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A Celebration of Poetry in the Collections

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day, and April has been proclaimed National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets. In recognition, explore our poetry-related collections and listen to poetry with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

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  • Robert Frost
  • Ezra Pound, poet
  • Kenneth Koch
  • For Love
  • John Ashbery
  • Walt Whitman
  • Frank O'Hara
  • DuBose Heyward
  • Phyllis McGinley
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Djuna Barnes
  • Poet Laureate
  • Edgar A. Guest
  • Dorothy Parker
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Bob Holman
  • Adah Isaacs Menken
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Green Hose, Robert Pinsky
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Dorothy Parker
  • The Poet
  • Claude McKay
  • Joseph Alexander Brodsky
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Portrait of Onakatomi no Yorimoto
  • Book of poems by Grace Greenwood
  • Portrait of the poetess, Saigu no Nyogo Yoshiko
  • John Cage
  • Arna Wendell Bontemps
  • James Agee
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Pedro Pietri
  • Emma Embury
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • Langston Hughes
  • Jim Harrison
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Writing box
  • Six Immortals of Poetry: Ono no Komachi
  • W. H. Auden
  • Allen Ginsberg (with Peter Orlovsky)
  • Kenneth Rexroth
  • 350 lire Virgil Seated at Podium single
  • Marianne Moore and Her Mother
  • Mark Strand
  • Langston Hughes

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