Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Juan Felipe Herrera’s book of poems titled Every Day We Get More Illegal. Open as the leaf as the sidewalk as the tear & the iris...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from W. S. Merwin’s book of poems titled The Moon Before Morning. Homecoming Once only when the summer was nearly over and my own hair had been...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Marilyn Nelson’s book of poems titled Fortune’s Bones. Dinah’s Lament Miss Lydia doesn’t clean the Doctor room....
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Philip Levine’s book of poems titled Breath. The West Wind When the winter wind moves through the ash trees in my yard I hear the...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Tina Cane’s book of poems titled Once More with Feeling. A Minor History of Bodega More a mindset the bodega was where you could get...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Mark Strand’s book of poems titled Blizzard of One. The View This is the place. The chairs are white. The table shines. The person...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Eavan Boland’s book of poems titled New Collected Poems. A Ballad of Home How we kissed in our half built-house! It was slightly...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Robert Bly’s book of poems titled What Have I Ever Lost By Dying? A Box Turtle The orange stripes on his head shootforward into the...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Seamus Heaney’s book of poems titled The Spirit Level. Postscript And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare,...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April! Today’s poem is from Natalie Diaz’ book of poems titled Postcolonial Love Poem. Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera I had a few days left of my stay...
