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- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2008: forty-three giant steps backwards
“The Shoes of Wandering” by Galway Kinnell from The Book of Nightmares (1971)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2008: what i think when i ride the train
“what i think when i ride the train” by Lucille Clifton from Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2008: love-plucked
“monster” by Rose Polenzani from self-published untitled chapbook (late 1990s)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2008: seethes like a billboard
“Yellow Light” by Garrett Kaoru Hongo from Yellow Light (1982)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2008: shorter than haiku
“Jamesian” by Thom Gunn from The Man with Night Sweats (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2008: the art of losing
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
Also “Chapter 2: A Made Thing” from How To Read A Poem by Edward Hirsch
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2008: a kind of gore
“The Horses” by Rick Barot from Want (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2008: the look
“The Look” by Sara Teasdale from Rivers to the Sea (1915)
Also Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2008: Quoth the raven
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe from The Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner (1849)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2008: Angels were not
“This is not a love poem, 1895” by Maia McAleavey, unpublished (2001)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2008: belly-scuttling
“Hutch” by Atsuro Riley from Romey’s Order (2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2008: a little paradigm
“Witchgrass” by Louise Glück from The Wild Iris (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2008: lady i swear by all flowers
“since feeling is first” by E.E. Cummings from Selected Poems (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2008: apparition
“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound from Personae (1926)
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2008: Because I could not stop (for death)
“Belarusian I” by Valzhyna Mort from Factory of Tears (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2008: slow heat
“Warming Her Pearls” by Carol Ann Duffy from Selling Manhattan (1987)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2008: always divided
“Teachers” by W.S. Merwin from The Second Four Books of Poems (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2008: 60 of 244
“(Blind) Fiddler Jones” by Edgar Lee Masters from Spoon River Anthology (1915)
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2008: imitating spring
“Parsley” by Rita Dove from Museum (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2008: lips like a bad ventriloquist’s
“Everything I Needed to Know” by Karl Elder from Mead (2005)
Also “Don Dada on the Down Low Getting Godly in His Game: Between and Beyond Play and Prayer in the Abecedarius” by Matthea Harvey, American Poet Magazine (spring 2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2008: a different kind of blood
“Secrecy” by Margaret Atwood from The Door (2007)
- Poem-a-(earth)day, April 22, 2008: footholds, foothills, swollen feet
“Eagle Rock” by Bly Pope from Masque magazine (spring 2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2008: sweet thief
“Sonnet 35” by William Shakespeare from Sonnets (1609)
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2008: vital information
“Giving Blood” by Sherman Alexie from This Business of Fancydancing (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2008: dragged down deeper
“Twenty-One Love Poems” by Adrienne Rich from The Dream of A Common Language (1978)
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2008: The kind you see
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion (twelfth century) by Chrétien de Troyes
- Poem-a-Yesterday, April 27, 2008: lovely, dark and deep
“She tells her love while half asleep” by Robert Graves
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2008: kempt
“Early in the Morning” by Li-Young Lee from Rose (1986)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2008: dark chivalries
“By Chivalries as tiny” by Emily Dickinson from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2008: So.
“Out, Out —” by Robert Frost from Collected Poems (1969)