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- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2007: Is this a joke?
“One-Word Poem” by David R. Slavitt from William Henry Harrison and Other Poems (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2007: with veins, without mirth
“Weight, In Passing” by Andrea Haslanger, unpublished (circa 2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2007: reading in the dark
“Hymn for Lota” by Elizabeth Bishop from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2007: each lightbulb chooses a star
“The Converted” by Sophie Cabot Black from The Misunderstanding of Nature (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2007: wet black arrow, long pink dangle
“Benevolence” by Tony Hoagland from Donkey Gospel (1998)
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2007: 1,000 tulips burning in Amsterdam
“why things burn” by Daphne Gottlieb from Why Things Burn (2001)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2007: after things burn
“Ash” by W.S. Merwin from Selected Poems (1988)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2007: Down the rabbit hole
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll from Collected Stories
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2007: small civilities
“Anne” by Mary Oliver from New and Selected Poems (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2007: Audacity my roof
“Samarai Song” by Robert Pinsky from Jersey Rain (2000)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2007: Intestines of an emerald
“Death is a beautiful car” by Richard Brautigan from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2007: mud-luscious & puddle-wonderful
“if i have made,my lady,intricate” by E.E. Cummings from Selected Poems (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2007: boca innumerable
“El viento en la isla” by Pablo Neruda from Los Versos del Capitan (1952)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2007: dresses wider than doors
“House of Worth” by Robyn Schiff from Worth (2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2007: slip and sip, fib and rib
“Ghazal” by Emily Moore from The Yale Review, vol. 90, no. 1 (January 2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2007: Save a day.
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost from Collected Poems (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2007: The towers are incidental.
“Hum” by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2007: pious rape
“Chaos” by Edna St. Vincent Millay from Collected Poems
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2007: the tender machines of fact
“Captivity Narrative” by Rick Barot from Want (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2007: shorter than haiku
“Downhill” by Julia Vinograd from Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2007: Remember Sarah Stout
“Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout” by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2007: 100% cotton
“The Shirt” by Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2007: Since it’s his birthday…
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” by William Shakespeare from Macbeth (1603-6)
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2007: does your house have lions?
“what does a liver know of peace” by Sonia Sanchez from Does Your House Have Lions? (1997)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2007: Hold one bead
“Object Tension” by Kathleen Peirce from Mercy (1991)
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2007: alone too, too alone
“28 – Snowline” by John Berryman from The Dream Songs (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2007: some distant trembling warmth
“From the Adult Drive-In” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi from The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2007: the smell of scissors
“What the Angels Left” by Marie Howe from The Good Thief (1987)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2007: Un-hummm-m!
“Madam and the Phone Bill” by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems (1995)
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2007: what I always wish for
“The Wish” by Louise Glück from Meadowlands (1996)