April is Poetry Month! We have some great titles in the first floor lounge that showcase the different ways poetry can speak to your heart.
Derek Walcott, Winner of the Nobel Prize and Saint Lucia’s favorite son, died last month. We have a wonderful introduction to his decades of work Selected Poems Derek Walcott, Edited by Edward Baugh
The Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi is beloved by lovers of poetry all over the world. If you know his poetry, you may want to check out a book about his life: Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch
Somos Como Las Nubes/We Are Like the Clouds is a moving and beautifully illustrated account of the tragic migrations of thousands of children in Central America to seek refuge in the US. The poet, Jorge Argueta, was himself a refugee from El Salvador in the 1980s.