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POETRY TOWN NEWSLETTER

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These are the 2025 issues of Poetry Town. Click here for the 2024 issues.

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

MARCH 2025

1 Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Aanabhrandhanmar Means “Mad About Elephants”

Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Robert Frost, Unharvested

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

FEBRUARY 2025

1 James Tate, Treason

2 Harvey Shapiro, New York Notes

3 Naomi Shihab Nye, The Time

4 Jared Carter, Early Warning

5 Billy Collins, Adam Names the Fish

6 June Robertson Beisch, Lobster

7 Marilyn Donnelly, On Mondays

8 Barbara Quick, The Bread My Mother Gave Me

9 Charles Wright, 15

10 Thomas Lux, A Streak of Blood That Once Was a Tiny Red Spider

11 Connie Wanek, Girdle

12 ​Grace Cavalieri, Tomato Pies, 25 Cents

13 Faith Sheirin, Picking the Kitten

14 Kim Dower, They’re Taking Chocolate Milk Off the Menu

15 Ramon Montaigne, On the Beach

16 Richard Wilbur, A Barred Owl

17 Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Bus Stop

18 William Notter, Half-Rack at the Rendezvous

19 Tony Hoagland, Field Guide

20 Michael Milburn, To My Son’s Girlfriend

21 Simon Armitage, Evening

22 David Budbill, What We Need

23 Dan Gerber, Only This Morning

24 Margaret Hasse, What the Window Washers Did

25 Paul Hostovsky, Gauguin’s Grandson

26 ​Galway Kinnell, Promissory Note

27 Beverly Rollwagen, Up and Down

28 ​David Lehman, February 7

JANUARY 2025

1 Annie Lighthart, The Hundred Names of Love

Charles Bukowski, the great escape

3 Michael Ryan, When I Was Conceived

4 Twyla Hansen, For No Good Reason

5 Sally Fisher, Where I Come From

6 Patrick Phillips, The Singing

7 Olivia Stiffler, Grandchildren

8 Jennifer Maier, Love at First Sight

9 Alarie Tennille, In the Beginning

10 Robyn Sarah, Riveted

11 Mark Halliday, Chicken Salad

12 Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World

13 John Ashbery, Composition

14 Daniel Hoffman, Ants

15 Ross Gay, Wedding Poem

16 John Arthur, Wayfare

17 June Robertson Beisch, The Titanic

18 Jeanne Lohmann, Reminders

19 Robert Bernard Hass, Siren

20 R.S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet

21 George Bilgere, Zero

22 Donald Hall, Old Timer’s Day

23 Malena Mörling, For Bartleby

24 Sebastian Matthews, American Image

25 Robert Phillips, The Changed Man

26 Louis Jenkins, A Disappointment

27 Miller Williams, Love Poem with Toast

28 Gary Johnson, Montana

29 John Updike, Slum Lords

30 Anne Stevenson, Living in America

31 Kevin Griffith, Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange

2024 Poetry Town Issues here

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