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First Edition, Emily Dickinson Poetry, 1891Poems of Emily Dickinson, Second Series, "Edited by two of her friends," T. W. Higginson and Mabel.
Beautifully written and cunningly meaningful, the poems of Emily Dickinson are meditations on love, God, nature, life and death.
Franklin's record of “Poems Published in Dickinson's Life- time,” there were a total of seven years when Dickinson poems appeared in print: 1852,.

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Roses are red,
violets are blue,
when poetry is read
language blossoms anew!

April is National Poetry Month, and we’ve compiled a list of poet biographies and poetry collections for your convenience. This is only a small sampling of our poet biographies and poetry collections though, and includes works from our youth and adult sections. Use this as a starting place, or contact us for more books about poets and poetry and we’ll be happy to provide books for all your interests.

Also, check out poets.org’s list of 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month on their website.

Poet Biographies

Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Summary from our catalog: Before Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, she was a little girl who dared to dream. Gwendolyn grew up surrounded by fine poetry. From an early age, she memorized the poems her father read to her and soon began to pen her own. Gwendolyn found inspiration all around her: in the colorful clouds overhead; in

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Margaret Junkin Preston was a prolific 19^th century US poet and novelist.

She was born Margaret Junkin on the 19^th May 1820 in Milton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She was privately educated and, by the age of 12, was proficient in Ancient Greek and Latin. She said later in life that she missed the companionship that might have been gained from going to schools but, despite this, she was an able student. During her twenties the family moved to Lexington, Virginia and it was here that she eventually met and married her future husband.

She was 37 years old when she married Colonel John Thomas Lewis Preston, a union that produced two sons. Colonel Preston was a Latin professor at the Virginia Military Institute who went on to serve in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War under the command of the famous “Stonewall” Jackson. Like her husband, she was a great supporter of Confederacy and used her poetry to promote the southern cause at that time, being particularly sympathetic towards the wives and mothers of soldiers. She became so po

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Douglas Preston on an expedition to explore a lost city in the Honduran rainforest, 2015. Photograph by Dave Yoder, National Geographic.

This biographical section contains a long and short biography. Bookstores, libraries and other organizations have permission to use either biography.

Long biography

Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. Following a distinguished matriculation at a private nursery school, where he was almost immediately expelled, he attended public schools and the Cambridge School of Weston. Notable events in his early life included the loss of a fingertip at the age of three to a bicycle; the loss of his two front teeth to his brother Richard's fist; and various broken bones, also incurred in dust-ups with Richard. (Richard went on to write The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, which tells you all you need to know about what it was like to grow up with him as a brother.)

As they grew up, Doug, Richard, and their little brother David roamed the quiet streets of Wellesley, terrorizing