2025 Spring - Focus on Poetry - Honors College at Perimeter Book Club - GSU Library Research Guides at Georgia State University

Welcome!

During spring semester, the Honor's Book Club is focusing on poetry!

Check this space for book club info and Perimeter events throughout the semester.

The monthly poetry packets for book club meetings can be picked up at the library's front desk or downloaded here -

Poetry in the Garden
Thursday April 17th
Decatur Campus Botanical Garden
11:30am
With readings from featured poet Dr. Lee Furey! Contact Valerie Matthews to sign up to read a poem - vmatthews@gsu.edu

Academy of American Poets
The site was launched in 1996, becoming the first online resource for poems, poets’ biographies, essays about poetry, and materials for K–12 teachers.
How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch (first chapter)
Curious about poetry, but don’t know where or how to begin? We’ve reprinted the first chapter from the book How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch. Its 16 sections provide strategies for reading poems, and each section has plenty of links to examples of poems in our archive to illustrate the points.
Poetry Foundation
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Poetry Society of America
The nation's oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910.