-23) DJ Rogers(link is external), and “What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use” by current US Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

The file is a pdf, so you can print your own (and color them in, if that's your thing). Print 2-sided, short edge. Cardstock is recommended.

Bookmarks and bookmark sheets will be available for pick up at the Main Campus Library by Thursday and are currently available at the Orange County Campus Library.

Click through to download Durham Tech Library Poetry Month bookmarks from 2022, 2021, 2019, and 2017, which include poems from Jackie Shelton Green, Amanda Gorman, Terrance Hayes, Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan, Danez Smith, Rita Dove, Ellen Bass, and more!

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2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems are "Characteristics of Life" by Camille T. Dungy, "Small Kindnesses" by Danusha Laméris, "Rain" by Raymond Carver, "for grandma" by NC Poet Laureate Jackie Shelton Green, and "I Pick Up My Footprints" by Vasyl Holoborodko, translated from Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina, illustrated by our own Reference Librarian Sasha Deyneka, adapted from the works of Maria Prymachenko

2022 Poetry Month bookmarks: Camille T. Dungy's "Characteristics of Life," Danusha Laméris' "Small Kindnesses," Raymond Carver's "Rain," NC Poet Laureate Jackie Shelton Green's "for grandma," and Vasyl Holoborodko's "I Pick Up My Footprints" (translated from Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina)

2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Joy Harjo's “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith's “little prayer,” Kay Ryan's “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz's “Halley’s Comet,” and Rita Dove's “My Mother Enters the Work Force”

2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Joy Harjo's “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith's “little prayer,” Kay Ryan's “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz's “Halley’s Comet,” and Rita Dove's “My Mother Enters the Work Force”

2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Karl Shapiro's “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass's “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes's “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte's “Horses Moving on the Snow.”

2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Karl Shapiro's “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass's “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes's “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face of James Baldwin],” and David Whyte's “Horses Moving on the Snow.”

2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Mary Oliver's "Hummingbirds" with geometric hummingbird outline on back, Amorak Huey's "We Were All Odysseus in those Days" with an image of a ship, Spartan helmet, and softball and glove, Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life" with an image of a coffee cup and wine glass, W.S. Merwin's "For a Coming Extinction" with gray whales, and Francisco X. Alarcon's "Ode to My Shoes" with a pair of canvas tennis shoes.

2019 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Hummingbirds" by Mary Oliver, "We Were All Odysseus in those Days" by Amorak Huey, "The Good Life" Tracy K. Smith, "For a Coming Extinction" by W.S. Merwin, and "Ode to My Shoes" by Francisco X. Alarcon

2017 poetry month bookmarks: Anecdote of Men by the Thousand by Wallace Stevens, The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz by Alicia Ostriker, Cotton Candy by Edward Hirsch, and My Madonna by Robert W. Service

2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Anecdote of Men by the Thousand" by Wallace Stevens, "The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz" by Alicia Ostriker, "Cotton Candy" by Edward Hirsch, and "My Madonna" by Robert W. Service

2017 poetry month bookmarks: Sea Grapes by Derrek Walcott, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings, [a haiku rumination on sushi] by Yosa Buson, and Exit by Rita Dove

2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "Sea Grapes" by Derrek Walcott, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" by e.e. cummings, [a haiku rumination on sushi] by Yosa Buson, and "Exit" by Rita Dove

2017 poetry month bookmarks: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, Next Time Ask More Questions by Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tyger by William Blake, and El Poema by Homero Aridjis (translated by Eliot Weinberger)

2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, "Next Time Ask More Questions" by Naomi Shihab Nye, "The Tyger" by William Blake, and "El Poema" by Homero Aridjis (translated by Eliot Weinberger)

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