Today is the first day of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Delve into our collection of poets and articles exploring Asian American culture: bit.ly/39DhZqA

The birds come back
but they don't tell us stories.
Their wings remember nothing,
are never knowledge.
We don't remember our birth,
when a mother dies, it's gone.

--'Homecoming' by Victoria Chang for #AsianHeritageMonth --and bird migration season. Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

--Emily Dickinson's most frequently anthologized poem. Hear Jorie Graham read it columbiagrangers.org Columbia Univ Press Col Univ Press PR Academy of American Poets

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date

--It's Shakespeare's birthday. Hear Eamon Grennan read this most famous of sonnets. columbiagrangers.org

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Thoughts standing still, like
the colored mosaic stones in
the palace courtyard.

Thomas Transtromer for #NationalHaikuPoetryDay .
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I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dáwn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

--Gerald Manley Hopkins 'The Windhover,' one of the 100 most popular poems. Hear Anthony Hecht's sumptuous reading. columbiagrangers.org Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind,
To war and arms I fly.

--To Lucasta Going to the Wars by Royal Cavalier Richard Lovelace, one of the most popular poems ever, read by J.D. McClatchy.

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Ooze, oud. Ease hearts whose eyes sink low.
Be hourglass in the pillaged O—.
Be wells none see. Unstoppered tears,
O oud, we gather in your bowl.

--Philip Metres, for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth . Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press columbiagrangers.org Academy of American Poets

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

--Dylan Thomas's poem in one of the most popular poems ever anthologized. Hear Paul Muldoon give it an exquisite reading!
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee

--Edgar Allan Poe and 'Annabel Lee' one of the most 100 popular poems for Poetry Month. Read by Maureen Howard. Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press Academy of American Poets

Emily Dickinson today for #WomensHistoryMonth , and our theme, women in conversation with science.

I pull a flower from the woods,—
A monster with a glass
Computes the stamens in a breath

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Here’s today’s poem by Hungarian poet Agnes Nagy read by me, Granger’s editor Tessa Kale. Trees! Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press Academy of American Poets

[Science] Supports the MIND, that dares the starry way
Illumed and guided by the Problem's ray,
mind sustain'd, who saw conceived the whole,
Retain'd, for all men's weal, a NEWTON 's Soul!

Hannah Cowley, popular 18th c. poet for #WomensHistoryMonth2024 Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press

The water rat is pretty
His paws are not webbed, he cannot shut his nostrils
As the otter can and the beaver, he is torn between
The land and water. Not ‘torn’, he does not mind.

-- Stevie Smith, who #DOTD in 1971. This is biology! Columbia Univ Press Col Univ Press PR

I learnt a little algebra, a little
Of the mathematics--brushed with extreme flounce
The circle of the sciences, because
She misliked women who are frivolous.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #BOTD in 1806. #WomensHistoryMonth Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press Columbia Libraries girls & science!

The woman in the field dressed only in the sun.

Too far gone to halt the Arctic Cap’s catastrophe, big beautiful

Blubbery white bears each clinging to his one last hunk of ice.

--Lucie Brock-Broido, who #DOTD in 2018. For #WomensHistoryMonth . Col Univ Press PR Columbia Univ Press

Doubtless we should deem superfluous
Many sciences
Not pursued by learnèd angels
In scholastic skies!

--Emily Dickinson for #WomenHistoryMonth ; our theme, women in conversation with science. Columbia Univ Press Col Univ Press PR Academy of American Poets columbiagrangers.org

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It's the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth and we continue to celebrate it! cup.columbia.edu/celebrate-blac… Columbia Univ Press Col Univ Press PR