2021 Durham Tech Library Poetry Month Bookmarks!

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Thanks to everyone who sent me your favorite poem! 

This year’s poetry month bookmarks contain some nature poems, some poems about peeking at other people’s houses (consensually), an ode to James Baldwin, and several more. 

screenshots of the bookmark images to accompany 2021's poems

Click through to download previous years’ and 2021’s Durham Tech Library Poetry Month bookmarks, which include Joy Harjo’s “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith’s “little prayer,” Kay Ryan’s “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz’s “Halley’s Comet,” Rita Dove’s “My Mother Enters the Work Force,” Karl Shapiro’s “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman’s “In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass’s “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes’s “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte’s “Horses Moving on the Snow.”

The file is a pdf, so you can print your own (and color them in, if that’s your thing). 

Click on the image of the bookmark to view, print, and download. 

2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Joy Harjo's “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith's “little prayer,” Kay Ryan's “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz's “Halley’s Comet,” and Rita Dove's “My Mother Enters the Work Force”
2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Joy Harjo’s “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith’s “little prayer,” Kay Ryan’s “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz’s “Halley’s Comet,” and Rita Dove’s “My Mother Enters the Work Force”
2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Karl Shapiro's “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman's "In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass's “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes's “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte's “Horses Moving on the Snow.”


2021 Poetry Month bookmarks: Karl Shapiro’s “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman’s “In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass’s “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes’s “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte’s “Horses Moving on the Snow.”
2-sided bookmarks with image on one side and poem on other side. Poems consist of Mary Oliver's "Hummingbirds" with geometric hummingbird outline on back, Amorak Huey's "We Were All Odysseus in those Days" with an image of a ship, Spartan helmet, and softball and glove, Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life" with an image of a coffee cup and wine glass, W.S. Merwin's "For a Coming Extinction" with gray whales, and Francisco X. Alarcon's "Ode to My Shoes" with a pair of canvas tennis shoes.
2019 Poetry Month bookmarks: “Hummingbirds” by Mary Oliver, “We Were All Odysseus in those Days” by Amorak Huey, “The Good Life” Tracy K. Smith, “For a Coming Extinction” by 
W.S. Merwin, and “Ode to My Shoes” by Francisco X. Alarcon
2017 poetry month bookmarks: Anecdote of Men by the Thousand by Wallace Stevens, The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz by Alicia Ostriker, Cotton Candy by Edward Hirsch, and My Madonna by Robert W. Service
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: “Anecdote of Men by the Thousand” by Wallace Stevens, “The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz” by Alicia Ostriker, “Cotton Candy” by Edward Hirsch, and “My Madonna” by Robert W. Service
2017 poetry month bookmarks: Sea Grapes by Derrek Walcott, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings, [a haiku rumination on sushi] by Yosa Buson, and Exit by Rita Dove
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: “Sea Grapes” by Derrek Walcott, “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by e.e. cummings, [a haiku rumination on sushi] by Yosa Buson, and “Exit” by Rita Dove
2017 poetry month bookmarks: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, Next Time Ask More Questions by Naomi Shihab Nye, The Tyger by William Blake, and El Poema by Homero Aridjis (translated by Eliot Weinberger)
2017 Poetry Month bookmarks: “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams, “Next Time Ask More Questions” by Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Tyger” by William Blake, and “El Poema” by Homero Aridjis (translated by Eliot Weinberger)

Happy Poetry Month! Questions? Trouble downloading? Let us know! 

About Meredith Lewis

Meredith is a librarian at Durham Tech on both the Main and Orange County Campuses.