April is National Poetry Month!

Write on!   If you are not subscribed to “poem a day” sites, this is a good month to start.  I particularly enjoy Knopf’s site, which not only posts a poem a day for April, but has links to other poets posting their work, and an invitation to post your work.   Knopf, Poetry  (http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/)  Many [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 30

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by David Michael Nixon. **** Denise Levertov Living The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 29

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Ann C. Putnam. **** Stanley Kunitz Quinnapoxet I was fishing in the abandoned reservoir back in Quinnapoxet, where the snapping turtles cruised and the [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 28

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by John Roche. **** W. B. Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus I WENT out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 27

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Paulette Swartzfager. **** Howard Nemerov Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 26

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Donna M. Marbach. **** William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 25

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Wynne McClure. **** Ezra Pound Liu Ch’e The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the court-yard, There is no sound of foot-fall, [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 24

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Wanda Schubmehl. **** Paul Celan Deathfugue Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 23

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Debby Rosenfeld. **** Jan Steckel Ace Ace took a spin in a Cabriolet. Incautious capriole. His sobriquet betrayed the gambler in him yet. [...]

April is the Coolest Month – Just Poets Favorite Poem for April 22

As part of National Poetry Month, Just Poets members will share their favorite poems along with a brief note about why the poem is their favorite poem. Today’s poem is selected by Tricia Asklar. **** Agha Shahid Ali Tonight Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar – Laurence Hope Where are you now? Who lies beneath [...]