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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)
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 3, 2018: Dara and California
"Checking Out" by Dara Weinberg from The Hopkins Review (Winter 2011)
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Poem-a-Day April 4, 2018: Persona
"The Santa Ana" by Paul Tran
from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database
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Poem-a-Day April 5, 2018: Spend all you have
"Barter" by Sara Teasdale
from Love Songs (1917)
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Poem-a-Day April 6, 2018: Killdeer
"Killdeer" by Nick Flynn
from the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day (January 4, 2018)
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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)
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 9, 2018: I didn’t know I was blue
"Spoken For" by Li-Young Lee
from The Undressing (2018)
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Poem-a-Day April 10, 2018: Word Count
"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel
from Forgiveness Parade (1998)
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Poem-a-Day April 11, 2018: wordless replies
"The Measure" by Georgia Douglas Johnson
from The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918)
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Poem-a-Day April 12, 2018: Heartbeat of the pulsar
"Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich
from The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970
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Poem-a-Day April 13, 2018: The secret anniversaries of the heart
"Holidays" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Kéramos: And Other Poems (1878)
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Poem-a-Day April 14, 2018: the beautiful, needful thing
"Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden
from The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden (1966)
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Poem-a-Day April 15, 2018: Praise crazy. Praise sad.
"Praise the Rain" by Joy Harjo
from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015)
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Poem-a-Day April 16, 2018: kinds of rain
"Rain" by Beatrice Goldsmith
from Poetry Magazine (September 1933)
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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)
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 19, 2018: a parka / for your soul
"Expect Nothing" by Alice Walker
from Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems (1973)
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Poem-a-Day April 20, 2018: not pick one
"Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
from Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
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Poem-a-Day April 21, 2018: taxi at the end of the world
"The Boatman" by Carolyn Forché
from Poetry Magazine (October 2016)
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Poem-a-Day April 22, 2018: Behold this compost!
"This Compost" by Walt Whitman
from Leaves of Grass (third edition, 1860)
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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)
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 25, 2018: nothing really happened
"Incident" by Natasha Trethewey
from Native Guard (2007)
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 27, 2018: an appointment with my anguish
"The Sun Got All Over Everything" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
from Rocket Fantastic (2017)
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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
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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)
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Poem-a-Day April 30, 2018: No clocks
"End" by Langston Hughes
included in his Selected Poems (1959)
- 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)
- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2012: Happy National Poetry Month!
“The Aerodynamics” by Rick Bursky from Death Obscura (2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2012: traveling light
“Traveling Light” by Linda Pastan from Traveling Light (2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2012: a dimension lost
“Is Love” by Maya Angelou from I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2012: toxic green tuxedos
“Killing Flies” by Michael Dickman from Flies (2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2012: haiku-esque
“Iowa, January” by Robert Hass from Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2012: the heat and howl of Dorothy Allison
“The Dorothy Allison Poem” by Robert McDonald from [PANK] Magazine (October 2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2012: a single strand
“Rune of the Finland Woman” by Marilyn Hacker from Assumptions (1985)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2012: Money.
“Money” by Richard Armour from William Leahy’s Fundamentals of Poetry (1963)
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2012: found poem
“Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out” by found poem by Charles Jensen (2012)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2012: alphabet aerobics
“Everything I Needed to Know” by Karl Elder from The Beloit Poetry Journal (Winter 2003)
“Don Dada on the Down Low Getting Godly in His Game: Between and Beyond Play and Prayer in the Abecedarius” by Matthea Harvey from American Poet magazine (Spring 2006)
“Alphabet Aerobics” by Blackalicious from A2G (1999)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2012: butterflies
“The Butterfly” by Nikki Giovanni from My House (1972)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2012: in spite of all
Endymion Book I (1818) by John Keats
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2012: [white field]
“How the mind works still for sure” by Jennifer Denrow from California (2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2012: 30 days, 30 grilled cheese
“American (cheese) the Beautiful” by Walt Howat for National Grilled Cheese Month
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2012: another beautiful failure
“The Vista” by C. Dale Young
Also “Ode to the Confederate Dead” by Allen Tate, “The Last Charge” by Donald Davidson, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2012: David Bowie wins Pulitzer
“Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” by Tracy K. Smith from Life on Mars: Poems (2011)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2012: fire, doves, river-water
“The Hour and What Is Dead” by Li-Young Lee from The City In Which I Love You (1990)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2012: The days are beautiful.
“Hum” by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2012: cricket song
“Splinter” by Carl Sandburg, included in Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2012: Concrete.
“Manhattan” by Howard Horowitz from The New York Times (August 30, 1997)
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2012: 3,500 dead birds
“Birds Again” by Jim Harrison
- Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2012: Earth took of earth
“Earth Took of Earth” by author unknown (circa 1000)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2012: fearful bravery
“Cowards die many times before their deaths” from Julius Caesar (1599)
by William Shakespeare
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2012: O frabjous day!
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2012: Is that a poem in your pocket?
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost from New Hampshire (1923),
also included in Collected Poems (1969)
Also Poem in Your Pocket Day by the Academy of American Poets
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2012: Blame Picasso.
“What Picasso Did To Me” by Julia Vinograd from Ask A Mask (1999)
- Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2012: Rich
“The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One” by Adrienne Rich
from Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2012: Sweeping
“How I Learned To Sweep” by Julia Alvarez from Helicon Nine magazine (1985),
also included in her collection Homecoming (1996)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2012: I must’ve dreamed I was gravity
“Dear Tiara” by Sean Thomas Dougherty from Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2012: No time
“End” by Langston Hughes, included in his Selected Poems (1959)
- 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)
- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2010
“The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden from Collected Poems (2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2010: On Cooking a Symbol at 400 Degrees
“On Cooking a Symbol at 400 Degrees” by Patty Seyburn from Poetry magazine (Feb. 2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2010: blooded, lobster, roses
“Better Read, A Valentine” by Daisy Fried from My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2010: we are here
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2010: entangled
“Empty-handed I entered the world” by Kozan Ichikyo (1360) from Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death compiled by Yoel Hoffmann
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2010: When whatever you want to do cannot be done
“Be Near Me” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, translated by Naomi Lazard, from The True Subject (1987)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2010: Was that–? Did she just–?
“Private Theatricals” by Louise Guiney (1861-1920) from Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire by Emma Donoghue (1997)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2010: Iron. Lust.
“Ghazal” by Emily Moore from The Yale Review, vol. 90, no. 1 (January 2002)
Also “Why Teachers Are Not Those Who Can’t” by Emily Moore from Newsweek (April 2, 2000)
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2010: fast transparency that explodes
“Poem to Fire” by Peter Campion from Other People (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2010: so close to what I mean
“Bilingual Sestina” by Julia Alvarez from The Other Side / El Otro Lado (1995)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2010: wet black arrow, long pink dangle
“Benevolence” by Tony Hoagland from Donkey Gospel (1998)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2010: self-collecting power
“The Snail”by William Cowper (1731-1800)
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2010: concentric shocks
“The Shampoo” by Elizabeth Bishop from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
- April 14 & 15 Poems-a-Days: the speed of moonlight
“Spring” and “Dress Rehearsal” by Chloë Honum from Poetry magazine (Nov. 2009)
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2010: made of ash
“Ash” by W.S. Merwin from Selected Poems (1988)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2010: Type B
“Giving Blood” by Sherman Alexie from This Business of Fancydancing (1992)
- Poem-a-Yesterday, April 18: a slip between letters
“Letter” by Natasha Trethewey from Native Guard (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2010: ‘Twas brillig
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll from Collected Stories
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2010: m&m&m&m
“maggie and milly and molly and may” by E.E. Cummings from The Complete Poems: 1904-1962
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2010
“Night Drive” by J. Allyn Rosser from Poetry magazine (Feb. 2010)
- Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2010: into the presence of still water
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry from Collected Poems 1957-1982
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2010: Bottom feeders? Please.
“Jubilee” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi from Apocalyptic Swing (2009)
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2010: in the mood for ghosts
“Record” by Katrina Vandenberg from Atlas (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2010: not admitting of the wound
“A great Hope fell,” by Emily Dickinson from The Complete Poems
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2010: Smut.
“It’s Smut” by Kevin McFadden from Hardscrabble (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2010: TOP-EST SECRET-EST BRAIN NEST
The Butter Battle Book (1984) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2010: What can I say? Another crow.
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost from New Hampshire (1923)
Also Collected Poems (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2010: cool.
“The Pool Players” by Gwendolyn Brooks from The Bean Eaters (1960)
Also The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2010: Death to Art
“Poem of the End” by Vasilisk Gnedov from Death to Art (1913)
- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2009: Is this a joke?
“One-Word Poem” by David R. Slavitt from William Henry Harrison and Other Poems (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2009: Sharks & Roses
“Reading Her Old Letter about a Wedding” by Craig Raine from The Onion, Memory (1978)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2009: Samurai Song
“Samarai Song” by Robert Pinsky from Jersey Rain (2000)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2009: Significadence ain’t random
“Las Brujitas” by Tracie Morris from intermission (1998)
Also Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2009: reading in the dark
“Hymn for Lota” by Elizabeth Bishop from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2009: reverie & remember
“Rose Colored City” by Major Jackson from Hoops (2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2009: 100% cotton
“The Shirt” by Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2009: The kraken ate my homework
“The Kraken” by Lord Alfred Tennyson from The Poetical Works (1873)
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2009: Something I’ve not done
“Something I’ve not done” by W.S. Merwin from The Second Four Books of Poems (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2009: half-red sea
“waiting on the mayflower, iii. march 1770” by Evie Shockley from half-red sea (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2009: a single strand
“Rune of the Finland Woman” by Marilyn Hacker from Assumptions (1985)
- Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2009: Berkeley Street Cannibals
“Ballad” by Julia Vinograd from Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976
- the small clumsy feet of April [13, Poem-a-Day]
“if i have made,my lady,intricate” by E.E. Cummings from Selected Poems (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2009: Oddly like grace
“What the Angels Left” by Marie Howe from The Good Thief (1987)
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2009: in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word
“Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden from Collected Poems (2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2009: Some rift between
“Myth” by Natasha Trethewey from Native Guard (2006)
- Poema-del-Dia, 17 de Abril: Corazon malherido
“La Guitarra” by Federico García Lorca from Selected Poems (bilingual edition, 2007)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2009: Un-humm-m! . . . Yes!
“Madam and the Phone Bill” by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems (1995)
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2009: Sonnet = dresser.
“Nothing in That Drawer” by Ron Padgett from Great Balls of Fire (1990)
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2009: this midnight moment’s forest
“The Thought-Fox” by Ted Hughes from Hawk in the Rain (1957)
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2009: Today is weather.
“Hum” by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
- Poem-a-Earth-Day, April 22, 2009: Long live the weeds
“Invernsaid” by Gerard Manley Hopkins from Poems (1918)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2009: Since it’s his birthday…
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” by William Shakespeare from Macbeth (1603-6)
- Dust [Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2009]
“How I Learned To Sweep” by Julia Alvarez from Homecoming (1996)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2009: Or every man be blind
“Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant” by Emily Dickinson from The Complete Poems
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2009: alone too, too alone
“28 – Snowline” by John Berryman from The Dream Songs (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2009: Made in Increments
“13/16” by Sherman Alexie from This Business of Fancydancing (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2009: The J Church Line
“The J Car” by Thom Gunn from The Man with Night Sweats (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2009: Do I dare disturb the universe?
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
- Where It Ends [Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2009]
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- 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)
- Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2007: Is this a joke?
“One-Word Poem” by David R. Slavitt from William Henry Harrison and Other Poems (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2007: with veins, without mirth
“Weight, In Passing” by Andrea Haslanger, unpublished (circa 2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2007: reading in the dark
“Hymn for Lota” by Elizabeth Bishop from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box (2006)
- Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2007: each lightbulb chooses a star
“The Converted” by Sophie Cabot Black from The Misunderstanding of Nature (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2007: wet black arrow, long pink dangle
“Benevolence” by Tony Hoagland from Donkey Gospel (1998)
- Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2007: 1,000 tulips burning in Amsterdam
“why things burn” by Daphne Gottlieb from Why Things Burn (2001)
- Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2007: after things burn
“Ash” by W.S. Merwin from Selected Poems (1988)
- Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2007: Down the rabbit hole
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll from Collected Stories
- Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2007: small civilities
“Anne” by Mary Oliver from New and Selected Poems (1992)
- Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2007: Audacity my roof
“Samarai Song” by Robert Pinsky from Jersey Rain (2000)
- Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2007: 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 12, 2007: mud-luscious & puddle-wonderful
“if i have made,my lady,intricate” by E.E. Cummings from Selected Poems (1994)
- Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2007: boca innumerable
“El viento en la isla” by Pablo Neruda from Los Versos del Capitan (1952)
- Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2007: dresses wider than doors
“House of Worth” by Robyn Schiff from Worth (2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2007: slip and sip, fib and rib
“Ghazal” by Emily Moore from The Yale Review, vol. 90, no. 1 (January 2002)
- Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2007: Save a day.
“Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost from Collected Poems (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2007: The towers are incidental.
“Hum” by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2007: pious rape
“Chaos” by Edna St. Vincent Millay from Collected Poems
- Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2007: the tender machines of fact
“Captivity Narrative” by Rick Barot from Want (2008)
- Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2007: shorter than haiku
“Downhill” by Julia Vinograd from Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976
- Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2007: Remember Sarah Stout
“Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout” by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2007: 100% cotton
“The Shirt” by Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2007: Since it’s his birthday…
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” by William Shakespeare from Macbeth (1603-6)
- Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2007: does your house have lions?
“what does a liver know of peace” by Sonia Sanchez from Does Your House Have Lions? (1997)
- Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2007: Hold one bead
“Object Tension” by Kathleen Peirce from Mercy (1991)
- Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2007: alone too, too alone
“28 – Snowline” by John Berryman from The Dream Songs (1969)
- Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2007: some distant trembling warmth
“From the Adult Drive-In” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi from The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005)
- Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2007: the smell of scissors
“What the Angels Left” by Marie Howe from The Good Thief (1987)
- Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2007: Un-hummm-m!
“Madam and the Phone Bill” by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems (1995)
- Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2007: what I always wish for
“The Wish” by Louise Glück from Meadowlands (1996)