George Bilgere
poetry & readings
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These are the previous issues of Poetry Town.
DECEMBER 2024
1 Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Unable to find
2 Jane Hirschfield, Tree
3 Robert Phillips, Headlines
4 Ken Hada, Flagman on a Road Crew
5 Valentina Gnup, The Language of Waitresses, 1979
6 Charles Harper Webb, Summer of ’62
7 Fleur Adcock, Things
8 Robin Behn, In That Year
9 Stanley Kunitz, End of Summer
10 Allison Joseph, Elegy for the Personal Letter
11 George Bilgere, The Scar
NOVEMBER 2024
1 Sarah Freligh, Old Flame
2 Sharon Olds, Primitive
3 Stephen Dunn, The Inheritance
4 Danusha Laméris, Names
5 Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
6 Eve Robillard, Everything Happens Twice
7 Paul Martin, The First Voyages Out
8 Maxine Cassin, My Captain
9 Wislawa Szymborska, The Kindness of the Blind
10 Jessica Gigot, Amends
11 Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
12 Nina Cassian, Temptation
13 Jo McDougall, Mammogram
14 June Robertson Beisch, To a Young Son
15 Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
16 Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo
17 Louis Jenkins, The Big Bang
18 Elizabeth Alexander, Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
19 James Tate, Suburban Bison
20 David Budbill, Winter: Tonight: Sunset
21 Kelley Jean White, Pandora
22 Joyce Sutphen, Guys Like That
23 Jean Nordhaus, To Hold
24 Richard Cecil, Internal Exile
25 Raymond Carver, Soda Crackers
26 Catherine Doty, Yes
27 Billy Collins, Breakfast
28 John Updike, Relatives
29 Richard Newman, Four Kids Pissing Off the Overpass after a Cardinals Game
30 Jericho Brown, Odd Jobs
OCTOBER 2024
1 BIlly Collins, What She Said
2 J.R. Solonche, The Poem of the Future
3 Donna Masini, Slowly
4 Connie Wanek, Talking to Dad
5 William Heath, The Vet
6 Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
7 Heather Swan, Boy
8 Barbara Crooker, This Summer Day
9 Maggie Smith, First Fall
10 George Bilgere, Europe
11 AE Hines, What Did You Imagine Would Grow?
12 Howard Nemerov, The Consent
13 José A. Alcántara, Archilochus Colubris
14 Kelle Groom, Oldest Map of the World
15 John Ashbery, Myrtle
16 Laura Foley, What Stillness
17 Neal Bowers, Cryptography
18 Nathan Spoon, Poem of Thankfulness
19 Seamus Heaney, The Forge
20 Jim Daniels, American Cheese
21 Robert S. Foote, An Interruption
22 Maxine Kumin, Morning Swim
23 Tom Chandler, Hard Music
24 Philip Larkin, Talking in Bed
25 Louise Glück, All Hallows
26 Ruth Stone, Train Ride
27 Marie Howe, Walking Home
28 David Kirby, Taking It Home to Jerome
29 Joseph Mills, Turning
30 Mary K. Stillwell, Moving to Malibu
31 Ron Wallace, Blessings
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
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
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
19 Rozel Hunt, Fabulous Pizza
20 John Donoghue, In the Design Review Meeting He Said
21 Marjorie Saiser, She Gives Me the Watch off Her Arm
22 Peter Makuck, Toward Paris
23 Steve Straight, Imperfection
24 Sue Ellen Thompson, Sewing
25 Dana Gioia, The Road
26 Thomas Hardy, A Thunderstorm in Town
27 Tony Hoagland, Meadow
28 Kay Ryan, Blandeur
29 Frank O’Hara, Autobiographia Literaria
30 Brian Bilston, America Is a Gun