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POETRY TOWN NEWSLETTER

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These are the previous issues of Poetry Town.

AUGUST 2024​

1 Ellen Bass, For My Daughter on Her Twenty-First Birthday
2 Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain

​3 Lyuba Yakimchuk, Crow, Wheels

4 Wallace McRae, Reincarnation

5 D.C. Berry, On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High​

6 Karen Schubert, Non-Traditional Student​

7 George Bilgere, Robert Frost​

8 Tom Wayman, Did I Miss Anything?​

9 Billy Collins, Tension​

10 Fanny Howe, But I, Too, Want to Be a Poet​

11 Jane Hirshfield, For What Binds Us​

12 George Bilgere, Post-Olympics​

13 Louis Jenkins, Baloney​

14 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, The Golf Links​

15 Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact​

16 Ron Koertge, Grand Avenue​

17 F.J. Bergmann, An Apology​

18 Tony Hoagland, Little Champion​

19 Peter Harris, Will We Survive?​

20 Linda Hasselstrom, Clara: In the Post Office​

21​ Gillian Wegener, Nature Walk

22 David Hernandez, Sincerely, the Sky​

23 Thomas R. Smith, Trust​

24 Irene Blair Honeycutt, Blessing​

25 Sean Sexton, Untitled Poem​

26 Paul Violi, At the Cottage of Messer Violi​

27 Linda Gregg, A Dark Thing Inside the Day​

​28 George Bilgere, Little League

29 Naomi Shihab Nye, Generations

30 Charles Simic, The Partial Explanation

​31 Mary Mackey, My Methodist Grandmother Said

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SEPTEMBER 2024​

1 Joseph Mills, We’ve Had This Conversation Before

​2 Connie Wanek, A Sighting

3 Ann Iverson, Waves and Wet Kisses​

4 Greg Delanty, From Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury​

5​ Margaret S. Mullins, Lonely Harvest

6 Grace Paley, He Wanders​

7​ Dorinne Laux, Dark Charms

8 John Balaban, Passing through Albuquerque

9 Kirsten Dierking, In the Produce Aisle​​

10 Davi Walders, Anniversary ​

11 Charlotte Parsons, Nine-Eleven​

12 Kari Gunter-Seymour, ​When the DJ Plays Bad Company...

13 Thomas McGrath, Beyond the Red River​

14 Krista Lukas, The Day I Die​

15 Richard Wilbur, The Death of a Toad​

16  Theodore Deppe, The Russian Greatcoat​

17 David Lee, Loading a Boar​

18 Jane Attanucci, Falling​

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JULY 2024​

1 Kay Ryan, The Niagara River​
2 Donald Justice, Mrs. Snow
3 Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come
4 George Bilgere, Fourth of July​​
5 Margaret Atwood, Dancing
6 James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota​
​7 Ruth L. Schwartz, The Swan at Edgewater Park
8 Connie Wanek, Monopoly​
9 Charles Simic, The Great Horned Owl​
10 Derek Walcott, Map of the New World​
11 Carol Frost, The Haircut​
12 Miroslav Holub, Brief Reflection on Accuracy​
13 Jim Harrison, Warbler​
14 Naomi Shihab Nye, Bees Were Better​
15 Muriel Rukeyser, Waiting for Icarus​
16 Dana Gioia, Pity the Beautiful​
17 Larry Levis, The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.​
18 Kim Addonizio, What Do Women Want?​
19 Carol Ann Duffy, Mrs. Darwin​
20 Kevin Prufer, What I Gave the 20th Century ​
21 Thomas Lux, The War of Jenkins’ Ear​
22 Amy Clampitt, Beach Glass​
23 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle​
24 ​Louis Jenkins, My Ancestral Home
25 Czeslaw Milosz, And Yet the Books​
26 Marie Howe, Chainsaw​
27 James Crews, A Better Place​
28 Charles Simic, My Weariness of Epic Proportions​
29 Virginia Hamilton Adair, Where Did I Leave Off?​
30 Louise Bogan, The Dragonfly​
31 Stephen Dunn, The Arm​​
JUNE 2024
1 Alice N. Persons, Why I Have A Crush On You, UPS Man
2 Julie Cadwallader Staub, Reverence
3 Jim Daniels, Short-Order Cook
4 Simon Rae, The Lane
5 Eavan Boland, Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet
6 Michelle Y. Burke, Trick of the Light
7 Ruth Fainlight, The Mourner
8 Ted Kooser, Dishwater
9 Louis Jenkins, Earl
10 Denise Duhamel, How Are You?
11 Linda Pastan, 25th High School Reunion
12 Grace Cavalieri, How a Poem Begins
13 Tim Seibles, Delores Jepps
14 Genevieve Taggard, The Geraniums
15 Stephen Dunn, The Sacred
16 Lawrence Raab, The Band Was Still Playing
17 Ron Padgett, Jeopardy
18 Lisel Mueller, Monet Refuses the Operation
19 Dorianne Laux, The Shipfitter’s Wife
20 John Kenney, Family Vacation
21 Mark Halliday, Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts
22 Susan Howe, Brood
23 Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know
24 Billy Collins, The Death of the Hat
25 Wislawa Szymborska, Going Home
26 Cathy Smith Bowers, Groceries
27 Roger Craik, In the Playing Fields
28 Thomas Lux, The People of the Other Village
29 Amy Gerstler, Dear Boy George
30 Norman Stock, Thank You for the Helpful Comments

MAY 2024
12 Danusha Laméris, Cherries
13 Tony Hoagland, Barton Springs
14 Alison Luterman, The Insurrectionists Were Right
15 Tomas Tranströmer, Romanesque Arches
16 Marylen Grigas, Habitats
17 Eugene Datta, Amber
18 Todd Turnidge, Fallen
19 Maggie Smith, Good Bones
20 Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Akron at Night
21 Barbara Crooker, Then
22 Tim Nolan, Frank, Running Around the House
23 Grace Paley, In the Bus
24 Donald Hall, Summer Kitchen
25 Ellie Schoenfeld, I Ride Greyhound
26 Sinéad Morrissey, Genetics
27 George Bilgere, Memorial Day
28 Shari Wagner The Farm Wife
29 Chanda Feldman, Money Tree
30 Susan Donnelly, Moondog
31 Sharon Olds, 35/10

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