Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Ada Limón Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow’s open flame. Help me to not…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio DARKENING, THEN BRIGHTENING The sky keeps lying to the farmhouse, lining up its heavy clouds above the blue table umbrella, then launching them…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Kim Dower HE SAID I WROTE ABOUT DEATH and I didn’t mean to, this was not my intent. I meant to say how I loved…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading (I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I’m in the process…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: John Ashbery AT NORTH FARM Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck —after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever,…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Danez Smith not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Franz Wright —in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Elizabeth Bradfield PURSUIT —for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan Provincetown, September All summer, town kids pose at the edge of the pier named after you…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Christine Garren THE WOVEN MESSAGE come hide near me I’ll count however long I need to count the insects in the web— I like the…
Poem of the Day Series, Reading Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz SELF-PORTRAIT I did not want my body Spackled in the world’s Black beads and broke Diamonds. What the world Wanted, I did not….
