General

April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than to hear poets reading their own poems. Each day in April, the Bowdoin Library will share one reading at a display in H-L and on this web site. May you find comfort, resilience, enchantment, and connection through our offerings.

As we celebrate poets and poetry, we also express our esteem and gratitude for the organizations who have made recordings of poetry readings freely available for us to listen to, including the On Being Project, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Foundation, lyrikline, From the Fishouse, Poetry Out Loud, Open Culture, the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, iBiblio, BBC, and more.

National Poetry Month is sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, and 2021 marks the 25^th anniversary of the event.

Questions? Please contact Erin Valentino.

April 30 “Breaking Free,” written and read by Stuart Kestenbaum (1953- ), the Poet Laureate of Maine. From House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions, 2003). Video courtesy of the Academy of American Poets.	Watch
April 29 “Spinster,” written and read by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). From The Collected Poems (Harper & Row, 1981). Audio courtesy of BBC.	Listen
April 28 “The New Decade,” written and read by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 4, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets. Audio courtesy of Poedtry Foundation.	Listen
April 27 “The Naming of Cats,” writted and read by T S. Eliot (1888-1965). From Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (Harcourt, Brace, 1939). Audio courtesy of Poets Reading Poetry.	Listen
April 26 “Quarantine,” written and read by Eavan Boland (1944-2020). Boland taught at Bowdoin as a Visiting Professor; the College also awarded the poet an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 2004. Originally published in Code (Carcanet, 2001). Video courtesy of PBS Newshour.	Watch
April 25 “How to Triumph Like a Girl,” written and read by Ada Limón (1976- ). From Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015).
April 24 “Design in America,” written and read by Betsy Scholl (1945- ). From Late Psalm (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Audio courtesy of From the Fishouse: an Audio Archive of Emerging Poets.
April 23 “Maine Coast,” written and read by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. Featured in PoetryNow, 2016. Audio couertesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 22 “Eagle Poem,” written and read by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (1951- ). From In Mad Love and War. (Wesleyan, 1990). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 21 “Personal Helicon,” written and read by Seamus Heaney (1939-2013 ). First published in Death of a Naturalist in 1966. Audio courtesy of iBiblio.
April 20 “Double Dutch,” written and read by Gregory Pardlo (1968- ). First published in the Cave Canem Anthology, 2001. Audio courtesy of From the Fishouse: an Audio Archive of Emerging Poets.
April 19 “The Song of the Old Mother,” written and read by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Originally published in The Wind Among the Reeds (E. Mathews, 1899). Audio courtesy of lyrikline.
April 18 “Kindness,” written and read by Naomi Shihab Nye (1952- ). From Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Eight Mountain Press, 1995). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 17 “How to Continue,” written and read by John Ashbery (1927-2017). From Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (Ecco, 2007). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 16 “Flamingo Watching,” written and read by Kay Ryan (1945- ). From Flamingo Watching: Poems (Copper Beech Press, 1994). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 15 “Elegy for My Sadness,” written ands read by Chen Chen (1989- ). From When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017). Audio courtesy of From the Fishouse: an Audio Archive of Emerging Poets.
April 14 “To Elsie,” written and read by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). From The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I, 1909-1939 (New Directions, 1939). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 13 “Queerodactyl,” written and read by Roy G. Guzmán. Originally published in Poetry Magazine (November 2017). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 12 “The Peace of Wild Things,” written and ready by Wendell Berry (1934- ). From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 2009). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 11 “Stardate Number 18628.190,” written and read by Nikki Giovanni (1943- ). From The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow, 1996). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 10 “Como Tú / Like You / Like Me,” written and read by Richard Blanco (1968- ). From How to Love a Country. (Beacon Press, 2019). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 9 “Aimless Love,” written and read by Billy Collins (1941- ). From Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Audio courtesy of lyrikline.
April 8 “[as freedom is a breakfastfood],” written and read by e.e. cummings (1894-1962). From Complete poems, 1904-1962 (Liveright, 1994). Audio courtesy of Poetry Foundation.
April 7 “We Real Cool,” written and read by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). From The Bean Eaters (Harpers, 1960). Audio courtesy of Poets.org.	Listen
April 6 “At Popham Beach,” written by Thorpe Moeckel (1971- ) and read by him at Bowdoin College in September of 2008. Originally published in Poetry Magazine, May 2002. Audio courtesy of From the Fishhouse: an Audio Archive of Emerging Poets.
April 5 “Wild Geese,” written and read by Mary Oliver (1935-2019). From Dreamwork (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 4 “Freedom,” written by Tyehimba Jess (1965- ) and read by him at Bowdoin College in April of 2005. Originally published in Ploughshares in 2002. Audio courtesy of From the Fishouse: an Audio Archive of Emerging Poets.
April 3 “spring song,” written and read by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). From Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA Editions Ltd., 1980). Audio courtesy of The Poetry Foundation.
April 2 “Wade in the Water,” written and read by Tracy K. Smith (1972- ). From Wade in the Water: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2018). Smith was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2017. Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.
April 1 “Headfirst,” written and read by Ocean Vuong (1988- ). From Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Audio courtesy of The On Being Project.

Did you know that the Library has institutional subscriptions to several leading newspapers?

As a current student, faculty, or staff member, you can enjoy access to current and archival content, apps, and more!

• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• Portland Press Herald and Times Record
• Financial Times

National Poetry Month April 2020

Normally held under the Calder mobile in H-L Library, our annual Pop-Up Poetry event took a turn this year.  For five consecutive days in April, while the college was enduring the COVID-19 crisis, members of the Bowdoin community helped us celebrate National Poetry Month by reading a favorite poem live on Facebook from their homes or offices.  Let these voices lighten your day — have a listen…

There is a lot of news coverage about COVID-19 out there, but what about the research?  Many academic publishers and platforms are compiling scholarship related to Novel Coronavirus Disease available and making it available to the public.  Check out the resources below to see what researchers are saying.

LitCovid from NCBI/NLM – LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access peer-review articles. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.

Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center – Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center contains expert, curated information for the research and health community on Novel Coronavirus (also referred to as COVID-19 and its temporary title 2019-nCoV). All resources, including every article relevant article to Coronavirus, SARS, and MERS,  are free to access and include guidelines for clinicians and patients.

New England Journal of Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine’s collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines, and commentary.

The BMJ – Research, News, Editorials, and other resources from The BMJ about the coronavirus outbreak. All articles and resources are freely available.

American Society for Microbiology  – Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources – American Society for Microbiology is providing free access to nearly 50 research articles published over the last year in ASM’s 16 scholarly journals to support research efforts and communications about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Springer Nature – SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 – Springer Nature is providing direct access to related research articles from their journals, as well as additional commentary on this topic and relevant books. All content listed here is free to access.

Chongqing Weipu Information Co., Ltd – In order to facilitate the education, work and life of the general public, Chongqing Weipu Information Co., Ltd., (formerly known as the Database Research Center of the Chongqing Branch of the China Institute of Science and Technology Information)  is open to readers for free during the epidemic prevention and control period.

Oxford University Press – Oxford University Press has made content from online resources and leading journals freely accessible to assist researchers, medical professionals, policy makers, and others who are working to address this potential health crisis.

Taylor & Francis – Coronavirus Reading List – All coronavirus-related, peer-reviewed research published in Taylor & Francis journals is now free to access and available for anyone to read.

Wiley Online Library – Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak – Wiley has made the relevant research articles, book chapters and entries in their major references freely available in support of the global efforts in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and further research in this disease and similar viral respiratory infections.

Elsevier Coronavirus Research Repository – Elsevier Coronavirus Research Repository, presenting scholarly articles on COVID-19, SARS, MERS and other coronaviruses research

The Lancet – COVID-19 Resource Centre – The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. All content listed on this page is free to access.

SSRN – Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research – SSRN’s Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Research page provides a curated view into the early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain and manage this disease. Research on SSRN is free to download. It is important to note that these papers have not benefited from the pivotal role of peer-review, which validates and improves the quality of final published journal articles.

Cell Press Coronavirus Resource Hub – Cell Press has compiled  a free-to-access and open archive research related to the biology and spread of coronaviruses. New research and commentaries will be added as papers appear online.

You can also keep up-to-date on the Coronavirus Disease situation with the Centers for Disease Control at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html

Information about  Bowdoin’s response can be found at https://www.bowdoin.edu/covid-19/index.html

Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s spring 2020 exhibit: Wanderlust.

Meet the artists and talk to them about their travels.

Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.

If you are a faculty member, you may puzzle over the best way to explain citation and attribution to your students. It’s complicated–there are the formats and styles of said citations in MLA, APA, ACS, Chicago, and more, and each with its own idiosyncratic management of periods, commas, and italics. There are the purpose and function of attribution. And, then there are the ethical and legal dimensions of attribution, which range from giving credit where credit is due to copyright and fair use.

Students must wonder about the arcane and seemingly infinite conventions for documenting information and for making their contributions to scholarly knowledge. We know that many students worry about accusations of plagiarism, their anxiety fueled by their uncertainty about their professors’ expectations, how attribution and citation work in an academic context, and how to find their own voices in the process of synthesizing ‘authoritative’ ones through their writing.

This panel will explore the role of attribution in student writing from a variety of perspectives: is there pedagogical value in asking students to adhere to disciplinary conventions for documentation . . . or is it a technical afterthought? What is the nature of our institutional messaging to students about ‘citation,’ ‘academic honesty,’ and ‘plagiarism’? What definitions and structures of expertise and authority do we privilege in our approaches to the role of attribution in student work, and how do these definitions and structures contribute to student learning and to students seeing themselves as experts? How can we use a topic like bibliographic citation and attribution to show students the importance of membership in a community (or communities) of practice?

Panelists

• Kathryn Byrnes, Director of the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching
• Karen Jung, Music Librarian; Coordinator of Research and Instructional Services
• Meredith McCarroll, Director of Writing and Rhetoric and of the First Year Seminar Program
• Katherine O’Grady, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Community Standards
• Jessica Perez, THRIVE Director

Moderator

Erin Valentino, Associate Librarian for Research, Instruction, and Outreach

The panel will take place on Friday, February 21, 8:45-10:00 a.m. in Nixon Lounge, H-L Library. COFFEE and a light continental breakfast will be served.

Questions? Please contact Erin Valentino, evalenti@bowdoin.edu.

The Library provides access to a fabulous selection of online primary and secondary resources for research on African American history– take a look!

• Accessible Archives (includes several historical African American newspapers)
• African American Artists on Kanopy Streaming Video (films)
• African American Music Reference
• African American Periodicals 1825-1995
• African American Newspapers 1827-1998
• African Newspapers 1800-1922
• Afro-Americana Imprints
• American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922
• American Music (includes African American genre)
• American Slavery Collection
• Black Freedom Struggle, including the NAACP papers and Plantation Records
• Black Studies Center
• Chicago Defender Archive 1910-1975
• Contemporary World Music
• New York Amsterdam News Archive 1922-1993
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• Slavery in America and the World

Please join us for the opening of The Ramp Gallery’s fall 2019 exhibit: Perceptions of Beauty.

Thursday, October 24, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

The Ramp Gallery is located in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, basement level, and features student art work.