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

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