Poetry Books & More

Booklists

Poetry Organizations

Past Poet Laureates

E-Media

Use your library card and PIN to access these resources.

Classes & Databases

Use your library card and PIN to access these resources.

Back

Find A Library

Support Your Library

Why support the Library?

The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States.

Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.

With more people than ever before using the library—a record 17 million last year alone—your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive.

How to support the Library

You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways:

Join a “Friends” group. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. For more information click here or talk to your local librarian.

Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. The Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Library enhancement programs such as adult and early literacy, children and teen reading clubs, technology, and cultural programs. Foundation members receive a variety of benefits with their membership. For more information, see http://www.lfla.org.

Make a donation by check to the Los Angeles Public Library and send it to:
Support the Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles CA 90071 or call (213) 228-7272.

Los Angeles Public Library

Booklists

Poetry Organizations

Past Poet Laureates

E-Media

Classes & Databases

A portrait of the self as nation : new and selected poems

Afterland : poems

Blackacre

DMZ Colony

Eye level : poems

Further adventures in monochrome

Ghost of

Interrogation room

Loose Strife

Nightingale

Not Here

Sightseer in this killing city

Soft science

The darkened temple

The maze of transparencies

The undressing : poems

When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities

World of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments