The Edwin Markham House contains a collection of poetry books, now over a thousand donated, along with anthologies, reference books, and small press publications. The library is located on the second floor, which also has a comfortable reading/writing room equipped with a copier. Downstairs, a resource room contains Markham’s original bookcase, now holding poetry books for children — classics, new publications and reference books for those interested in teaching poetry to their classes. This section has television, DVD’s, and magnetic boards for individual poetry writing.
Our catalogue of books is online and can be accessed by visiting The Naomi Clark Libary through LibraryThing. Books are to be used as reference at the house; they are not available for borrowing.
The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society library and archives are also housed here. Yuki Teikei uses the Markham House for its regular meetings.
The children’s library was made possible by a grant from Air Systems Foundation, Inc. Both libraries are open to book donations; we ask that you go through your own library and set aside what you can spare for the Markham House. We are particularly interested in California poets and readers who have appeared at Poetry Center San Jose in past years.