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.

2011 Poems

• A Story That Could Be True – William Stafford (Thoughts on Stafford)
• Cherry Petals – Saigyō
• To Sleep – William Wordsworth
• Earliest Spring – Carmine Sarracino(Thoughts on Sarracino)
• [Colors, where they existed] – Tammy Dotts (Comments on an original poem)
• A Letter on the Lake – Carl Dennis
• Make Believe Ballroom Time – Mark Strand
• A Narrow Escape – James Merrill
• Warning – Leonard Cohen
• The Waning Moon – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Explorers – Margaret Atwood
• Ask Me – William Stafford (Thoughts on Stafford (and Atwood))
• No I Don’t – John Ashbery(Thoughts on Ashbery)
• Lines Written in Dejection – William Butler Yeats
• O Captain! My Captain – Walt Whitman (Thoughts on Whitman)
• Vienna – Tammy Dotts
• Storm Windows – Howard Nemerov
• You Can Tell – Saigyō
• Having a Coke with You – O’Hara
• Hillside - Mortensen (Thoughts on Mortensen)
•  The Tip of the Iceberg – Blumenthal
• Let Evening Come – Kenyon
• Sonnet XXIX – Shakespeare
• I Have Dreamed of You So Much – Desnos
• The Gun – Dobyns
• April Rain Song – Hughes
• Remember – Rossetti
• The Wait – Rilke
• The Painter – Ashbery
• Our Story – Stafford

2012 Poems

• The Epitaph Ending in And – Stafford
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Frost (on Frost)
• The Waking – Roethke
• Soap Bubbles – Rilke
• Snowfall – Dotts
• The Hospital Ships – Sarracino
• [How Doth the Little Crocodile] – Carroll
• [Why should my heart] - Saigyō
• The Grapevine – Ashbery
• Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry – Nemerov
• Ulysses – Tennyson
• Siren Song – Atwood (Thoughts on Tennyson/Atwood)
• Breath – Strand
• Keepsake – Mortensen
• Leda and the Swan – Yeats
• The Land of Counterpane – Stevenson (Thoughts on Stevenson)
• How to See Deer – Booth
• To the Virgins – Herrick
• Fog – Sandburg
• Science Fiction – Willard
• Monsieur Pierre est mort – Gutstein
• Bedtime Story – Simic
• The Road Not Taken – Frost
• Storm – Voight
• Memoir – Seshadri
• For an Album – Rich
• Trapped – Dotts (Thoughts on Trapped)
• Truth – Kumin
• And Some Were Playing Cards – Ashbery
• Old Dog – Stafford