MARCH 2026
1 Simon Armitage, The Shout
2 John Stone, Walking the Dog on the Night before He Is to Be Fixed
3 Kenneth Rexroth, Open the Blind
4 Stephen Dobyns, No Map
5 John Updike, Island Cities
6 Emily Dickinson, How happy is the little Stone…
7 Billy Collins, The Chairs That No One Sits In
8 Dana Gioia, The Present
9 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Afternoon on a Hill
10 Luci Shaw, Revival
11 Marjorie Saiser, I Didn’t Think I Would
12 Sneha Madhavan-Reese, To Thousand Island
13 Thomas Lux, Refrigerator, 1957
14 Melinda Burns, Cold
15 Valentina Gnup, Song from the Third Floor
16 Rosie King, Old South School
17 Ray McNiece, His Poem

FEBRUARY 2026
1 Jo McDougall, Paying Attention
2 Stanley Kunitz, Touch Me
3 Robert Morgan, Rearview Mirror
4 Gary Snyder, We Make Our Vows Together with All Beings
5 Jim Dodge, Mahogany China
6 Frank O’Hara, Today
7 Stuart Kestenbaum, Starting the Subaru at Five Below
8 Carrie Fountain, Heaven
9 Robert Phillips, Skyscrapers
10 John Arthur, America’s Favorite Playground
11 Vachel Lindsay, The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
12 Tony Hoagland, Fortune
13 Tracy K. Smith, My God, It’s Full of Stars
14 George Bilgere, How I Met Your Mother
15 Jim Daniels, The Crucial Lack of Redemption
16 Natasha Trethewey, Graveyard Blues
17 Thomas Hardy, I Look Into My Glass
18 Billy Collins, The Collar
19 Connie Wanek, Tag
20 Al Ortolani, Asphalt
21 Robert Winner, The Instrument
22 James Tate, The Promotion
23 Jack Ridl, The Reunion
24 M.S. Merwin, To This May
25 Jim Garrett, To Avalon
26 Arthur Sze, Xeriscape
27 Eugene Datta, The Foot from Bhuj
28 Pamela Gemin, To the Doe Last Seen Running Up the South Exit Ramp Toward Wal-Mart Plaza