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- Poem-a-Day April 1, 2014: Vocabulary
“Vocabulary” by Jason Schneiderman from the Academy of American Poets (2012)
- Poem-a-Day April 2, 2014: Train Tracks
“Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change” by Naomi Shihab Nye
from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (1995)
- Poem-a-Day April 3, 2014: The Desert Night
“In the Desert” by Isaac E. Ronch from In the Desert and Other Poems (1970)
- Poem-a-Day April 4, 2014: A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted
“A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted” by John O’Donohue
from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (2008)
- Poem-a-Day April 5, 2014: Robin knows it best
“The Secret” by Anonymous from The Golden Book of Poetry (1947)
- Poem-a-Day April 6, 2014: There is no chance
“Sunflower Sonnet Number Two” by June Jordan
from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005)
- Poem-a-Day April 7, 2014: This is the forest primeval
“Evangeline” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from Evangeline (1847)
— Fun fact: copies for sale range from $0.81 to $91,800.00
- Poem-a-Day April 8, 2014: ants and ants
“Anxieties” by Donna Masini from the Academy of American Poets (2014)
- Poem-a-Day April 9, 2014: this cough i cough
“Does Your House Have Lions?” (excerpt) by Sonia Sanchez
from Does Your House Have Lions? (1997)
- Poem-a-Day April 10, 2014: Hands Wide Shut
“Prayer” by Robert Glück from the Academy of American Poets (2014)
- Poem-a-Day April 11, 2014: Eyes Close, Words Open
“Entre Lo Que Veo Y Digo… / Between What I See and What I Say…” by Octavio Paz
from Árbol Adentro / A Tree Within (1987), also included in
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987
- Poem-a-Day April 12, 2014: Disappearing
“Tigers” (for Eric Lemke 1979 – 2012) by Melissa Ginsburg
from the Academy of American Poets (2013)
- Poem-a-Day April 13, 2014: The Gorgeous Nothings
“[envelope A 252]” and “[envelope 320]” by Emily Dickinson
from The Gorgeous Nothings (2013) — originals 1760s-1770s, unpublished in poet’s lifetime
- Poem-a-Day April 14, 2014: Buddhist Math
“Imaginary Number” by Vijay Seshadri from Poetry Magazine (February 2012)
- Poem-a-Day April 16, 2014: Carnival of Force
“The Barnacle and the Gray Whale” by Cecilia Llompart
from the Academy of American Poets (2014)
- Poem-a-Day April 17, 2014: Eso es todo.
“Poema XX (Puedo Escribir / Tonight I Can Write)” by Pablo Neruda from Viente poemas de amor y una canción de desesperada / Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
- Poem-a-Day April 18, 2014: A Field Guide to North American Blurbs
“Untitled [July, waxwings]” by Lorine Niedecker from The Granite Pail:
The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker (1985)
- Poem-a-Day April 19, 2014: the girl inside
“Mama Said …” by Mary Moore Easter from Poetry Magazine (April 2013)
- Poem-a-Day April 20, 2014: Token
“Token Loss” by Kay Ryan from the Academy of American Poets (2014)
- Poem-a-Day April 21, 2014: Singing Whitman
“To thee old cause” by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass (1871 edition)
as sung by Daniel Redman (2012)
- Poem-a-Day April 22, 2014: Touched with Fire
“Rabbits and Fire” by Alberto Ríos from The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (2002)
- Poem-a-Day April 23, 2014: star-crossed
Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (1597) by William Shakespeare
- Poem-a-Day April 24, 2014: Pocket-Sized Indian
“Aware, Unaware” by Sherman Alexie from Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics (February 2011)
- Poem-a-Day April 25, 2014: def bemoan(): print(‘Alas!’)
code poetry from code poetry slams sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University (2013-2014)
- Poem-a-Day April 26, 2014: Sometimes I drop my spoon.
“The Little Boy and the Old Man” by Shel Silverstein from A Light in the Attic (1981)
- Poem-a-Day April 27, 2014: Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids
“Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids” by Alfred “Krip” Yuson
from Trading in Mermaids (1993), also discussed in The Phillipine Star
- Poem-a-Day April 28, 2014: Lenore (I Miss You)
“Lenore (I Miss You)” by MC Lars from The Edgar Allan Poe EP (2012),
based on “Lenore” (1850) by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poem-a-Day April 29, 2014: Flip-Flop
“Flounder” by Natasha Trethewey from Domestic Work (2000)
- Poem-a-Day April 30, 2014: Make a lot of wishes
“The Wish” by Louise Glück from Meadowlands (1996)