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.

• Alexander, Elizabeth: Rally
• 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; Postlude and Prequel
• Atwood, Margaret: The Explorers (Thoughts on Stafford (and Atwood)); Siren Song (Thoughts on Tennyson/Atwood)
• Belieu, Erin: When at a Certain Party in NYC
• Blumenthal, Michael: The Tip of the Iceberg
• Booth, Philip: How to See Deer
• Carroll, Lewis: [How Doth the Little Crocodile]
• Cohen, Leonard: Warning
• Collins, Billy: Embrace
• 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)
• Dunbar, Paul Lawrence: Sympathy
• Eliot, T.S.: Journey of the Magi
• Equi, Elaine: A Story Begins
• Everson, William: These Are the Ravens
• Frost, Robert: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (on Frost); Sir, Say No More; Acquainted with the Night
• Glück, Louise: The Gift
• Gutstein, Daniel: Monsieur Pierre est mort
• Herrrick, Robert: To the Virgins
• Hughes, Langston: April Rain Song
• Joseph, Allison: Notebooks
• Kees, Weldon: Crime Club
• Kenyon, Jane: Let Evening Come
• Komunyakaa, Yusef: A Voice on an Answering Machine
• Kumin, Maxine: Truth
• Lindsay, Sarah: Hollow Boom Soft Chime: The Thai Elephant Orchestra
• Lowell, Amy: A Lover
• Merrill, James: A Narrow Escape
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
• 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
• Pierce, Catherine: Postcards from Her Alternate Lives
• Pollitt, Katha: Angels
• Pound, Ezra: A Pact
• Rich, Adrienne: For an Album
• Rilke, Ranier Maria: The Wait; Soap Bubbles
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington: The Mill
• Roethke, Theodore: The Waking
• Rossetti, Christina: Remember
• Ruefle, Mary: Provenance
• Saigyō: Cherry Petals; You Can Tell; [Why should my heart]; [How the Owner]
• 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
• Spalding, Susan Marr: Fate
• 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; Burning a Book; At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
• Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Land of Counterpane (Thoughts on Stevenson)
• Strand, Mark: Make Believe Ballroom Time; Breath
• Unknown: If You but Knew
• Voight, Ellen Bryant: Storm
• Watts: Quarrelling
• Whitman, Walt: O Captain! My Captain (Thoughts on Whitman)
• Willard, Nancy: Science Fiction
• Williams, William Carlos: This Is Just to Say
• Wordsworth, William: To Sleep
• Yeats, William Butler: Lines Written in Dejection; Leda and the Swan; The Second Coming