What’s your favorite poem?

My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite poems to share. (To find links to some of the poems, visit this link: bit.ly/favoritepoems):

“A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert
“The Canonization” by John Donne
“The City of Is” by Christabel LaMotte (fictional poem in A. S. Byatt’s Possession)
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. CUMMINGS
“Lightly Stepped a Yellow Star” by Emily Dickinson
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The Orange” by Wendy Cope
“The Plain Sense of Things” by Wallace Stevens
“The Problem” by Jane Hirshfield
“Snow Day” by Billy Collins
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens
“The Tiger” by Nael
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
“Yes, Think” by Ruth Stone
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.