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Poem-a-Day April 1, 2017: A Perfect Mess
"A Perfect Mess" by Mary Karr
from Poetry Magazine (December 2012) -
Poem-a-Day April 2, 2017: what's underneath
"Notes on the Below" by Ada Limón
from the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (November 29, 2016) -
Poem-a-Day April 3, 2017: Supporting the weight of condors
"Breathing" by Mark O'Brien
from The Man in the Iron Lung (1997) -
Poem-a-Day April 4, 2017: Audre Our Lorde
"A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde
from The Black Unicorn (1977) -
Poem-a-Day April 5, 2017: Clifton Street
"poem in praise of menstruation" by Lucille Clifton
from The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965–2010 (2012) -
Poem-a-Day April 6, 2017: Hungry Gorge
"A Divine Image" by William Blake
from Songs of Experience (1794)* (* rare edition — you will not find this poem in most printed versions of Songs of Experience) -
Poem-a-Day April 7, 2017: Put A Ring On It
"Another Lullaby for Insomniacs" by A.E. Stallings
from Poetry Magazine (April 2004) -
Poem-a-Day April 8, 2017: Fourth Circuit
"Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye
from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (1995) -
Poem-a-Day April 9, 2017: Feared Drowned
"Feared Drowned" by Sharon Olds
from Satan Says (1980) -
Poem-a-Day April 10, 2017: Favorite Daughter
"Flowers" by Imani Cezanne
from Button Poetry (2015) -
Poem-a-Day April 11, 2017: O Public Road
"Song of the Open Road, IV" by Walt Whitman
from Leaves of Grass (1891-92 edition) -
Poem-a-Day April 12, 2017: under the bed
"Whitman, 1841" by Rick Barot
from Best American Poetry 2016 -
Poem-a-Day April 13, 2017: The Unwritten
"The Unwritten" by W.S. Merwin
from Migration: New & Selected Poems (2007) -
Poem-a-Day April 14, 2017: bathroom telephones
"Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World" by Sherman Alexie
from Face (2009) -
Poem-a-Day April 15, 2017: The Founding Mother
"Winnie" by Gwendolyn Brooks
from Poetry Magazine (October/November 1987) -
Poem-a-Day April 16, 2017: Help me to shatter this darkness
"As I Grew Older" by Langston Hughes
from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1995) -
Poem-a-Day April 18, 2017: Asleep You Become A Continent
"Asleep You Become A Continent" by Francisco Aragón
from Glow of Our Sweat (2010) -
Poem-a-Day April 18, 2017: Say Yes
"Say Yes" by Andrea Gibson
from Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns (2008) -
Poem-a-Day April 19, 2017: Split This Rock
"A Few Reasons to Oppose The War" by Lisa Suhair Majaj
from Geographies of Light (2009) -
Poem-a-Day April 20, 2017: ‘Twas brillig
"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872) -
Poem-a-Day April 21, 2017: The J Church Line
"The J Car" by Thom Gunn
from The Man with Night Sweats (1992) -
Poem-a-Day April 22, 2017: Track Shoe
"Earth Day on the Bay" by Gary Soto
from the Academy of American Poets (2016) -
Poem-a-Day April 23, 2017: hey nonny, nonny
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more" by William Shakespeare
from Much Ado About Nothing (1598) -
Poem-a-Day April 24, 2017: the amount of wonder
"Above the Thin Shell of the World" by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database (2016) -
Poem-a-Day April 25, 2017: forsaken city
"Wife's Disaster Manual" by Deborah Paredez
from Poetry Magazine (September 2012) -
Poem-a-Day April 26, 2017: death and fertility
"Demeter's Prayer to Hades" by Rita Dove
from Mother Love (1996) -
Poem-a-Day April 27, 2017: young, lucky, and sad
Excerpt by Claudia Rankine
from Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004) -
Poem-a-Day April 28, 2017: the mundane
"The Zen of Housework" by Al Zolynas
from The New Physics (1979) -
Poem-a-Day April 29, 2017: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
"The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poetical Works (1904) -
Poem-a-Day April 30, 2017: the last sweet bite
"Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo
from The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994)