POETRY TOWN NEWSLETTER

MAY 2025

1 Lowell Jaeger, After Second Shift

2 Gail Mazur, Genealogy​

3 Marjorie Saiser, Last Day of Kindergarten​

4 Faith Shearin, My Grandparents’ Generation​

5 Terri Kirby Erickson, Ice Cream Truck​

6 David Ignatow, I Close My Eyes​

7 Louis Jenkins, Cult Following​

8 Danusha Laméris, Improvement​

9 Charles Brice, Stinky​

10 Jonathan Greene, Summer Trips​

11 George Bilgere, Schwinn​

12 Thomas Lux, “I Love You Sweatheart”​

13 Nin Andrews, Melvin​

14 Donald Hall, The Coffee Cup​

15 Jeffrey Harrison, Temple​

16 Kevin Carey, Reading to My Kids​

17 Andrew Gent, History​

18 Tony Hoagland, Jet​

19 Susan Dworski Nusbaum, The Substitute​

20 Marie Howe, Prayer​

21 Michael Simms, Who Will Tell Them?​

22 Denise Duhamel, Poem in Which My Mother Snapped​

23 Deborah Garrison, Into the Lincoln Tunnel​

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APRIL 2025

1 Philip Larkin, The Trees

2 Barbara Crooker, Tomorrow​

​3 John Kenney, Are You in the Mood?

4 Ernest Hartsock, Strange Splendor

5 Czeslaw Milosz, Encounter​

6 Terrance Hayes, What I Am​

7 Ron Padgett, The Stapler​

​8 Reed Whittemore, The Lovers

9 Jeanie Greensfelder, Birth and Death​

10 Tomas Tranströmer, Allegro​

11 Ada Limón, How to Triumph Like a Girl​

12 Connie Wanek, Umbrella​

13 Tim Seibles, Naïve​

14 Mark Nepo, Not According to Plan​

15 Elizabeth Kuhn, Bathrooms​

16 Ellen Bass, The Thing Is​

17 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias​

18 Dorianne Laux, Dust​

​19 Kim Stafford, For the Bird Singing Before Dawn

20 Bill Holm, Sparrows​

21 Linda Pastan, Bess​

22 Louise Glück, Nostos​

​23 Dana Gioia, Summer Storm

24 Alicia Ostriker, Song​

25 Gavin Ewart, Sonnet: Daffodils​

26 Fleur Adcock, The Three-toed Sloth​

27 Philip Larkin, Travellers​

​28 Jack Ridl, From Our House to Your House

29 Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Work​

​30 Carl Dennis, The God Who Loves You

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MARCH 2025

1 Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Aanabhrandhanmar Means “Mad About Elephants”

2 Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

3 Robert Frost, Unharvested

4 Wesley McNair, The Rules of the New Car

5 ​​Jim Harrison, The Bear

6 Jeffrey Harrison, Interval​

7 William Meredith, Marriage Tree​

8 George Bilgere, The Forge​

9 ​Mark Halliday, Quite Frankly

10 Marcus Jackson, Whereabouts​

11 Lynn Powell, Acceptance Speech​

12 David Wagoner, The Escaped Gorilla​

13 Maxine Kumin, Game​

14 Carol Ann Duffy, Tea​

​15 Ann Higgins, Cherry Tomatoes​

16 Wendy Cope, A Reading​

17 John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer​

18 W.H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant​

19 Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Afraid So​

20 Sara Littlecrow-Russell, Apology to the Wasps​

21 Thomas Lux, Ode to the Joyful Ones​​

22 Billy Collins, Hippos on Holiday​

23 Naomi Shihab Nye, What Is Supposed to Happen​

24 Joseph Stroud, Knots​

25 C.G. Hanzlicek, Egg​

26 Brian Bilston, Refugees

27 Wislawa Szymborska, Vermeer​

28 Tom Hennen, Plains Spadefoot Toad​

29 Simon Armitage, Hercules​

30 James Wright, A Blessing​

31 James Crews, Love What Comes​​