Bonus Poetry Week Content
Bonus Poetry Week Content
Presenter Videos
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
Adam Gottlieb performing his poem "We Need Peace" at Thornwood High School, posted by Adam Gottlieb (2015)
Darius Parker reading his poem "Black Boys" posted by T-WAAP: Teen Writers and Artists Project (2018)
Darius Parker performing his poem "Home sounds like..." posted by Chicago Fringe Opera (2021) [with Composer & Co-Librettist Seth Boustead and Cellist Lia Kohl]
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.
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 Library Resources website.
Click on any of the people featured in the Poetry Month photo collage above and you will be taken to PoetryFoundation.org's entry on that poet, where you can read a brief biography and some of their notable works.