Poems for February, Featuring Flounder

February poems are now available for download! We celebrate Black History Month, Valentine's Day and the quiet of mid-winter.

This month's poets include Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014 and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Poetry.  Her work explores "memory and the racial legacy of America" and her "own mixed-race experience in the deep South”. She writes both poetry and prose, combining modern and traditional forms to create rich works full of imagery and history.

Read more about Natasha Tretheway at  Poetry Foundation.

Flounder, Natasha Trethewey
I Look at the World, Langston Hughes
Caged Bird, Maya Angelou
When You Are Old, William Butler Yeats
February, Jack Collom

Lake Oswego Library Features Neighborhood Poet

After a month of celebrating William Stafford, Lake Oswego librarian and Poetry Box curator Cyndie Glazer posted work by neighborhood poet John Huffman. Mr. Huffman dropped off the poems he wanted to share.

Remember to take a poem, leave a poem. Take a moment, leave inspired. Poetry Boxes—building community through poetry.