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Poem-a-Day April 1, 2018: Happy National Poetry Month!
Introduction by June Jordan
from Things that I do in the dark (1977) -
Poem-a-Day April 2, 2018: Instructions on Not Giving Up
"Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón
from the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (May 15, 2017) -
Poem-a-Day April 3, 2018: Dara and California
"Checking Out" by Dara Weinberg from The Hopkins Review (Winter 2011) -
Poem-a-Day April 4, 2018: Persona
"The Santa Ana" by Paul Tran
from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database -
Poem-a-Day April 5, 2018: Spend all you have
"Barter" by Sara Teasdale
from Love Songs (1917) -
Poem-a-Day April 6, 2018: Killdeer
"Killdeer" by Nick Flynn
from the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (January 4, 2018) -
Poem-a-Day April 7, 2018: Rooting for Everybody Black
"'I'm Rooting for Everybody Black'" by Cortney Lamar Charleston
from the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (January 15, 2018) -
Poem-a-Day April 8, 2018: The Hand That Cradles The Rock
"Promittor" by Rita Mae Brown
from The Hand That Cradles The Rock (1971) -
Poem-a-Day April 9, 2018: I didn’t know I was blue
"Spoken For" by Li-Young Lee
from The Undressing (2018) -
Poem-a-Day April 10, 2018: Word Count
"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel
from Forgiveness Parade (1998) -
Poem-a-Day April 11, 2018: wordless replies
"The Measure" by Georgia Douglas Johnson
from The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) -
Poem-a-Day April 12, 2018: Heartbeat of the pulsar
"Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich
from The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 -
Poem-a-Day April 13, 2018: The secret anniversaries of the heart
"Holidays" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Kéramos: And Other Poems (1878) -
Poem-a-Day April 14, 2018: the beautiful, needful thing
"Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden
from The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden (1966) -
Poem-a-Day April 15, 2018: Praise crazy. Praise sad.
"Praise the Rain" by Joy Harjo
from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015) -
Poem-a-Day April 16, 2018: kinds of rain
"Rain" by Beatrice Goldsmith
from Poetry Magazine (September 1933) -
Poem-a-Day April 17, 2018: gravity and waggery
"For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" by Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno (written 1760s; published 1954) -
Poem-a-Day April 18, 2018: Ode to the Pubic Hair Stuck in My Throat
"Ode to the Pubic Hair Stuck in My Throat" by Hieu Minh Nguyen
from Button Poetry (2017) -
Poem-a-Day April 19, 2018: a parka / for your soul
"Expect Nothing" by Alice Walker
from Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems (1973) -
Poem-a-Day April 20, 2018: not pick one
"Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
from Renascence and Other Poems (1917) -
Poem-a-Day April 21, 2018: taxi at the end of the world
"The Boatman" by Carolyn Forché
from Poetry Magazine (October 2016) -
Poem-a-Day April 22, 2018: Behold this compost!
"This Compost" by Walt Whitman
from Leaves of Grass (third edition, 1860) -
Poem-a-Day April 23, 2018: Since it's his birthday…
"Sonnet 65" by William Shakespeare
from a 1609 quatro reprinted in Shakespeares Sonnets & Poems (2006) -
Poem-a-Day April 24, 2018: 5-7-5
[Untitled Haiku] by Yosa Buson
as translated and reprinted in Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (2009) -
Poem-a-Day April 25, 2018: nothing really happened
"Incident" by Natasha Trethewey
from Native Guard (2007) -
Poem-a-Day April 26, 2018: Is that a poem in your pocket?
"Hymn for Lota" by Elizabeth Bishop
from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments (2006) -
Poem-a-Day April 27, 2018: an appointment with my anguish
"The Sun Got All Over Everything" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
from Rocket Fantastic (2017) -
Poem-a-Day April 28, 2018: not an elegy
"not an elegy for Mike Brown" by Danez Smith
from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database -
Poem-a-Day April 29, 2018: Bent to the Earth
"Bent to the Earth" by Blas Manuel De Luna
from Bent to the Earth (2006) -
Poem-a-Day April 30, 2018: No clocks
"End" by Langston Hughes
included in his Selected Poems (1959)