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- Poem-a-Day, March 25, 2011: Triangle Fire
“Shirt” by Robert Pinsky from The Want Bone (1990)
- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2011: Mammoth Cheese
“Ode on the Mammoth Cheese” by James McIntyre from Poems of James McIntyre (1889)
Also Very Bad Poetry (2007), edited by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2011: windflowers
“love is a deep and a dark and a lonely” by Carl Sandburg from Honey and Salt (1953)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2011: narrow aisles
“Checking Out” by Dara Weinberg from The Hopkins Review (Winter 2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2011: rememory
“The Crossroads” by Joshua Mehigan from Poetry magazine (Feb. 2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2011: Cleaning up the place.
“Mary” by Patty Griffin from Flaming Red (1998)
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2011: Geophagy
“The Dirt-Eaters” by Elizabeth Alexander from The Venus Hottentot (1990)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2011: A long, slow walk
“Millets in full rows” from Shin Ching (~600 B.C.), compiled by Confucius, as reproduced in Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres by editor/translator Wai-Lim Yip
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2011: Factory of Tears
“What would I wish for” by Valzhyna Mort from Factory of Tears (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2011: civilaries
“Anne” by Mary Oliver from The River Styx (1972),
also included in New and Selected Poems (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2011: This page will not be white.
“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems (1995)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2011: Why is the Color of Snow?
“Why is the Color of Snow?” by Brenda Shaughnessy from Human Dark with Sugar (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2011: ragged meadow of my soul
“if i have made,my lady,intricate” by E.E. Cummings from Is 5 (1926)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2011: the sound of apples falling
“Falling: The Code” by Li-Young Lee from Rose (1986)
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2011: Lorde, Audre
“Echoes” by Audre Lorde from The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993)
Also “Poetry Is Not A Luxury” from Sister Outsider (1984) by Audre Lorde
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2011: beautiful accident
“The Kiss” by Stephen Dunn from Everything Else in the World (2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2011: restless.
“Travel” by Edna St. Vincent Millay from Second April (1921)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2011: one single thing
“Peanut-Butter Sandwich” by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2011: Don’t forget the chickens.
“Home to Roost” by Kay Ryan from The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2009)
- Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2011: a sound but half its own
“Mont Blanc” by Percy Bysshe Shelley from History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2011: two birds i’ the cage
“No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison” by William Shakespeare
from The Tragedy of King Lear (1606)
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2011: Arkansas
“Black bird, red wing” by Nickole Brown from The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day (2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2011: Berkeley Street Cannibals
“Ballad” by Julia Vinograd from Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2011: 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 27, 2011: The Look
“The Look” by Sara Teasdale from Rivers to the Sea (1915)
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2011: a blood filled baton
“Woofer” by Terrance Hayes from Wind in a Box (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2011: ellenishaiku.com
ellenishaiku.com by Watershed Company
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2011: The Poem Said
“The Poem Said” by Franz Wright from The beforelife: poems (2001)