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Poetry Per Diem: Juan Felipe Herrera’s Open
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 as the...
Poetry Per Diem: W.S. Merwin’s Homecoming
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 white...
Poetry Per Diem: Marilyn Nelson’s Dinah’s Lament
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. She say she can't go in...
Poetry Per Diem: Philip Levine’s The West Wind
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 past...
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