Poetry Month

In April 2011, I posted a poem (and occasional comments) every day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The tradition of a poem a day continues, and you’ll find the collection here.

Enjoy.

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses (Thoughts on Tennyson/Atwood)
• Ashbery, John: No I Don’t (Thoughts on Ashbery); The Painter; The Grapevine; And Some Were Playing Cards
• Atwood, Margaret: The Explorers (Thoughts on Stafford (and Atwood)); Siren Song (Thoughts on Tennyson/Atwood)
• Blumenthal, Michael: The Tip of the Iceberg
• Booth, Philip: How to See Deer
• Carroll, Lewis: [How Doth the Little Crocodile]
• Cohen, Leonard: Warning
• Dennis, Carl: A Letter on the Lake
• Desnos, Robert: I Have Dreamed of You So Much
• Dobyns, Stephen: The Gun
• Dotts, Tammy: [Colors, where they existed] (Comments on an original poem); Vienna; Snowfall; Trapped (Thoughts on Trapped)
• Frost, Robert: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (on Frost)
• Gutstein, Daniel: Monsieur Pierre est mort
• Herrrick, Robert: To the Virgins
• Hughes, Langston: April Rain Song
• Kenyon, Jane: Let Evening Come
• Kumin, Maxine: Truth
• Merrill, James: A Narrow Escape
• Mortensen, Viggo: Hillside (Thoughts on Mortensen); Keepsake
• Nemerov, Howard: Storm Windows; Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry
• O’Hara, Frank: Having a Coke with You
• Rich, Adrienne: For an Album
• Rilke, Ranier Maria: The Wait; Soap Bubbles
• Roethke, Theodore: The Waking
• Rossetti, Christina: Remember
• Saigyō: Cherry Petals; You Can Tell; [Why should my heart]
• Sandburg, Carl: Fog
• Sarracino, Carmine: Earliest Spring (Thoughts on Sarracino); The Hospital Ships
• Seshardi, Vijay: Memoir
• Shakespeare, William: Sonnet XXIX
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Waning Moon
• Simic, Charles: Bedtime Story
• Stafford, William: Ask Me (Thoughts on Stafford (and Atwood)); A Story That Could Be True (Thoughts on Stafford); Our Story; The Epitaph Ending in And; Old Dog
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Land of Counterpane (Thoughts on Stevenson)
• Strand, Mark: Make Believe Ballroom Time; Breath
• Voight, Ellen Bryant: Storm
• Whitman, Walt: O Captain! My Captain (Thoughts on Whitman)
• Willard, Nancy: Science Fiction
• Wordsworth, William: To Sleep
• Yeats, William Butler: Lines Written in Dejection; Leda and the Swan