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October 1, 2011
October is here, and we couldn’t be further from National Poetry Month. At this point, April is but a speck on the distant horizon, we’ve lost radio contact, and even the most steadfastly optimistic are starting to worry she’ll never return. But take heart, dear reader. April may be far away, but poetry never left. […]
April 30, 2011
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms […]
April 29, 2011
why some people be mad at me sometimes by Lucille Clifton they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. This poem selected by Olivia M. (Reader’s Services) Poetry Copyright Notice
April 28, 2011
Baggage by Deborah Warren Don’t tell me you expect to find a guy who comes with just a daypack. That’s enough to date on, maybe, but — to marry on? You’re bothered by a little freight? But why? Give me a man who’s travelling with stuff, with serious luggage, not just carry-on — whole skeletons […]
April 27, 2011
Anti-Love Poem by Grace Paley Sometimes you don’t want to love the person you love you turn your face away from that face whose eyes lips might make you give up anger forget insult steal sadness of not wanting to love turn away then turn away at breakfast in the evening don’t lift your eyes […]
April 26, 2011
His Future as Attila the Hun by Timothy Donnelly But when I try to envision what it might be like to live detached from the circuitry that suffers me to crave what I know I’ll never need, or what I need but have in abundance already, I feel the cloud of food-court breakfast […]
April 25, 2011
Charlotte Digregorio is an award-winning author, teacher, and poet in the traditional Japanese form of haiku. Her poetry has been featured in such publications as Modern Haiku, frogpond, The University of Chicago Magazine, bottle rockets, and Shamrock Haiku Journal, and as Midwest Regional Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America, the Winnetka resident works tirelessly […]
April 25, 2011
The Lady’s Reward by Dorothy Parker Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as trenchant and as gay […]
April 24, 2011
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in […]
April 23, 2011
Sonnet XXV by William Shakespeare Let those who are in favor with their stars Of public honor and proud titles boast, Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars, Unlooked for joy in that I honor most. Great princes’ favorites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun’s eye; And in themselves […]
