Interactive Book Displays for Poetry Month!

ETHS Libraries has pulled together some books of poetry and a selection of novels-in-verse (*), all of which are available as e-books via eReadIllinois/Axis 360 and Overdrive Sora when you log in using your ETHS credentials (**). Most of these books are also available as physical texts in either East or Central Library.

Click on a cover to access that e-book on one of the platforms (though it's possible the book may be available on more than one)!

PLUS: click on any of the poets featured in the Poetry Month photo collage and you will be taken to PoetryFoundation.org's entry on that individual, where you can read a brief biography and some of that poet's notable works.

* A novel-in-verse is a novel wherein the story is told through a series of connected poems instead of a more traditional prose form (think Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X, and pretty much everything Ellen Hopkins writes).

** For step-by-step instructions on how to access these platforms, click HERE (for Sora) and HERE (for eReadIllinois). And for even more e-book displays, visit the Interactive Books Displays page on the ETHS Remote Learning Library Resources website.

Presenter Videos!

1. excerpt from 2010 documentary "Louder Than A Bomb" featuring Adam Gottlieb (then a senior at Northside College Prep High School) performing his poem "Poet Breathe Now" at the 2008 Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival

2. Adam Gottlieb performing his poem "We Need Peace" at Thornwood High School, posted by Adam Gottlieb (2015)

3. Darius Parker reading his poem "Black Boys" posted by T-WAAP: Teen Writers and Artists Project (2018)

4. Darius Parker performing his poem "Home sounds like..." posted by Chicago Fringe Opera (2021) [with Composer & Co-Librettist Seth Boustead and Cellist Lia Kohl]