Books purchased with “Poetry Now” Funds

Carol Stream Public Library

• Richard Jones, Apropos of Nothing
• G.E. Murray, Arts of a Cold Sun: Poems
• Elaine Equi, Cloud of Knowable Things: Poems
• Dean Young, Elegy on Toy Piano
• Allison Joseph, Imitation of Life
• David Wojahn, Interrogation Palace
• Maureen Seaton, Little Ice Age
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
• Quraysh Ali Lansana, They Shall Run

Columbia College & Library

• Mary Kinzie, Drift: Poems
• Alane Rollings, Logic of Opposites
• Jim Elledge, Various Envies: Poems
• Jerome Sala, Look Slimmer Instantly!: Poems
• Lisel Mueller, Dependencies: Poems
• Allison Joseph, Wordly Pleasures: Poems

College of DuPage / March 30, 2006

• African American Audio Experience (CD set includes poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks)
• Ana Castillo, My Father was a Toltec: and Selected Poems
• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States, Various Envies: Poems (Includes works of Sandra Cisneros)
• Stuart Dybek, Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems
• Ernest Hemingway, Complete Poems: Ernest Hemingway
• Lucia Perillo, Luck is Luck: Poems
• Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
• Michael Walleghen, Tall Birds Stalking
• Yvor Winters, Yvor Winters: Selected Poems

Elgin Community College & Library

• Coming Soon

Elmhurst College / November 3, 2005

• Coming Soon

Illinois College / November 17-18, 2005

• Michael Anania, Selected Poems
• Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible: Poems
• Lucia Cordell Getsi, Intensive Care
• Edward Hirsh, Wild Gratitude
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
• Lisel Mueller, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
• G.E. Murray, Walking the Blind Dog: Poems
• Michael van Walleghen, In the Black Window: New and Selected Poems
  

Kankakee Community College / September 29, 2005

• Ana Castillo, So Far From God
• Ana Castillo,Watercolor Women/opaque Men
• Maxine Chernoff, A boy in Winter, Evolution of the Bridge
• Maxine Chernoff, Some of Her Friends That Year
• Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman And Woman Hollering Creek
• Sandra Cisneros, Vintage Cisneros
• Stuart Dybek, Coast of Chicago, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
• Stuart Dybek, I Sailed With Magellan
• Lucia Cordell Getsi, Intensive Care Poems
• Edward Hirsch, The Demon and the Angel
• Edward Hirsch,Lay Back the Darkness
• Paul Hoover, Fables of Representation, Postmodern American Poetry
• Paul Hoover,Saigon, Illinois
• Angela Jackson, And All These Roads Be Luminous; Poems Selected and New
• John Knoepfle, Prayer Against Famine and Other Irish Poems

Kennedy Junior High School / October 20, 2005

• Coming Soon

Kewanee Public Library

book list coming soon

Knox College

• Coming Soon

Millikin University Library

book list coming soon

Peoria Public Library

• Stuart Dybek, Streets In Their Own Ink
• Elaine Equi, The Cloud of Knowable Things: Poems
• Allison Joseph, Imitation of Life
• Quraysh Lansana, Southsiide Rain
• G.E. Murray, Arts of a Cold Sun: Poems
• Alane Rollings, The Logic of Opposites
• Maureen Seaton, Little Ice Age
• Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems
• Michael Van Walleghen, In the Black Window: New and Selected Poems
• Dean Young, Elegy on Toy Piano

Richland Community College

• Kevin Stein, American Ghost Roses
• James McGowan, Benchmark: Anthology of Contemporary Illinois Poetry
• Kevin Stein & G.E. Murray, Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry
• Allison Joseph, Imitation of Life
• David Wright, A Liturgy for Stones
• Jeff Gundy, Rhapsody with Dark Mattter: Poems

Southern Illinois University

book list coming soon

Watseka, IL Public Library

• Janet Lewis, Selected Poems of Janet Lewis
• Yvor Winters, Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
• Kenneth Fearing, Kenneth Fearing Complete Poems
• Karl Shapiro, Karl Shapiro - Selected Poems
• John Knoepfle, Poems for the Sangamon
• Lisel Mueller, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
• Laurence Lieberman, New and Selected Poems
• Kevin Stein, American Ghost Roses

Western Illinois University / September 25, 2005

• Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems
• Dan Guillory, The Alligator Inventions
• Li-Young Lee, Books of My Nights: Poems
• Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems
• Yvor Winter: Selected Poems
• Stuart Dybek, Streets in Their Own Ink
• Albert Goldbarth, Budget Travels Through Time and Space
• Lucia Perillo, Luck is Luck: Poems
• Luis J. Rodriguez, My Nature is Hunger: New and Selected Poems 1989-2004
• Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems
• Kevin Stein, American Ghost Roses
• Kevin Stein, Bruised Paradise
• David Wojahn, Spirit Cabinet
• Dean Young, Elegy on a Toy Piano

Wheaton North High School

• Lisel Mueller, Alive Together
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems
• Haki Madhubuti, Groundwork
• Lucien Stryk, And Still the Birds Sing
• GE Murray, Walking the Blind Dog
• Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights
• Allison Joseph, Worldly Pleasures
• Jeanne Murray Walker, A Deed to the Light

Wheaton Warrenville South High School

• Kenneth Fearing, Selected Poems
• Ana Castillo, My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems
• Allison Joseph, Imitation of Life
• Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible
• Lucien Stryk, The Gift of Great Poetry
• Lisel Mueller, Alive Together
• Bruce Guernsey, January Thaw
• Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights
• G.E. Murray, Walking the Blind Dog
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems
• Dennis Schmitz, About Night